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Peer inside Shanghai’s St. Nicholas, an Orthodox church from 1932, and you won’t see pews or traditional iconography. Thanks to architectural firm Wutopia Lab, the renovated building now serves as a shrine to verse. Titled “Church in Church,” the 388 square-meter structure holds Sinan Books Poetry Store, which boasts more than 1,000 volumes written in multiple languages. They’re displayed on steel...

The Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague has published the results of the scientific analysis of one of its main treasures - the painting "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" (c. 1665) by Jan Vermeer. The research project "Girl in the spotlight" took place for two weeks in early 2018. An international group of conservatives, scientists, and researchers studied...

May 6 celebrated 164 years since the birth of Sigmund Freud - the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method of treatment of mental illness, as well as the theory explaining human behavior. In honor of this, USA Art News remembers his statements about anxiety, individuality, and life. The scale of your personality is determined by the magnitude of the problem, which is able to piss you off. Before you...

An international anti-trafficking operation has recovered more than 19,000 stolen artifacts, including rare coins, fossils, artworks, and antiques. The coordinated crackdown involved 300 separate investigations and resulted in 101 arrests, according to a press release published by Interpol, Europol and the World Customs Organization, who jointly led the operation. Targeting artifacts looted from war-afflicted countries or taken from museums and archaeological sites, the push to...

Now in its eighth consecutive year, Platforms Project is the international show that indicatively charts the art currently produced through collective initiatives by young artists on the international scene as they join forces to seek answers to contemporary artistic questions. In recent weeks, the whole world has been experiencing rapid developments around the COVID-19 pandemic. Platforms Project, taking seriously into...

Millions of people come to New York every year for a variety of reasons, from business and shopping to an extraordinary collection of museums. It's not for nothing that New York is called the world capital of art, as the number of museums, galleries, and unique expositions here is amazing. New York is a city of endless possibilities, including the...

Banksy has unveiled a new artwork in Southampton General Hospital depicting a nurse as a superhero. The piece, titled Game Changer, can be seen on Level C of the building and was made as a thank you to staff for their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic. Following its unveiling, the enigmatic street artist left a note for hospital workers, which read: “I hope this brightens the place up a...

Art is a form of artistic reflection on reality. It reflects, like a mirror, the world around it. Changes in society, hopes for the future, technological breakthroughs - all this changes the face of modernity and with it our understanding of life. People of art, being endowed with sensitive nature, subtly notice all these changes and imprint their experience...

“O Cavalo Preto” (2020) by Alex Senna. All images couretesy of Void Projects, shared with permission Similar to other muralists, Copenhagen-based artist Jacoba Niepoort was preparing for a busy period full of travel and public projects when COVID-19 canceled all of her plans. “I had been dreaming of methods for connecting individual, like-minded creatives who share common dreams within this multi-layered/directional world of...

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