Art Movez

A 14-year-old boy has committed suicide by leaping from the Vessel, Thomas Heatherwick’s spiraling climbable structure in New York’s Hudson Yards development, prompting operators of the 150ft-tall attraction to close it down yet again. Read on our website to learn more! #NewYork

By Art Matters, the long-awaited Hangzhou contemporary art museum backed by fashion brand JNBY cofounders Li Lin and Wu Jian and helmed by US-based Italian curator Francesco Bonami, has announced its November 2021 opening exhibition A Show About Nothing" #artmovez #brooklyn

Joining recent moves by European museums to return African art treasures to Nigeria, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced today that is sending three objects back to the country.: artmovez.net/?p=3980 #artmovez #artmovez #africanart

New York culture department announces three new projects as part of City Artist Corps programme: artmovez.net/?p=3977 #artmovez #artnewz #artsocialjustice

Shine bright: American Museum of Natural History unveils a years-long revamp of its prized gems and minerals hall: artmovez.net/?p=3974 #artmovez #artnewz #museumart

Minneapolis Institute of Art announces over $19m in gifts, including funds for a diversity officer, Latin American curator and deputy director: artmovez.net/?p=3970 #artmovez #artnewz #artsocialjustice

Responsible for green spaces that still provide respite to city dwellers around the world, designer Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect known as the ‘Queen of Green’, has died, aged 99: artmovez.net/?p=3967 #artmovez #artnewz

Plywood boards used to shutter New York shops are transformed into canvases for local artists: artmovez.net/?p=3963 #artmovez #artnewz #NewYork

John Sims's current exhibition confronts the symbols of white supremacy and visual terrorism: artmovez.net/?p=3960 #artmovez #artnewz #blackart

Artist Khaled Jarrar is selling handfuls of soil from Palestinian farmland—and has turned them into NFTs: artmovez.net/?p=3956 #artmovez #artnewz #palestine

Hermitage Amsterdam close to reaching €1m in urgent crowdfunding appeal to survive Covid-19 crisis: artmovez.net/?p=3952 #artmvoez #artnewz #covid19 #amsterdan

Submerged ancient cities, rows of amphorae from the fifth century BC, anchors from Byzantine shipwrecks, War aircrafts: Greek seas harbour a unique heritage that is gradually becoming accessible to the public. #artmovez #Artnewz #greece #art #museum artmovez.net/?p=3949

Bombings have halted classes at an art school in Gaza, however, creation prevails amid destruction: artmovez.net/?p=3946 #artmovez #artnewz #Gaza

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) says it has recruited the first woman and person of color to serve as chief curatorial and conservation officer: E. Carmen Ramos #artmovez #Artnewz #nationalgalleryofart #poc #women #art artmovez.net/?p=3943

'Very aggressive and violent from the start': Palestinian artist films police crackdown in Israeli city of Haifa: artmovez.net/?p=3940 #artmovez #artnewz #Palestine

Amid a general acknowledgment of its links to a fraught local history of exploiting Indigenous peoples, the Met announced today that it had installed a bronze plaque on its Fifth Avenue façade recognizing the Lenape. #artnewz #artmovez #themet #nyc artmovez.net/?p=3937

James Turrell's newest Skyspace will be installed on a hillside in Green Mountain Falls later this summer in the Colorado mountains: artmovez.net/?p=3931 #artnewz #artmovez #jamesturrell #greenbox

A statue looted from Libya in 2011 has been handed over to the Libyan Embassy in London after experts from the British Museum (BM) helped identify the piece. #artmovez #artnewz #libya #britishmuseum #art #sculpture artmovez.net/?p=3928

As a Sotheby’s auction looms, scholars protest Newark Museum of Art’s plan to sell a Thomas Cole painting and other works: artmovez.net/?p=3925 #artmovez #artnewz #artsocialjustice #thomascole #newarkmuseum