Despite holding one of the most emblematic collections of 20th century western art in Japan, Chiba Prefecture’s Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art is now facing serious threats of dissolution. Located 50 minutes from Tokyo by train, the museum was initially opened in 1990 by Katsumi Kawamura, the then president of Dainippon Ink and Chemicals (DIC).
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The old adage claims that all roads lead to Rome, and now, so too does the UNESCO World Heritage List. At the latest annual meeting of the World Heritage Committee, Italy's Via Appia (or ‘Appian Way’) joined 23 other cultural and natural sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
A representation of harmony and amity, the peace sign today is often correlated with anti-war beliefs. However, this signature icon would never have come to fruition if it weren’t for its emergence during World War II. The design of the peace symbol was directly influenced by naval semaphore code. Similar to morse code, seafarers would hold flags at different angles and positions to communicate with other ships across the water.
Kenny Schachter is a polymath of sorts with a multitude of interests and skills that have guided him in the arts. As a collector, curator, artist, lecturer, and writer, he has used information gathering and personal experience to create and comment on global, political, and art world-centric visual discourse.
Precursor of modernism and founder of the impressionist school, Claude Monet rendered approximately 250 oil paintings of his water lilies from 1896 to 1920.
Ballet played a formative role in the life of gallerist Susan Eisner Eley. In an interview with Art & Object, Eley explained, “I danced through my entire childhood. I danced through school. But when I majored in Art History at Brown University, it was a discovery. I knew this was it!”
The light in the room glows yellow. Sounds are muffled, except for the familiar four-note bass line. Pixelated aliens rain down from the top of the screen. I shoot, but am quickly defeated by Space Invaders. I am not in an amusement arcade, nor in a pub. I am in a museum surrounded by people whose ages range from 5 to 80 years old. The excitement belongs to children and teenagers; the nostalgia to those over 30.
Upon hearing the word “orange,” what comes to mind first— the color or the fruit? If you answered “fruit,” your thoughts align with the origin of the English word.
One of the art world’s rising stars, Paris and NYC-based French painter Alexandre Lenoir (1992) captivates audiences with his otherworldly, mysterious creations of paint and masking tape.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s one and only skyscraper is officially for sale less than two years after it was purchased by private investors in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The Price Tower, a 19-story project originally designed in the mid-1920s, was once intended for New York, but the Great Depression stunted those plans from ever moving forward.
