Westchester Artists

Internationally Acclaimed Architects and Artists at the Venice Architecture Biennale

VENICE.- The Venice Biennale, which has its offices in Ca' Giustinian (San Marco, 1364/A), has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organising international events in contemporary arts. It is world-beating for the International Film Festival, for the International Art Exhibition and for the International Architecture Exhibition, and continues the great tradition of the Festival of Contemporary Music, the Theatre...

Large, Space-filling Installations by Italian Artist Monica Bonvicini Fill Kunsthalle Fridericianum

KASSEL.- Monica Bonvicini is one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her often large-scale installations invite the public to direct participation. Since the mid-1990s she has made videos, sculptures, drawings and text-based works that explore and redefine the notions of space, architecture and power, and deal with political issues often by questioning the very essence of art production. Since the beginning of her career Bonvicini’s works have been distinguished by her sharp wit and directness. In her art, Monica Bonvicini raises issues regarding...

The Ancient Palace Museum Visited by AKN Editor As A Tourist

ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites in...

Egypt’s Antiquities Department Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Oasis Trading Post

CAIRO (AP).- Egypt's antiquities department announced Wednesday the discovery of a 3,500-year-old settlement in a desert oasis, showing the existence of vibrant desert trade routes that stretched from the Mediterranean down into Sudan from the early days of the Egyptian civilization. The settlement at Umm el-Mawagir in Egypt's Kharga Oasis, more than 300 miles (500 kilometers) south of Cairo, has been excavated for the past year by a Yale University expedition, whose initial findings suggest it was an administrative post with massive baking facilities, possibly...

AKN Editor Is Touring Cultural Sites In Mainland China

Pomeranian State Museum to Open Exhibition by Three Masters of German Romanticism

GREIFSWALD.- Their fathers were said to be appalled by their sons´ decision to become artists. But the three young men, dreaming of a new way to express art, were determined to implement their plans. Ultimately their parents gave way. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), son of a candle-maker and soap-boiler from Greifswald, Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810), born to a family of shipbuilders, and Friedrich August von Klinkowstrom (1778-1835), descendant of a Prussian officer in Ludwigsburg, would later become the most important painters of the early German...

AKN Editor Tours Newly Opened Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art

ANNOUCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to tour the Newly Opened Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. We will be posting interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . Enjoy.  ...SEE BELOW     

30 years of Development of Chinese Contemporary Art Since the Reform in New Exhibition

BEIJING.- 30 years of development since the reform and opening-up has made China's contemporary art grown from the embryonic stage to maturity, and become an important part of Chinese contemporary culture. In the age of globalization, the Chinese contemporary art has set foot on the abroad and won the attention of international art field. The existence of Chinese contemporary art also fully embodies the inclusiveness and openness of contemporary Chinese culture, as well as irreplaceable spiritual values contained. The exhibition is jointly organized by Graduate...

So Who Owns David, Anyway?

I just read an interesting article in The Guardian about a recent dispute over ownership of Michelangelo's David. The statue, initially commissioned by the Office of Works of the Duomo (in Florence), was completed by Michelangelo (a Florentine) in 1504, installed after consulting a committee of local artists including Leonardo (also Florentine) and Botticelli (ditto), and has been installed in Florence for the past 506 years. It...