Tag: art
Downtown Chatham art crawl returns March 25
For the first time in over two years, municipal art galleries are inviting people to downtown Chatham to hop between storefronts to look at art and speak with local artists.…
War in Ukraine: the art of guerrilla warfare
Several governments have announced the sending of military aid to Ukraine, nearly twenty European countries in particular have responded to appeals from Kiev. Military aid that includes missiles capable of…
“There are no words,” sighs the director of the art gallery – historical statues are covered in plastic as Lviv awaits bombs
Lviv in western Ukraine has still escaped Russian hostilities, but the city is preparing for them. Citizens collect and send aid to soldiers, areas in the midst of fighting, and…
Philippe Katerine, all the art of filer mignon
Philippe Katerine is a protean and multi-talented dandy artist. He returns, this time, with a book and an exhibition entitled “Mignonisme”. An artistic current born at the border of Dadaism…
With toothpick art, Harrison processes the trauma of his flight from Nigeria
Likewise today. She has brought clean tea towels, cutlery, a bag of soda and cream puffs. “They can keep that, because they don’t have much here. The soda is for…
a new beat’em all in pixel art reminiscent of Final Fight
Since Streets of Rage 4 and its 2.5 million copies sold (as of April 2021), old school beat ’em has been on the rise. Microids has successfully engulfed itself thanks…
The French Parliament approves the return of works of art looted by the Nazis
In France, the unanimous Parliament definitively adopted this Tuesday evening a bill allowing the restitution of 15 works of art, including a painting by Gustav Klimt and another by Marc…
Leersum wants a work of art that recalls a fall wind: ‘Very far-reaching event’
Last June, the fall wind caused enormous havoc in Leersum, Maarsbergen and the hamlet of Valkenheide. Dozens of trees were uprooted, some ended up on houses. The damage was not…
Ai Weiwei, freedom is the childhood of art
Ai Weiwei is an internationally recognized committed artist. He has made his works and performances into aesthetic and militant manifestos. Today he publishes his autobiography “1000 years of joys and…
Museum and art gallery reopening with new exhibitions
Staff at the Chatham-Kent Museum and Thames Art Gallery were set to reopen their doors Feb. 2. The two facilities, located inside the Chatham Cultural Centre, had been closed since…