Sale of 268 Pieces from L.A Meyer Museum Postponed Last Minute Due To Widespread Objection
Questionable reasons motivating the deaccessioning make many hope the sale will be cancelled altogether by Agnese Oliveri | 29 October 2020 The L.A. Meyer Museum for Islamic Art is located in Katamon, a beautiful part of West Jerusalem. I remember visiting it in September last year and being incredibly impressed by their Islamic collection and the beautiful Breguet watches. When I read, about a week ago, that they intended to auction off 268 pieces, I was astounded. The aucti
Let Them Eat Code
The UK Government’s latest attempt to persuade those involved in the creative industries to shift to IT-based professions smacks of cultural ignorance and elitist hubris by Jonathan Hart | 27 October 2020 Illustration by Jago Henderson A ballet dancer pensively laces her shoe in anticipation of her next recital. Her next job could be in cyber, declares the poster bearing her likeness, but she ‘doesn’t know it yet.’ An image captured by a photographer, fonts devised by typogra
“It’s a bit Chinatowny”
A Fresh Look at Englishness in Liu Xiaodong’s New England (新英格兰), 2019 by Ashleigh Chow | 27 October 2020 Nestled in the heart of London’s Mayfair at Massimo de Carlo, Liu Xiaodong’s latest exhibition New England (6 Oct - 21 Nov 2020) presents a series of intimate portraits, aimed at suggesting a new history of an emerging Chinese diaspora. Painted during a visit to London in June 2019, Liu produces a fresh and brilliant new perspective on Englishness. The aptly titled New En
Art in the Age of Reckoning
October is Black History Month in the UK by Madeline DeFilippis | 25 October 2020 This photo is Copyright ã 2018 David Uzochukwu. All Rights Reserved. 2020 has been a year of intense realisation for the world. After the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, people took to the streets to protest the institutional racism of their governments and societies. The U.K. was not exempt – protestors in London, with celebrity appearances by John Boyega, Dave, and Jade Thirwall among
Committee to Dutch Government: Return What was Stolen
by Sara Blad | 24 October 2020 Illustration by Elsa Money The 36-carat Banjarmasin Diamond, formerly owned by the Sultan of Banjarmasin and now on display at the Rijksmuseum, ‘is war booty’. The Rijksmuseum’s object label describes how in 1859, Dutch troops ‘violently seized’ control of the diamond from the Indonesian sultanate in the midst of a battle of succession. Yet, nothing in the object label indicates if and how the Rijksmuseum intends to return the looted object to I
A Reading of Nick Cave’s And the Ass Saw the Angel
Nick Cave’s 1989 novel ‘And the Ass Saw the Angel’ is a tumultuous lamentation upon Euchrid’s (the central character) discontent with his small town and its inhabitants. by Harry Carlson | 23rd October 2020 Illustration by Kitty Bate Cave moved to Berlin in September of 1984 to stay at a loft squat in Kreuzberg. Here, he isolated himself for months amongst the squalor that he described as “pungent with obsessiveness towards the book”; the walls of the apartment were laden wit