Chris Jenkins, Author at Arts & Collections

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Life & CultureMetropolitan Museum of Art Launches New Online Programming and Social Media Initiatives

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched new online programming and social media initiatives while it is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus crisis. Highlights include digital premieres of the opera The Mother of Us All and the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting (above), and a weekly family storytime. #MetAnywhere already features videos, 360-degree tours, publications, and educational resources, as well as popular activities like #MetSketch on the Museum’s social media channels. The new...

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Life & CultureArts Council of Wales Announces Resilience Fund

Chris Jenkins

Arts Council of Wales has today announced the launch of a Resilience Fund to help the arts in Wales to protect themselves against the impact of the Coronavirus/COVID‑19 crisis. The £7m Resilience Fund jointly financed by the Welsh Government and Arts Council of Wales will provide funding for individuals and organisations, managed by the Arts Council of Wales. Full details are to be published on Tuesday 7th April 2020. Arts Council of Wales Chair, Phil...

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Art FocusDavid Hockney Shares New Art From Isolation in Normandy

Chris Jenkins

David Hockney has shared new iPad art from lockdown in his house in Normandy from where he has been writing to BBC arts correspondent Will Gompertz. In isolation with his dog Ruby and two of his long-standing assistants, JP and Jonathan, David Hockney has been drawing the spring awakening, and has shared 10 new images an an animation with the BBC. Attracted to Normandy after the success of his paintings of Spring in Yorkshire ten...

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Art Focus Luxury TravelOutsider Art: Bill Traylor and the ‘Art Brut’ Imagination

Chris Jenkins

The hammer spoke. On January 17th, 2020 – 35 years after the death of Jean Dubuffet, a work by Bill Traylor, born into slavery in 1853 – was sold for $507,000. The auction record for the artist was set for Man on White, Woman on Red/Man with Black Dog (above) by the African-American artist Bill Traylor, a two-sided piece that Steven Spielberg gifted to Alice Waters in 1985 after the shooting of The Colour Purple...

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Art TrendsWinners of Fifth Annual Zeiss Photography Awards Announced

Chris Jenkins

The World Photography Organisation has announced KyeongJun Yang of South Korea as the winner of the fifth annual ZEISS Photography Award. Responding to the brief Seeing Beyond: Discoveries, Yang won for his series Metamorphosis, exploring the immigrant experience. Also announced are the nine shortlisted photographers. For this year’s brief, photographers were asked to submit a series of works focused on the theme of discoveries that transform our everyday lives. These could range from personal revelations...

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CollectionsComerford Collection of Irish Miniature Paintings to be Exhibited

Chris Jenkins

Chiswick Auctions has announced the results for the sale of the The Comerford Collection of Irish portrait miniatures on March 25th. This outstanding collection was compiled over forty years by the late John and Pauline Comerford, who descended from the Irish miniaturist John Comerford (c.1770-1832). Their love of the art form began by sourcing works by some of the leading Irish miniaturists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The entire collection of 121...

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Art TrendsSurvey Shows 2019 Was Busiest Year For London Museums and Galleries

Chris Jenkins

While the coronavirus pandemic has shut down almost all art events in the capital, a survey by The Art Newspaper has shown that 2019 was the busiest year for London museums this century, and saw record attendances at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Helped by exhibition such as Van Gogh and Britain, Tate Britain had its busiest year ever in 2019, and it was also a record year for Tate Modern, with 1.8 m...

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Life & CultureArt Paris Announces New May Dates

Chris Jenkins

Art Paris, initially due to take place from April 2nd—5th, has been postponed to May 28th–31st, at the original location, the Grand Palais. Guillaume Piens, director of the fair said “As many countries globally, France is currently affected by the spread of the Coronavirus, which has given rise to conditions that will make it extremely complicated to hold an event as important as Art Paris at the beginning of April. “As organisers of the fair,...

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Art TrendsARTCELS Announces Shares Release and Coronavirus Strategy

Chris Jenkins

Following the launch and sell-out of its initial share offering, digital art investments platform ARTCELS now plans to release 400 additional shares on 8th April 2020, and during the coronavirus pandemic plans to create bespoke virtual art experiences to allow shareholders to enjoy their art assets from the safety of their homes. ARTCELS opened in London with ‘XXI’, the first ever asset-based contemporary art exhibition, which featured rare and unseen works by blue-chip artists like...

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Life & CultureLondon Design Fair 2020 Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Pandemic

Chris Jenkins

This year’s London Design Fair, due to take place at the Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch on 17th-20th September, has been cancelled. Dates for 2021 will be announced in due course. While this isn’t the first art event to be cancelled or postponed due to the widespread disruption caused by the Coronavirus epidemic, it’s an indication of how long into the year the effects are likely to last. Nearly 70 percent of the event’s exhibitors...

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Life & CultureMetropolitan Museum of Art Launches New Online Programming and Social Media Initiatives

Life & CultureArts Council of Wales Announces Resilience Fund

Art FocusDavid Hockney Shares New Art From Isolation in Normandy

Art Focus Luxury TravelOutsider Art: Bill Traylor and the ‘Art Brut’ Imagination

Art TrendsWinners of Fifth Annual Zeiss Photography Awards Announced

CollectionsComerford Collection of Irish Miniature Paintings to be Exhibited

Art TrendsSurvey Shows 2019 Was Busiest Year For London Museums and Galleries

Life & CultureArt Paris Announces New May Dates

Art TrendsARTCELS Announces Shares Release and Coronavirus Strategy

Life & CultureLondon Design Fair 2020 Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Pandemic

Life & CultureMetropolitan Museum of Art Launches New Online Programming and Social Media Initiatives

Life & CultureArts Council of Wales Announces Resilience Fund

Art FocusDavid Hockney Shares New Art From Isolation in Normandy

Art Focus Luxury TravelOutsider Art: Bill Traylor and the 'Art Brut' Imagination

Art TrendsWinners of Fifth Annual Zeiss Photography Awards Announced