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As UK Museums Struggle, Major Artists Step In to Help

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 24, 2020November 24, 2020

British artists Anish Kapoor, Lubaina Himid, and Michael Landy are offering prints to help keep the country’s museums afloat during the pandemic as part of an Art Fund initiative.

Posted inIn Brief

Seven Arrested After “The Bean” by Anish Kapoor Was Defaced in Chicago

by Hakim Bishara July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

The police found Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” sculpture at the city’s Millennium Park covered in graffiti.

Posted inOpinion

Sir Anish Kapoor’s Clenched Fist of Copyright, the Battle Over Fair Use, and the NRA

by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento June 26, 2018June 25, 2018

Does an artist have the right to withhold their work when they don’t agree with the political message?

Anish Kapoor, "Cloud Gate" (2006) (photo by Ines Hegedus-Garcia, via Flickr)
Posted inNews

Anish Kapoor Sues the NRA for Showing “Cloud Gate” in Recruitment Video

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 20, 2018

The artist claims that the gun advocacy group is committing copyright infringement by using an image of his sculpture in a video without his permission.

Posted inNews

Bean There, Done That: Houston Gets a Precursor of Chicago’s Shiny Anish Kapoor

by Claire Voon March 29, 2018March 29, 2018

“I think much more than ‘Cloud Gate,’ ‘Cloud Column’ is meant specifically to capture the heavens and bring them down to earth,” MFAH’s director, Gary Tinterow, told Hyperallergic.

Anish Kapoor, "At the Edge of the World II" (1998) (photo by Jack Hems
, © Anish Kapoor, courtesy Lisson Gallery)
Posted inArt

A John Cage Quote Unifies a Sprawling Show of Digital and Analog Art

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 29, 2017

Everything at Once, a vast group exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of Lisson Gallery, strings together an eclectic array of strong but thematically disparate works.

Posted inIn Brief

Anish Kapoor’s Bean Will Be Windexed, Baked (by Guy Fieri), Turned into a Ghost, and More

by Claire Voon October 27, 2017October 27, 2017

A new meme has people creating Facebook events to render peculiar tributes to Chicago’s iconic “Cloud Gate” sculpture.

Posted inArt

Opposite Ways of Making Nothing, with Anish Kapoor and Wilfredo Prieto

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado August 5, 2016August 4, 2016

MEXICO CITY — Two artists who couldn’t be more opposite — blue-chip celebrity superstar Anish Kapoor and the Cuban magician of minimalism Wilfredo Prieto — have solo shows currently on view in two of Mexico’s most distinguished contemporary art spaces.

Posted inOpinion

Brexit Could Close the Door to Opportunities for Artists

by Maria Howard June 22, 2016June 23, 2016

LONDON — Much of the Brexit debate has focused on questions of economy, immigration, and security, which will be most impacted by the decision. But little has been said of the arts — one of the most multicultural industries in Britain today.

Posted inArt

On One Block in Chelsea, Three Monumental Installations Empower and Overpower

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 9, 2016June 11, 2016

In a small, über-blue chip stretch of 21st Street in Chelsea, three adjacent galleries are concurrently running exhibitions that feature a series of monumental art pieces that move between refined, processed, man-made materiality to earthen structures, and plant life that grows from the soil.

Posted inIn Brief

Anish Kapoor Gets Exclusive Rights to the World’s Darkest Material [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon February 29, 2016March 5, 2016

Anish Kapoor now owns the exclusive rights to the world’s darkest material — a claim that, naturally, is pissing off other artists.

Posted inNews

Hundreds of Indian Artists Condemn Government Indifference to Far-Right Violence

by Meenakshi Thirukode November 5, 2015November 17, 2015

NEW DELHI — On October 27 the Indian news site Scroll published a letter signed by over 300 artists that expresses support for the more than 40 writers who have returned their state awards over the past month as a form of protest against the increasingly intolerant environment in India for minorities and cultural producers.

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