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The 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival reached its conclusion with the announcement of the winners of this year's Standard Bank Ovation Awards. Livestreamed to Facebook, the Standard 2020 Ovation Awards ceremony was attended by fans and followers of the arts as the 45 winners of the Standard Bank Ovation award were honoured and overall winners of the Bronze, Silver and Gold were announced. In celebration of the winners, 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz Sisonke Xonti and 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz Shane Cooper performed during the show. A panel of adjudicators spent countless hours reviewing work to find those productions that fully embraced performance for digital audiences and told stories that resonated with our current times and hopes for the future. They awarded 45 productions with the Standard Bank Ovation recognition, a badge that is placed on the show page as a marker to audiences, but ten shows, in particular, stood out and were awarded Gold, Silver a

The Artscape Theatre's 2020 edition of the Women's Humanity Arts Festival, consisting of a series of live and pre-recorded online events, will be held online between 9 and 31 August. Funded by the City of Cape Town, this virtual festival will have a full programme of dance and theatre performances, panel discussions and podcasts. Even the Women’s Humanity Walk organised by Woman Zone, which each year sees thousands of participants take to the streets from an iconic building and walking in unity to the Artscape piazza, will be a special virtual edition this year. It will take viewers on a complete tour of Cape Town’s city sites that relate particularly to women, past and present. All the shows and performances will be accessible via the Artscape website:  www.artscape.co.za Under the theme, ‘Freedom and Inclusivity for All Humanity’, this year’s festival will shine a spotlight firmly on South Africa’s continuing epidemic of gender-based violence. “Women are judged on what they w

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Missing greenery and nature? Run to the Albert-Kahn museum and discover its exceptional garden to enjoy a wonderful change of scenery. On weekends, you can enjoy this wonderful invitation to travel to the heart of nature. We missed beautiful places and we are happy to be reunited with them. In Île-de-France, since lockdown has been lifted, forests and woods have become the place to be before parks and gardens reopen. Throughout the region, one loves to rediscover the most beautiful green places for bucolic reunions. By  Boulogne-Billancourt , a wonderful site has reopened: the  Musée départemental Albert-Kahn . It features idyllic garden, as well as a museum housing some of the famous “Archives de la Planète” [Planet’s Archives] collections created by philanthropist  Albert Kahn  including pictures and shots from the world between 1909 and 1931. Missing greenery and nature? Run to the Albert-Kahn museum and discover its exceptional garden to enjoy a wonderful change of scenery. On week

Paris Musée National Picasso and Musée Rodin team up and offer an exceptional double-exhibition about Picasso and Rodin. From February 9 to July 18, 2021 discover two exhibitions on the bonds between the two artists in their own Parisian museums. A great first you do not want to miss! Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin: two artists, two big names in the art world. The Musée Rodin and the Musée national Picasso team up and present the “Picasso - Rodin, une exposition, deux lieux” [Picasso-Rodin, one exhibition, two locations]. This double event is set at the same time, from February 9 to July 18, 2021, in both museums. This is going to be a great meeting in the galleries of the Musée Rodin. Picasso and Rodin face one another and answer one another through their works. In this mix of paintings and sculptures, we discover a rather unexpected dialog, a resonance and an unexpected proximity. Both exhibitions complete one another, each focusing on a different art aspect of both men. At the Musé

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Rebeccah Blum, an independent curator based in Berlin who was known there as an ambitious and compassionate supporter of artists, has died at age fifty-three. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Emma, on social media. Through initiatives like Blum Fine Art Management, a firm she started in 2012, and Satellite Berlin, a platform cofounded with art advisor Kit Schulte in 2014, Blum focused her career on international collaboration. From 2007 to 2012, she directed programming at Aurel Scheibler gallery’s downtown Berlin space, ScheiblerMitte, where she oversaw solo exhibitions by Michel Auder, Anthony Goicolea, and Joe Zucker. Blum also worked as a European ambassador to New York’s David Nolan Gallery and created a translation and editing service, Wordsmith, whose clientele included the Goethe-Institut and the Vitra Design Museum. “Rebeccah wanted to stimulate the general dialogue between art and culture in a meaningful way and to develop new content in collaboration with other areas

Despite  objections  around the world from preservationists, politicians, prominent curators, and tens of thousands of  petition signers , the Norwegian government has detached the concrete mural by Pablo Picasso that has adorned a building in Oslo’s downtown Regjeringskvartalet quarter for fifty years. The structure, a Brutalist office complex known as the Y-block, which was damaged in a 2011 terrorist attack, is slated for demolition as part of redevelopment plans for the city’s small government district. The Y-block was realized in 1969 by modernist architect Erling Viksjø, who also designed the adjacent H-block, which hosts a smaller Picasso mural,  The Seagull , in its lobby. Both works were executed by Picasso collaborator Carl Nesjar and are being relocated. According to the  Times , Viksjø’s grandson and Nesjar’s daughter, Gro Nesjar Greve, have jointly sued the Norwegian government to prevent  The Fisherman  from being reintroduced above the VIP entrance to the new building, w

The artist Heather Phillipson’s latest work is a 31-foot statue of a dollop of whipped cream, with a fly on it. This one hasn’t been easy. In March, the work was meant to be installed on an empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, the latest in a series of commissions that brings contemporary art to the central London plaza. But on the day the installation was scheduled to begin, Britain went into lockdown. Soon after, she was having conversations with the London city officials about whether the work could be installed during the pandemic at all. The work’s title, “The End,” didn’t have the best connotations at a moment when thousands were dying. “It started to feel like there’d never be a good time, or a right time, for it to go up,” Phillipson said in a recent interview at her East London studio. On Thursday, “The End” was finally unveiled. Phillipson said the work had been conceived in 2016, not long after Britain voted to leave the European Union, and she had wanted the creamy sculpture,