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ART AND CULTURE - June 2020

Jun 2020

Jul 04, 2021

Mysterious Carving of Naked Man Discovered Near Hadrian's Wall

An ancient carving depicting a naked "mystery horseman" discovered at Vindolanda, a Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall, might be a depiction of a god, archeologists said.
The carving shows a man without clothes (except a hat) who is holding a spear and standing in front of either a horse or donkey. This roughly 6-inch-wide by 12-inch-long (16 by 31.5 centimeters) stone would have fit into a recess at the fort, according to archaeologists at Vindolanda Charitable Trust in the United Kingdom.

Jul 01, 2021

PM Modi Launches Japanese-style Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) premises in Ahmedabad. These two new initiatives are part of PM's vision of creating a 'Mini-Japan' in Gujarat. The newly launched Zen garden in Ahmedabad will showcase several elements of Japanese art, culture, landscape and architecture.
The Zen garden features a statue of Lord Buddha. The garden is built in partnership with the Japan Information and Study Centre at AMA and Indo-Japan Friendship Association (IJFA), Gujarat, supported by the Hyogo International Association (HIA), Japan.

Sound Art Garden Coming to Blanton Museum of Art

The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas is opening the first ever museum exhibition space dedicated exclusively to sound art. Named after the Austin-based arts philanthropists Ernest and Sara Butler, who made a $5m donation to the museum for the project, the Butler Sound Gallery will be a park-like outdoor space on the Blanton's roughly 200,000sq. ft campus. The sound garden is part of a campus-wide revitalisation project led by the Norweigan-based architecture firm Snøhetta and is expected to open to the public in 2022.

Jun 29, 2021

Picasso Painting Found in Athens

A painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen nine years ago during a heist at a Greek gallery has been recovered.
Police in Athens said that Picasso's Woman's Head had been found along with a 1905 painting of a windmill by Piet Mondrian.
Both were taken, along with a third artwork, during an elaborate 2012 heist at the Athens National Gallery.
The artworks were stripped from their frames in the early morning raid which only took minutes to carry out.
As per reports, a Greek man has been arrested after the art was found hidden at a gorge on the outskirts of the city.
The Picasso painting, a portrait of a woman in his signature cubist style, was gifted to the National Gallery by the artist himself back in 1949.

Seven Sites Including Venice May be Added to UNESCO in Danger List

Seven years after Venice was first threatened by UNESCO with being put on its list of World Heritage in Danger, the issue will come up again at its World Heritage Committee Meeting in Fuzhou, China, on 16-31 July.
The draft recommendation on Venice by the Unesco World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS and ICCROM, is that "the continued deteriorating effects of human intervention, combined with climate change on the vulnerable lagoon ecosystem, threaten to result in irreversible change.

Jun 21, 2021

Art Becomes Form of Protest against Olympics

Miwako Sakauchi stands in her studio and brushes spinning swirls on torn cardboard and drawing paper, using the five colors designated as symbols of the modern Olympiad.
Titled 'Vortex', her paintings show the "anger, fear, sense of contradiction and state violence" over the residents evicted and the trees felled so enormous Olympic stadiums could be built.
One little-recognised outlet where people have expressed their frustration and fear over the Olympics has been art.
T-shirts, drawings and other artwork have become a form of protest over the decision to hold the Games against medical advice and the public's opposition. Officials have responded in some cases by demanding the sometimes satiric art and merchandise be removed, and the artists say their freedoms are being curtailed.

Jun 13, 2021

U.S. Repatriates 27 Stolen Antiquities to Cambodia

The United States has repatriated 27 antiquities to Cambodia, including Hindu and Buddhist statues, after years of work by New York investigators to recover the smuggled artefacts.
Valued at about $3.8 million, the items included several Hindu and Angkorian Buddhist statues, such as a bronze meditating Buddha on a Naga, a statue of Shiva, and a Buddhist sandstone sculpture of Prajnaparamita.
"The repatriation of these 27 stunning relics to the people of Cambodia restores an important link between the nation's classical Angkor era and its modern customs and beliefs that, for far too long, was disrupted by the greed of stolen antiquities traffickers.

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