New York City’s Guggenheim Museum was gifted the buzzy banana taped to a wall that was the talk of a 2019 Florida art fair according to the New York Times, in a show of support for the work’s artistic merit after the fruit drew fierce debate and derision, along with a price tag as high as $150,000. KEY FACTS - The banana sculpture—which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall—was…
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As theaters remain shuttered in both the United Kingdom and the U.S., Netflix announced late Sunday that they have made a £500,000 donation to initiate the Theatre Artists Fund, a new initiative to directly help British artists affected by the ongoing pandemic. KEY FACTS - The fund, established by director Sam Mendes, the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, will donate £1,000…
Six people have been arrested in France in connection the theft of a mural by British street artist Banksy that was stolen from Paris’ Bataclan concert hall in 2019 and later recovered in Italy earlier this month, sources told Reuters and AFP Saturday. KEY FACTS - Sources told AFP that two were charged with theft, four were charged with concealing theft and that all…
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