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The Oman-born, Zurich-based artist Sam Ghantous (b. 1989) is a true multi-hyphenate: artist, architect, designer, teacher, and co-founder of Foreign Objects, a multidisciplinary design and research studio. Exploring and experimenting with techniques from across disciplines and mediums, including the Internet, architecture, and video games, Ghantous composes works that blur the boundaries between physical and digital space.

Presented by YveYang Gallery of New York, Ghantous’s video piece Work-Space Portrait (2021) will be shown in the film section of Art Basel Hong Kong, which is curated by Zhenhua Li.

We reached out to Ghantous to learn more about the work on view,

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British Museum Sues Former Curator Peter Higgs Over Alleged Mass Theft

25/06/2025

The British Museum is suing former curator Peter Higgs, alleging that he stole more than 1,800 items from its collection.

Higgs was fired in July 2023. The museum’s initial announcement in August about the approximately 2,000 missing, stolen, and damaged items did not name Higgs, but news reports in the Times of London and the Daily Telegraph quickly identified the veteran curator of Greek and Roman art.

The missing, damaged, and stolen items were ancient gems and gold jewelry, plus other small pieces that had not been on public display. According to the Associated Pressthe museum’s lawyers said Higgs

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Ex-Labor leaders among group call on Tanya Plibersek to protect Aboriginal rock art from gas emissions

23/06/2025

Dozens of leaders, including former Labor politicians, are calling on the federal environment minister to stop the proposed extension of a

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A Q&A With Art Basel Hong Kong Director Angelle Siyang-Le

22/06/2025

With Covid travel restrictions finally over, 2024 is a big year for Art Basel Hong Kong as the fair has now returned to its pre-pandemic peak of 242 exhibiting galleries. That figure, according to director Angelle Siyang-Le, puts the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, where the fair opens Tuesday, at full capacity. There’s no getting bigger from here.

And yet, the fair keeps finding way to expand, with a series of public programs that extend it far into the city. There’s a program of film screenings, roundtable conversations, an off-site installation, a sector of the exhibition that is free

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The Goat Life – Unexpected Box Office Hype For Art Film

20/06/2025

Malayalam cinema has consistently rolled out top-tier films in the recent months. The likes of Premalu and Manjummel Boys have set the box office on absolute fire over the last few weeks. Now it is the turn of Goat Life which has Prithviraj Sukumaran in the lead role which hits the theaters today.

Goat Life is a biographical survival drama set in the Gulf Countries and it tracks the miraculous escape of a scavenging Indian man who got stuck there.

By the looks of it, Goat Life looked like an art film that would cater almost entirely to the A-center

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Alfred Ceramic Art Museum awards Ackerman Internship to SOAD student Diabou Hubbard

27/03/2025

Diabou Hubbard, a third-year student in Alfred University’s School of Art and Design, New York State College of Ceramics, has been awarded the spring 2024 Jerome Ackerman Internship at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum.

As an art student, Hubbard’s focus has been on painting and fiber-related artwork, and he brought an interest in African traditionalism and modernity to his work, acknowledging a deep interest in the cultural diversity of the African continent and specifically his Senegalese cultural heritage.

Hubbard’s curiosity about the Museum began in a history of Asian Ceramic Art class taught by Megan Jones, Alfred University Associate Professor

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Art Beat: A life in comics

26/03/2025

Mel Gillman is an award-winning graphic novelist and colored pencil artist who specializes in queer and trans comics for middle-grade and young adult readers. They’re the authors of several graphic novels, including As the Crow Flies, Stage Dreamsand most recently, Other Ever Afters. Gillman has a Master of Fine Arts degree in comics from the Center for Cartoon Studies, and lives in Columbus, Ohio. Gillman will be the April artist-in-residence at the Prairie Round Artist Residency in Vicksburg, Michigan.

A conversation with Jaden Dominique

“I really got into comic books when I was an undergrad,” Gillman says.

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Art in Medicine, Introducing the Ko Iki Mini Museum

25/03/2025

There’s a new addition to the great lawn on the John A. Burns School of Medicine campus. Inspired by the free petite library movement that made reading accessible to millions, there’s a similar structure intended to provide inspiration and accessibility to art for all who pass by.

The Ko Iki Mini Museum (Ko, for her surname and “iki” for “small” in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) was installed on the JABSOM campus earlier this month by JABSOM alumna Dr. Kathryn Ko.

“I think art should be free and accessible to all. Sometimes people get intimidated going into a museum, so my idea was

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