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Archaeologists Find Evidence of Hallucinogenic Drug in Ancient Rome Skip to content A bust of Emperor Trajan surrounded by black henbane seends and flowers and a femur discovered by archaeologists (edit Valentina Di Liscia/ Hyperallergic ) Two new archaeological finds suggest Roman subjects at the northern edge of the ancient empire used a hallucinogenic and poisonous plant called black henbane, the effects of which were described by Greek philosopher Plutarch as “not so properly called drunkenness” but rather “alienation of mind or madness.” Dutch zooarchaeologists Maaike Groot and Martijn van Haasteren and archaeobotanist Laura I...

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Collector Eugenio López Alonso on his museum’s tenth anniversary and Mexico City’s rising profile in the art world Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Collectors interview Collector Eugenio López Alonso on his museum’s tenth anniversary and Mexico City’s rising profile in the art world Visitors to the city during Zona Maco can also take in Museo Jumex’s anniversary group show, curated by New Museum director Lisa Philips Osman Can Yerebakan 8 February 2024 Share Collector and Museo Jumex founder Eugenio López Alonso Brian Harkin Museo Jumex, a major engine in Mexico City’s transformation into a contemporary art hub, is celebrating its tenth anniversary with programming that includes the group exhibition Everything Gets Lighter , curated by Lisa Philips, the director of New York City’s New Museum, and the upcoming first survey of Damien Hirst’s work at a Mexican institution...

The museums were selected from a pool of 1,000 applicants to the talk show host’s “weird art” competition....

Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires Colombian trans activist’s portrait at Nada Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires Colombian trans activist’s portrait at Nada Photograph by Camila Falquez shows coffee picker Samantha Siagama Benjamin Sutton 7 December 2023 Share Samantha Siagama advocates for a group of trans women exiled from the Emberá Indigenous community Courtesy the artist and Hannah Traore Gallery The Pérez Art Museum Miami has acquired a work for its permanent collection from the New Art Dealers Alliance’s (Nada) Miami fair ...

Plastic Kingdom: art exhibition questions Cambodia’s rampant waste problem (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 28, 2018 An new art exhibition in Phnom Penh featuring works by Cambodian and foreign artists will raise questions about plastic use and recycling, through woodcarvings, illustrations and even a motorbike...

On Sung Hwa Kim: Today’s Yesterday, Yesterday’s Tomorrow at Harper's Chelsea 512 advertise donate post your art opening recent articles cities contact about article index podcast main February 2024 "The Best Art In The World" "The Best Art In The World" February 2024 On Sung Hwa Kim: Today’s Yesterday, Yesterday’s Tomorrow at Harper's Chelsea 512 Installation view...

The CEO of Apollo Global Management complains that the public market doesn’t understand “rare, valuable creatures” like his company....

Opinion | How the word ‘hostage’ used to mean something quite different to its modern definition, as the Israel-Gaza war rumbles on | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Hostages who were abducted by Hamas gunmen during the October 7 attack on Israel are handed over by militants to the International Red Cross in an unknown location in the Gaza Strip on November 30, 2023...

Jessie Homer French’s Paintings of Wildfires Reveal the Beauty in Destruction | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Jessie Homer French’s Paintings of Wildfires Reveal the Beauty in Destruction Tara Dalbow Jan 26, 2024 11:58PM Portrait of Jessie Homer French by Ryan Schude...

An Interview with Artist Mary Weatherford | Observer Not long ago, artist Mary Weatherford opened a show of new paintings at Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue, “ Sea and Space ,” which probes the depths of these concepts alongside their real natural beauty...

“A Dream Under the Southern Bough: Reverie”: Down the Ant Hole | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of Toy Factory June 6, 2019 By Jocelyn Chng (1,138 words, five-minute read) My strongest memory from the first instalment of this three-year series by Toy Factory, A Dream Under the Southern Bough: The Beginning , was its dramatic cliffhanger of an ending...

For his project Book of Veles artist Jonas Bendiksen travelled to the small city of Veles in North Macedonia, inspired by a series of press reports starting in 2016, that revealed Veles as a major source of the fake news stories flooding Facebook and other social media sites celebrating Donald Trump and denigrating Hillary Clinton...

Milena Bonilla, Public Movement, Arin Rungjang, Shitamichi Motoyuki, Emilija Škarnulyte, Sriwhana Spong The exhibition If These Stones Could Sing focuses on the body as a site to engage the politics of public monuments...

The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...

Did you want more sleep?: weish knows people are tired of livestreams | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints SIFA December 23, 2020 For artist weish, who is one-half of electronica duo .gif, this has been an intense year creatively, and one of increased self-scrutiny...

Shot on location at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Ortega speaks about “Domestic Cosmogony”, a permanent kinetic installation at the museum...

Central Station, Alignment, and Argument are “situation portraits” that present whimsical characters within distorted and troubling worlds...

Between Worlds: Café Sarajevo, ATARA and No Place | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Crispian Chan February 17, 2020 By Nabilah Said and Germaine Cheng (1,580 words, 7-minute read) What does it mean to be between worlds? To behold yet not belong? Three works – Café Sarajevo , ATARA and No Place – presented as part of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020 ask these questions, of their audience and of themselves...

« Les musées doivent pleinement jouer leur rôle dans le débat écologique » nav_close_menu Offrir Le Monde F ace au dérèglement climatique et alors que s’est achevée mercredi 13 décembre la COP28 , les musées, institutions ancrées dans la vie de la cité, sont à un tournant de leur histoire, contraints de réinventer leurs modes d’action, de pensée et de fonctionnement...