The Best Art of 2018
The New York Times - When the going gets rough, there’s always art. It can soothe and teach you, and arm you with new tools and perspectives with which to face the world. This year had some great winners and o...
7 Ways Technology is Changing How Art is Made
The Smithsonian - Where would the Impressionists have been without the invention of portable paint tubes that enabled them to paint outdoors? Who would have heard of Andy Warhol without silkscreen printing? Th...
How Are Art Dealers Dealing With the Gallery Crisis?
Artnet News -It’s undeniable that the gallery sector is a different place in December 2018 than it was in January. Throughout this year, galleries worldwide have shuttered, dealers have vocalized their mounting...
Art Basel in Miami Beach’s Opening Day Sales Reflect a Hesitant Market
ARTSY - Confronted with a partially gilded plate of risotto piled high with white truffle shavings at a dinner to celebrate the Haas Brothers show at Miami Beach’s Bass museum on Monday, a prominent designer ...
The Man Making Art From Government Surveillance
NPR - Trevor Paglen writes the kinds of books that get you into weird conversations with strangers. He takes the kinds of pictures that are slightly unnerving until you read the title card, and then it becomes...
When algorithms go wrong we need more power to fight back, say AI researcher
The Verge - Governments and private companies are deploying AI systems at a rapid pace, but the public lacks the tools to hold these systems accountable when they fail. That’s one of the major conclusions in a...
Bidding Farewell to ‘Castelli Model’ of Doing Business
ARTNEWS - In its new incarnation as a private dealership, New York’s Cheim & Read gallery will commission unspecified artists for a mural in Palm Beach in conjunction with that city’s Norton Museum of Art i...
Widower takes aim at chairman of Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Art Newspaper - Before Charles C. Bergman, the chairman and chief executive of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation died n February, he chose a Successor to run the organisation he had led since its inception: Ro...
Cosmic Aura in the Paintings of Neil Kerman
by Nick Berkow
The painterly activity of Neil Kerman, while appearing at first to be essentially abstract in character, is not so much actualized within the spontaneous moment as much as it is allowed to evolv...