Vanitas at Kate Werble Gallery
Vanitas at Kate Werble Gallery
by Sara Blazej
An Artery Exclusive
Its been a while since we’ve seen an art exhibition attempt to update the 17th century Dutch painting category “vanitas.” N...
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,000-year-old pottery studio
Artsy - It’s been a busy month for Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities, from speculation about the contents of a mysterious black granite sarcophagus—three skeletons and some “mummy juice,” it turned out—to the dis...
An ancient Persian artwork that was seized at a Manhattan art fair last year will be returned to Iran
Artsy - Last October, three police officers and two prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office stormed into the classy confines of the European Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory on the Uppe...
Elon Musk and artist settled their copyright dispute over an image of a farting unicorn.
Artsy - The feud started in February 2017, when Musk tweeted out, “maybe my favorite mug ever,” with a link to Edward’s mug, on which he’d painted a unicorn farting energy into a car. For Edwards, whose father ...
Syrian museums seek Russian expertise to restore destroyed Palmyra sculptures
The Art Newspaper - Syrian museum workers are consulting with Russian specialists on the restoration of statues from Palmyra, the ancient city that has been liberated twice from Islamic State (IS) since 2015, a...
Christie’s reports record half year sales of £2.97bn
The Art Newspaper - Christie’s reports it has netted its highest ever half year sales total (in pounds not dollars), racking up £2.97bn — a 26% increase on last year. The previous high of £2.9bn was in 2015. Th...
Tate blockbuster to prove Pierre Bonnard was a great Modern painter
The Art Newspaper - Bonnard’s place in Modern art has long been debated. Picasso delivered a particularly damning verdict on him. “That’s not painting, what he does,” he said, accusing him of producing “a potp...
The Earth is Flat at Carriage Trade
The Earth is Flat
Carriage Trade
by Sara Blazej
An Artery Exclusive
In a 2013 speech at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., former president Barack Obama addressed a rapt public on the ever worsen...
Christo’s Latest Work Weighs 650 Tons and It Floats
The New York Times - Wearing a hard hat and a cargo jacket, the artist Christo stood on a platform looking over the Serpentine lake one April morning and watched his latest creation come to life. As ducks glide...
How Art Museums Can Remain Relevant in the 21st Century
Artsy - Last Spring Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), spawned calls for the painting’s destruction, an on-air discussion on the daytime chat show The View, and a protest within the Wh...