Facett hearing aid takes inspiration from precious gemstones
de zeen - The mineralogy collection at the Melbourne Museum inspired Australian designer Leah Heiss' Facett hearing aid, which aims to shift talk "from disability to desirability". - read more
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Christie’s Notches £84 Million London Sale as Star Lots by Richter and Koons Fizzle
Artsy - The spree of Frieze auctions kicked off in London on Thursday with a three-hour-long sale at Christie’s King Street salesroom here in London’s Mayfair. The night brought in a total of £84.6 million ($10...
Jenny Saville Becomes Most Expensive Living Female Artist at £67.3 Million Sotheby’s Sale
Artsy - After an extended, five-person battle at Sotheby’s London Friday, Jenny Saville became the world’s most expensive living female artist when her painting Propped (1992) sold at the house’s New Bond Stre...
How Dealers Turn Under-Appreciated Artists into Blue-Chip Names
Artsy - Like many dealers, Almine Rech, who runs galleries in Paris, New York, Brussels, and London, enjoys identifying rising young artists such as (37) to join her program. But she’s just as likely to hunt f...
How Banksy’s Prank Might Boost His Prices: ‘It’s a Part of Art History’
New York Times - Everybody’s talking about it. How did the world’s most famous street artist manage to shred — or rather half shred — one of his iconic “Girl With Balloon” paintings moments after it had sold f...
Salvator Mundi will not go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi this month, for reasons unknown
The Art Newspaper- Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi will not be unveiled at the Louvre Abu Dhabi this month as planned, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has announced. - Read ...
Tintoretto’s 500th anniversary takes over Venice
The Art Newspaper - Among the celebrated painters of 16th-century Venice, Tintoretto was the most Venetian. Jacopo Robusti (around 1518-94), nicknamed “the little dyer” after his father’s cloth-dying trade, is ...
Rolling with the punches: how the art market bounced back
The Art Newspaper - Ten years ago, on 15 September 2008, Damien Hirst sold £70.5m of his own work at Sotheby’s in London, a ballsy move by an artist, bypassing the usual middle-men. The same evening, Lehman Bro...
Protesters Decry Neglect After Brazilian Museum Fire
The Art Newspaper - Hours after an immense fire consumed the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, a crowd of protesters gathered in front of the wrecked institution on last night (3 September) to protest the fina...