Why Investing in Fine Art is Different Than Investing in Traditional Asset Classes
Artsy - Dmitry Rybolovlev thought he’d been ripped off when he paid the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier $127.5 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundiin 2013, once he learned Bouvier had paid between $75 a...
France to help build a ‘new Petra’ in Saudi Arabia with estimated $20bn deal
The Art Newspaper - A ten-year agreement between France and Saudi Arabia is due to be signed on Tuesday (10 April), during Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s visit to Paris, to develop the Al-Ula region into a ...
Special counsel investigates Victor Pinchuk’s $150,000 gift to Trump Foundation
The Art Newspaper In September 2015, the Ukrainian billionaire and art philanthropist Victor Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation while the US president was campaigning for the Republican ...
7 Chapels Designed by Artists Including James Turrell, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko
Architectural Digest - "Most major artist-designed chapels are late-career works," says Dr. Aaron Rosen, expert on art and religion and curator of Stations of the Cross NYC. "There's a twofold explanation: Ofte...
Postmasters Looks to Crowdfunding Amid the Mid-Market Squeeze
Artnet News - Postmasters Gallery needs help and it’s not afraid to say so. The more than 30-year old New York gallery announced today that it has joined Patreon, the digital platform that allows creatives of a...
The Many Shades and Meanings of the Color Blue
Hyperallergic — There is something visually seductive about an exhibition structured around color. The initial impression of a room immersed in a single hue is, at the very least, striking; even colors that mig...
Art Dealer and Collector Killed in Blaze at Trump Tower
Hyperallergic - Todd Brassner, an art dealer, collector, and friend of Andy Warhol, died after a fire broke out in his Trump Tower apartment on Saturday, April 7. According to statements by the New York Fire De...
Microsoft gambles on a quantum leap in computing
BBC - A team combining Microsoft researchers and Niels Bohr Institute academics is confident that it has found the key to creating a quantum computer. If they are right, then Microsoft will leap to the front o...
How can architects design facades for the age of climate change?
The Architects Newspaper - Taking environmental stresses into account when designing a building is typical, but rising tides, heat waves, extreme winds and other climate change-driven conditions present new cha...