When art plays with illusions
DW - With the installation Richie's Plank Experience, visitors embark on a virtual reality trip. Walking on a plank above the roofs of an animated city while wearing VR glasses, they look upon the abyss. The in...
The Most Important Art World Stories You May Have Missed This Summer
Artery - Welcome back, artworlder. How was your summer? Well, while you were cavorting on Hydra, in the Hamptons, or elsewhere, the art industry kept churning. People changed jobs, galleries made moves, fairs w...
The Camp Aesthetic Is Everywhere, from Andy Warhol to American Politics
Artsy - Using the same word to describe Oscar Wilde, Caravaggio and Lady Gaga may be regarded as a misfortune; using it to describe Avital Ronell’s emails, Nazi propaganda, and Donald Trump looks like carelessn...
How Tony Shafrazi Went from Vandalizing “Guernica” to Inventing a Market for Graffiti Art
Artsy - On February 28, 1974, Tony Shafrazi entered the Museum of Modern Art in New York, went to the third floor, took out a can of red spray paint, and defaced Pablo Picasso ’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica (...
New York’s Chelsea galleries hope new storefronts will bring new business
The Art Newspaper - In recent years, falling foot traffic coupled with a rise in online sales have prompted art dealers to question the once-trusted gallery storefront model, which is increasingly seen as not o...
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...