Mondrian Before Abstraction
Hyperallergic- Kingmaker Peggy Guggenheim awaited Mondrian’s endorsement of Jackson Pollock before including the latter in a show of new American painting. Fellow Dutch immigrant Willem de Kooning is said to ha...
At 87, This Icelandic Pop Artist Is Still Making Eye-Popping Work
Artsy - For over six decades, the Icelandic artist Erró has made paintings that forgo gentle aesthetics in favor of riotous visual assaults. - read more ...
How Clyfford Still Took Control of the Market for His Work
artsy - Of all the 20th-century artists who exerted control over their own markets, Clyfford Still was arguably the most forceful. In 1951, the Abstract Expressioniststopped working with galleries and became ...
A Japanese Mega-Collector Is Giving Away $9 Million to His Twitter Followers to See If Money Makes People Happy
artnet news - The billionaire art collector and fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa is giving away ¥1 billion ($9 million) to a group of his Twitter followers in a “social experiment.” - read more ...
Possible Dürer discovered above souvenir shop in Vienna’s cathedral
The Art Newspaper - Experts believe underdrawing in St Stephen’s is first evidence that the master worked in the Austrian capital. - read more ...
When You Can’t Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect
Hyperalergic - In September, the Trump administration set the cap on refugee admissions to the United States for the coming year at 18,000 — a historic low. - read more ...
Sabine Marcelis creates furniture and lighting from same materials as Barcelona Pavilion
de zeen - Designer Sabine Marcelis has used glass, travertine and polished metal to create a collection of sculptural interventions that respond to the materiality of Mies van Der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion. - r...
Gharfa is a multi-sensory pavilion in Riyadh by Edoardo Tresoldi
de zeen - Gharfa is the first project completed by his interdisciplinary lab Studio Studio Studio, in collaboration with artist Alberonero, musician Max Magaldi and garden designer Matteo Foschi of Odd Garden. ...
You Can Slow Down Time in Virtual Reality’: Why This Artist Is Using VR to Recreate Lost Ecosystems in the Era of Climate Change
artnet news - The last Kaua’i ‘ō’ō bird died in 1987. After the species went extinct, a user uploaded a recording of the Hawaiian bird’s unique mating call to YouTube in 2009 and it has since been played by hum...
Climate activists urge British Museum to reject BP funding, as Arctic exhibition announced
The Art Newspaper - The British Museum has announced a “bold and ambitious” exhibition exploring how Arctic peoples who have lived with extreme weather for millennia are at the front line of man-made climate ch...