Is this a masterpiece?
Daily Mail - While not everyone considers an unmade bed to be a work of art, our judgement is affected by being told that it is.A neuroscience study lends support to the 200-year-old art theory first put forwar...
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Sexism and the Canon
Hyperallergic — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. The exhibition presents more than 50 paintings by 12 ...
Set in Stone
Interview - Last week, Central Park received a new piece of statuary courtesy of the Public Art Fund and delightfully droll British artist David Shrigley. Shrigley is best known for his painted works, which ar...
AVAF Takes Over California’s Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
Interior Design - Freedom to absorb is a core belief of all projects by Assume Vivid Astro Focus, the artist collective led by Brazilian Eli Sudbrack and Frenchman Christophe Hamaide-Pierson. It’s certainly par...
51 Contemporary Artists, but Just Three Women
The New York Times - After perusing “Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a big exhibition featuring works by many famous artists of the l...
François Hollande announces $100m fund to protect cultural heritage in the Middle East
The Art Newspaper - François Hollande, the president of France, denounced the destruction of Syria’s cultural heritage in a speech at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuesday night. Standing at the Met’s Temple ...
Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether’
The Guardian - Duglas Rushkoff emerged as a media commentator in 1994 with his first book, Cyberia. His debut examined “the early psychedelic, rave roots of digital technology. I was trying to infer what a digi...
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The Art Market: Oh you pretty things
Financial Times - Proof of a weakened art market is emerging as the auction houses begin to release their figures for the first six months of 2016. During this time, the value of sales at auction at Sotheby’s f...
As the city zeroes in on graffiti, two Detroit artists face possible prison time
Detroit Metro Times - Lucka, 22, and Cosme, 27, are part of the Raiz Up, a hip-hop collective based in Southwest Detroit that pursues community-building through art, education, and direct action. They have voca...
Anya Hindmarch guest edits Sotheby’s ‘Contemporary Curated’
Wallpaper - ‘I could lose my heart to art,’ says Anya Hindmarch at Sotheby's, where she has curated an edit of ten pieces of contemporary art as part of its Contemporary Curated sale, which coincides with Londo...