Spotlight: Marija Orlovic
“Shaping feelings…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Marija Orlovic
Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art?
Marija Orlovic: In my childhood it was the feeling of freedom and beauty t...
artist soo sunny park on liminal spaces and casting light as a sculptural material
Design Boom - Light becomes a sculptural material throughout the diverse portfolio of artist Soo Sunny Park, whose projects challenge the boundaries between sculpture, installation, and drawing. after moving to...
Looted Ethiopian Artifacts Withdrawn from Sale at British Auction House
Hyperallergic - In response to appeals from the Ethiopian government, a leather-bound Ethiopian Coptic Bible and a set of Victorian graduated horn beakers were withdrawn from a June 17 sale at Busby, a small au...
How Do You Move a 30-Ton Diego Rivera Fresco? Very Carefully.
NY TIMES - For decades the monumental 10-panel fresco by Diego Rivera depicting a continent linked by creativity has been mounted in the lobby of a theater at City College of San Francisco. - read more ...
How Basquiat and Street Artists Left Their Mark on Hip-Hop Culture
NY TIMES - BOSTON — By 1984, 24-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat had already broken into the mainstream art world. But the onetime street artist still couldn’t shake the legacy of his teenage years spent writing ...
british artist needles intricate 3D ’embroidered edibles’ that look like real food
designboom - British artist and designer youmeng liu has unveiled a series of embroidered food designs that look like real food. using her newly developed 3D punch needle technique, liu has taken it upon hersel...
At Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel, Stain-fighting Bacteria Work Miracles
hyperallergic - In these epidemic days, it’s easy to paint all microbial organisms in a bad light, but some bacteria are chiseling out a reputation in marble restoration. Over the last year, a team of scientis...
Contemporary art and artificial intelligence meet at MAXXI in Rome
domus - “Re: define the boundaries” is the title of this second edition of Re: Humanism, prize and exhibition at MAXXI in Rome (until 30 May 2021) with ten works on show that investigate the relationships betwe...
A Painting Bought at a Small Town Dump for $4 Turned Out to Be by David Bowie—and It Just Sold for More Than $87,000
artnet news - A David Bowie painting that originally sold for just less than $5 at a Canadian landfill has set a new auction record for the artist and musician. The work has sold for a cool CA$108,120 ($87,789...
The evolution of Land Art from Walter De Maria to Doug Aitken
domus - “I first met Walter in downtown New York. We had lunch on a cold winter afternoon.” With these words, Doug Aitken – an artworld star anointed with a Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale – describes ...