Sotheby’s record design auction totals $45m
domus - Philanthropist Michelle Smith design collection totaled an outstanding $45 million at a Sotheby’s auction, well above its highest estimate of $16 million. - read more...
Spotlight: Marta Promińska
"Everything starts in my dreams…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Marta Promińska
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in art?
Marta Prominska: I didn’t. Art has developed an interes...
Tristes Tropiques, photographing Brazil’s environmental exploitation
domus - “Counter mapping”, a form of resistance mapmaking intended to reveal endangered landscapes, is how photographer Richard Mosse's last project Tristes Tropiques has been described as. - read more ...
What should museums do with the bones of the enslaved?
Art Daily - In an undated image provided via National Library of Medicine, a page from from Morton’s “Crania Americana,” one of a series of works outlining a supposed hierarchy of intelligence based on skull s...
Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate
NY Times - Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says. - read mor...
An artist-designed supermarket pops up in London
Domus - For five days, the Design Museum shop in London will turn into a small supermarket selling essential products designed by emerging artists. - read more ...
Michelangelo’s David gets 3D-printed twin
DW - It's not the first replica of the Renaissance masterpiece, but the latest 3D-printed reproduction, to be unveiled at Expo 2020 Dubai, is unusual. Here's why. - read more ...
The Limits of Colorization of Historical Images by AI
Hyperallergic - For most of the history of photography, if you had a black and white photograph and wanted to see it in color, you had to add the pigment with a paintbrush. Recently though, digital methods, an...
The new iMacs bring color back to the desktop
domus - Twenty-three years after the G3 Model, Apple reboots its popular all-in-one with a wide selection of colours and a stunning design drawn from the iPad Pro's playbook. - read more ...
HOW ART AND SUSTAINABILITY COME TOGETHER IN CRAFT
Smithsonian’ Magazine - Originally from Accra, Ghana, Queen Allotey-Pappoe grew up with her grandmother, a “master craftswoman,” who was always cutting cloth to make quilts or clothes for those around her. - ...