Study finds museums are Covid-safe
domus - Museums and cultural spaces were among Covid’s most vulnerable victims and their already precarious sustenance has been severely tested by several months-long closures. Yet, such measures may have been...
13 installations in the Coachella Valley desert
domus - From 12 March to 16 May in the Coachella Valley desert, in Southern California, takes place the third edition of the international art exhibition Desert X, curated by artistic director Neville Wakefield...
What Are NFTs, Anyway? One Just Sold for $69 Million.
NY Times - The artist Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, has just sold an NFT at a record-breaking $69.3 million, the third-highest price achieved by a living artist. The sale, at Christie’s, for the purely...
Spotlight: Subodh Maheshwari
“My inspiration comes from nature…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Subodh Maheshwari
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in art?
Subodh Maheshwari: For as long as I can remember...
Cindy Sherman Signs With Hauser and Wirth as Her Longtime Gallery Metro Pictures Announces Its Closure
artnet news - Shortly after legendary dealership Metro Pictures announced plans to close after 40 years, Hauser & Wirth confirmed it has signed the gallery’s biggest star, Cindy Sherman. The groundbreaking ...
Banksy Scaled the Prison That Once Jailed Oscar Wilde to Paint His Latest Mural
hyperallergic - Blockbuster street artist Banksy has laid claim to his latest work of public art — an olde tyme prison escape stenciled on the wall of the defunct HM Reading Prison in Reading, Berkshire, Englan...
A Pandemic-Driven Love Affair With All Things Vintage
NY Times - It’s not often that Home Union, a vintage home furnishings store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, gets its hands on a 1970s Mads Caprani curved floor lamp. But when it does, the $2,200 Danish fixture sells...
How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan
NY Times - In November 2013, Nora von Achenbach, curator at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, examined the catalog for an upcoming auction by the Paris-based dealer Boisgirard-Antonini. The glo...
From Japan comes a solution for attending theatre while respecting social distancing
domus - Japanese dance company Moonlight Mobile Theater (tsukiakari-theater.jp) renown for their avant-garde performances, has come up with a crafty way of returning to the scene while respecting social distanc...
Male Artists Have Made Fortunes in the Exploding NFT Market
artnet news - Beeple. Fewocious. Andrés Reisinger. That guy who made Nyan Cat. As the market for NFT artworks explodes, the majority of the artists benefitting from the sudden boom are men—reflecting both the ...