Beeple Brings Crypto to Christie’s
NY Times - Mike Winkelmann never used to call himself an artist. But that was before he made $3.5 million in a single weekend from selling his artworks. In December, he auctioned off multiple editions of three ...
Why Armenian Cultural Heritage Threatens Azerbaijan’s Claims to Nagorno-Karabakh
Hyperallergic - Around 3am on September 27, my phone buzzed with messages that Azerbaijan had launched an aerial assault on Nagorno-Karabakh — the landlocked, mountainous enclave in the south Caucasus populated...
Two-thirds of New York City’s Arts and Recreation Jobs Have Been Lost to the Pandemic
Hyperallergic- Employment in the arts, entertainment, and recreation in New York City has experienced the largest decline among the city’s economic sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic, plummeting by 66 percent...
Hurt by Public Response to “The Scream,” Munch Inscribed Hidden “Madman” Message
Hyperallergic - A text scribbled in pencil on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” (1893), which reads the work “could only have been painted by a madman,” is by the artist’s hand, new findings reveal. Curators at the N...
Spotlight: BOSS
“The ART must be seen with the heart…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with BOSS
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in Neo-Fauvism?
BOSS: The link with fauvism came late colorist above...
Donghoon Sohn enhances the beauty of imprecision
domus - Chairs, benches and small tables created by the Seoul-based designer who, inspired by the club sandwich, explores new formal and material possibilities from pressed sheets of recycled plastic. - read mo...
A line of stools inspired by Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s engravings
domus - The Stele stools designed by artist Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi with Doodesign take the form of ancient ruins: pieces of columns with iridescent colours and strong expressive intensity. - read more ...
The Challenge and Allure of Portraying Sex in Art Today
artsy - Sex is one of the oldest subjects in the history of art, but never has it looked the way it does in 2021. Depictions of sex and art have always been entangled—Picasso even went as far to suggest that t...
The Story of Women Artists in Revolution, a Movement Against Patriarchy
Hyperallergic - In a powerful 2019 essay in Artforum, Hannah Black, Ciarán Finlayson, and Tobi Haslett made the case that artists who were slated for exhibition in the 2019 Whitney Biennial had a moral obligati...
Architects Dreaming of a Future With No Buildings
NY Times - The illustration depicts an entourage of local luminaries, including Dante, the poet, and the painters Leonardo da Vinci and Giotto. Many would view the scene as a tribute to Florence’s historic gold...