Nan Goldin’s New Show Is a Raw, Emotional View into the Dangers of Addiction
artsy - Two days after the opening of her first exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, Nan Goldin staged a “die-in” protest across town in London. - read more ...
Most Know Photographer Dóra Maar as Picasso’s Spurned Lover. But a New Exhibition Argues We Got Her Story All Wrong
Artnet - For many people, Dóra Maar is simply Picasso’s jilted ex-girlfriend, an independent spirit who turned into his clingy “weeping woman.” - read more ...
Brice Marden’s Latest Breakthrough
Hyperallergic- The argument between drawing (line and contour) and painting (color and light) goes back to the Renaissance and what some believe is the first great culmination of Western painting. - read more ...
Court Rules That Picasso’s Electrician Stole 271 of the Artist’s Works
Hyperallergic- It’s lights-out for Picasso’s electrician! In the end to a shocking tale of intrigue and litigation, France’s high appeals court upheld a suspended two-year sentence against former electrician Pi...
The UN’s World Health Organization Says Art Is a Powerful Prescription
Hyprerallergic - “Art is a wound that turns into light,” once said 20th-century artist Georges Braque. His words ring truer than ever in the wake of a comprehensive new study published by the World Health Organ...
France Vowed to Return Looted Treasures But Few Are Heading Back
New York Times - A year ago this week, in a pioneering announcement, President Emmanuel Macron of France said that his country would give back 26 looted treasures to the African state of Benin. - read more...
Black Art Has Its Moment, Finally
The New York Times - What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museums, commercial ...
Soft neural implant allows scientists to manipulate brain cells via smartphone
de zeen - Brain disease research could be sped up using a smartphone-controlled "plug-and-play" neural implant invented by scientists from the USA and South Korea. - read more ...
Will Instagram Ever ‘Free the Nipple’?
The New York Times - Photographers have learned to be inventive in evading Instagram’s ban on female nipples. They’ve used paint, glitter, hair and flower petals to obscure them. - read more ...
New Berlin foundation turns AI into immersive art
The Art Newspaper - A new non-profit art foundation has launched in Berlin to create exhibitions exploring scientific innovation in art, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and qu...