ART • WEEKEND Lee Krasner’s Early Prophecies
Hyperallergic - The British art establishment often does the world a favor by spotlighting a vanguard American who has been undervalued Stateside. In 1965, - read more ...
A Film Made to Be Watched on Instagram Exposes the Tricks of Influencer Culture
Hyperallectric - Instagram is simultaneously a glossy photo gallery, an art market space, a platform for brands, and seemingly a way for the average person to become famous and amass a healthy amount of money. ...
de zeen
de zeen - Austrian design firm EOOS and a Swiss water research institute have teamed up to create a toilet for Laufen that tackles the "urgent" environmental issue of pollution caused by wastewater. - read mo...
A “Sorcerer’s Treasure Trove” Uncovered in Pompeii
Hyperallergic - Archeologists working in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy, say they have unearthed a cache of amulets, good luck charms, gems, and other items of sorcery. The objects likely belonged to a Roma...
Inside a Vanished Hub of Beijing’s Experimental-Art Scene
The New Yorker - On July 11th, the Art Newspaper reported that scores of Chinese police in riot gear had descended on Roma Lake, a budding art district near the Beijing airport, and forced artists out of their ...
Brad Kenny
Black & White, 2016, oil on canvas, 47’’ x 35.5’’
Overthinking, 2017, oil on canvas, 39’’ x 35.5’’
Hollow Stare, 2018, oil on canvas, 39’’ x 31.5’’
Family Man, 2018, oil on canvas, 39’’ x 31.5’...
Understanding Vermeer’s Mysteries, beyond “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
Artsy - Only about 34 canvases survive from Johannes Vermeer’s enigmatic oeuvre (a 35th is disputed). The Dutch artist’s most famous work is undoubtedly Girl with a Pearl Earring (ca. 1665), which features a “t...
The Limits of Edvard Munch’s Radicalism
Hyperallergic - Retrospectives of long-dead artists are not merely an opportunity to examine how their philosophies and aesthetics match up to the modern day. They are often explicitly sold on the notion of en...
How Provincetown Became a Radical Art Haven
artsy - The light and natural, coastal beauty of Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, has inspired artists for over a century. “Provincetown is a place of contrasts: a rugged, rural site with...
NY collector says he was duped into selling Brancusi sculpture
The Art Newspaper - A New York collector has filed a $200m lawsuit against a lawyer whom he claims persuaded him to sell a Brancusi sculpture for only $100,000 with the understanding that he would be amply comp...