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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...
Eight Artist Withdraw From Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Ties to Tear Gas
NY Times - Eight artists have asked the Whitney Museum of American Art to remove their works from this year’s Biennial, citing what they describe as the museum’s lack of response to calls for the resignation of...
Inside Hushed Museum Hallways, a Rumble Over Pay Grows Louder
The NY Times - The art handlers at the Guggenheim work under some unusual conditions, having to hang paintings slightly askew and tilted to account for the museum’s sloped floors and curved walls. - read more ...