Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess
NY Times - Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin revolutionized fashion photography from the late 1960s through the ’70s with sexy pictures that were kinky and edgy. - read more ...
Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception
NY Times - Picasso, Braque and Gris learned new tricks from old masters of optical illusion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, they shatter modern art to pieces. - read more ...
The painter who revealed how our eyes really see the world
BBC - In 1881, Paul Gauguin joked about how to extract Cézanne's mysterious methods, instructing Camille Pissarro to "ply him with one of those mysterious homeopathic drugs and come straight to Paris to share t...
Oops! Famous Mondrian Painting Hung Upside Down for 75 Years
Hyperallergic - In news that is sure to delight detractors of modern art, an abstract painting by Piet Mondrian at a German museum was found to have been hanging upside down ever since it was first exhibited — ...
Ten photography exhibitions not to be missed this fall
domus - A major fall comeback is expected in Paris from November 8. The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is attempting to bring together two great and highly celebrated authors of the 20th century, Henri Cartier...
The Allure of Self-Taught Art
Smithsonian Magazine - In the beginning, the weathervanes pointed the way. While scouring antique shops in the 1970s, Margaret Z. Robson purchased rustic, handmade barn toppers along with other handmade bits o...
“Unusually Large” Roman-Era Stone Phallus Impresses Archaeologists
Hyperallergic - We all know that size doesn’t matter, but archaeologists are nonetheless aflutter over a massive stone penis unearthed last month amidst excavation of Roman ruins in an Iberian archaeological si...
From Petra to Jean Nouvel: the legacy of Nabataean architecture
domus - Two thousand years later, the fascination of the way of life of an ancient Bedouin people comes to the present day, amidst the contradictions of mass tourism and the ideal of a symbiosis between archit...
How Auctions Identify the Next Big Artists and Trends
Artsy - Auctions prophesize the rise of art stars and identify trends in the contemporary scene through financial returns. While many spectators cast their attention toward biennials as harbingers of what is to...
Spring Auction Sales for Two Blockbuster Weeks Top $2.5 Billion
NY Times - Two blockbuster weeks of marquee evening sales ended in Manhattan on Thursday night with doubleheader Sotheby’s auctions of rising stars and established contemporary names that raised a combined $283...