Art and Society

NY Times - A Sotheby’s executive called the court-ordered sale on Monday night “the most valuable single-owner auction ever staged.” - read more ...

DW - The original Superman's son, Jon Kent, has revealed that he is bisexual in a new DC comic. Here are some other LGBTQ figures from the DC and Marvel fantasy worlds. - read more ...

Hyperallergic  - Twenty color photographs from Paz Errázuriz’s La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple) (1982-87), a photographic series that tenderly documented a community of Chilean trans sex workers in Santiago an...

dumus - After an international competition, Ennead Architects has been chosen to design the new International Performance Center in Shenzhen (China), one of the world’s leading technology capitals. - read more ...

The New York Times  - Overdue career tributes and shows on West African textiles and the Great Migration demonstrate museums responding to global movement and demographic shifts. - read more ...

domus - IKEA designed a fleet of eight electric bikes towing a sleeping capsule to give parisians the chance to take a power nap in the afternoon and replenish energy during la rentrée. The benefits of getting ...

Hyperallergic - “Today I’m going to let you in on a little secret,” purrs the Hungarian porn star Cicciolina in a video. “Some of the best porn of all time isn’t on Pornhub. It can only be found in a museum.”  ...

Hyperallergic - In response to appeals from the Ethiopian government, a leather-bound Ethiopian Coptic Bible and a set of Victorian graduated horn beakers were withdrawn from a June 17 sale at Busby, a small au...

NY TIMES  - For decades the monumental 10-panel fresco by Diego Rivera depicting a continent linked by creativity has been mounted in the lobby of a theater at City College of San Francisco. - read more ...

NY TIMES  - BOSTON — By 1984, 24-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat had already broken into the mainstream art world. But the onetime street artist still couldn’t shake the legacy of his teenage years spent writing ...