Is the nude selfie a new art form?
BBC - As a new book is released exploring the modern, smartphone-facilitated phenomenon of 'sending nudes', Holly Williams reflects on the lineage of naked self-representation it continues. - read more ...
What Collectors Need to Know from the Art Market 2021 Report
artsy - The art market shrank by 22% in 2020, down from $64.4 billion in sales in 2019 to $50.1 billion last year. That drop, reported in economist Clare McAndrew’s “The Art Market 2021” report (published today...
NFT, or art in the age of its digital scarcity: your questions, answered
DOMUS - If you follow the digital art world at large, or even if you just follow mainstream news, you've probably heard of NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. What are they, and why are they suddenly all over the pl...
France to Return Klimt Painting to Rightful Heirs After Nazi-Era Sale
NY Times - The only painting by Gustav Klimt in the country’s national collection will be returned to the family of a Jewish woman who was forced to sell it. She died in the Holocaust. - read more ...
A Pandemic-Driven Love Affair With All Things Vintage
NY Times - It’s not often that Home Union, a vintage home furnishings store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, gets its hands on a 1970s Mads Caprani curved floor lamp. But when it does, the $2,200 Danish fixture sells...
How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan
NY Times - In November 2013, Nora von Achenbach, curator at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, examined the catalog for an upcoming auction by the Paris-based dealer Boisgirard-Antonini. The glo...
From Japan comes a solution for attending theatre while respecting social distancing
domus - Japanese dance company Moonlight Mobile Theater (tsukiakari-theater.jp) renown for their avant-garde performances, has come up with a crafty way of returning to the scene while respecting social distanc...
Why the Art World Needs a Clear Marker for What the ‘End of the Pandemic’ Means
artnet news - Our columnist explores US medical experts' thinking on how to define when to lift public-health restrictions. - read more...
Dallas Museum of Art to Return Sacred Statue to Nepal
NY Times - For more than eight centuries, the sacred stele of Lakshmi-Narayana, a manifestation of the Hindu deities Vishnu and Lakshmi, watched over devotees in the Nepalese city of Patan until it suddenly d...
Palm Springs Takes a Stance Against Desert X Biennial’s Partnership With Saudi Arabia
Hyperallergic - Desert X, the art biennial located in the Coachella Valley that began in 2017, has announced the artists for its 2021 edition. Curated by Cesar García-Alvarez and Neville Wakefield, this third e...