THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
Smithsonian Magazine - In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look. - read more...
San Francisco and Other Cities Try to Give Artists Steady Income
NY Times - Through pilot programs, cities are giving checks to artists in hopes of allowing them to focus on their creative output instead of having a second job. - read more...
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian - Over the past six months as an Advanced Level Intern at SAAM, I have been engaged in a deep dive into the women artists represented in the museum’s collection. - read more ...
alexis ferrer prints colorful floral motifs on sharp hairdos
Design Boom - after years of exploring hair as a canvas, spanish hairdresser alexis ferrer has developed a new, evolved technique for vibrant, full-color hair printing, culminating in his autumn 2020 collection...
Australian Festival Cancels Artist Project That Would’ve Doused British Flag in Indigenous Blood
Hyperallergic - Australian music and arts festival Dark Mofo recently announced its first major project for the 2021 festival, including an artwork, “Union Flag” by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, that called f...
Selling Art to Pay the Bills Divides the Nation’s Museum Directors
NY Times - Bitter debate has ensued as museum leaders around the country discuss whether to permanently embrace a pandemic-spurred policy that allows the sale of art to cover some operating costs. - read more ...
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 ...