The third (RED) auction raised a total $10.5 million including matching funds by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the fight against AIDS. Curated by art and architecture stars Theaster Gates and Sir David Adjaye in collaboration...
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Christie’s auctioned off an artificial intelligence (AI) artwork for the first time this past October, hard on the heels of a pioneering all-AI art exhibition held at New Delhi gallery Nature Morte. While the market is eager to move...
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The exhibition’s proceeds will benefit a throat and neck cancer charity. Eight years after the self-propelled rise to fame of street artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash, was documented in Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop documentary, the...
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The words we use to talk about art can often seem opaque—and not just when they take the form of foreign languages like French and German. Yet this lexicon is an invaluable tool to have in your arsenal when...
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More than ever, female artists are breaking sales records and being recognized for their role in important art movements. Once, when asked about discrimination against female artists, the Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner said the bias was as old...
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British artist Jenny Saville became famous for paintings that render female flesh on a monumental scale. Her canvases, often larger than 6 by 6 feet, magnify the raw details of embodied experience: large, drooping breasts; pregnant bellies and flab;...
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The British street artist Banksy and the auction house, brought some calculated spectacle to the evening’s proceedings. Sotheby’s managed to squeeze two sales and a prank into its Frieze week evening auction of contemporary art on last Friday....
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By almost any measure, women still don’t have parity in the art world, whether it is the number of solo museum shows, institutional directorships or major gallery representation. In that context, Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the sibling art...
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According to ancient Greek legend, the artist Zeuxis, who lived around the 5th century B.C. rendered grapes so realistically, that birds flew into his painting in attempts to eat the fruit. People have enjoyed such painterly illusions for millennia....
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A corporate art collection can be a great asset to any company. Art collections provide the opportunity to support your local arts community. When chosen well, it can boost your brand and it helps to create a positive ambiance...
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