Imagine you stumble across a website selling watches. Hand-made watches and you are a watch collector! You spend some time perusing the website and you find a watch that you love. In fact, you love it so much you want to purchase it. But there’s no price. And you don’t […]
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Art Antwerp | 2nd Edition, 15-18.12.2022
About Art Antwerp The fair was born in 2021 after a prolonged period during which no events could occur due to the pandemic and when art fairs were beginning to re-emerge in many cities around the world. There was a strong sense that art lovers were keen to revisit fairs, […]
Grief and Rage as Iran Executes Mohsen Shekari by Hanging
Mohsen Shekari (via Twitter) Iranian activist Mohsen Shekari was executed in Tehran on Thursday, December 8, after 75 days in custody for his participation in the mass demonstrations calling for freedom from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Shekari, 23, was arrested and detained on September 25 for blocking Sattar Khan […]
How You Want to Be Perceived as an Artist
Not too long ago, artists didn’t have to worry about things like their brands. But in an increasingly competitive market, and the noisy online space, we will do better when we know where we fit. A brand is not a logo. Let’s be clear. A brand is not a logo. […]
MAKING A MARK: Dear Facebook
Yesterday I wrote about about the RSW Open Call for Entries – and then posted it to Facebook. Later I took a look at it to see if there had been any comments – but the post had received very few visitors and I couldn’t work out why. Today I […]
Medieval Hungary: The Island – Saint Margaret and the Dominicans (new exhibition in Budapest)
A new temporary exhibition opened at the Budapest History Museum, dedicated to St Margaret and the Dominican monastery on Margaret Island. The story and fate of Saint Margaret, the thirteenth-century saintly princess, has always captured the imagination of people interested in history. The exhibition offers visitors a selection of artifacts […]
Cheng Cheng Yi “Dragon Summoner” Limited Edition Print – Available November 10th – StreetArtNews
Chinese contemporary artist Cheng Cheng Yi have collaborated with ArtPort for his latest limited edition screenprint entitled “Dragon Summoner”. Dragon Summoner comes in an edition of 25 and measures 70 x 56 cm. The print features Yi’s signature characters that often tell stories about adolescence and the dreams of the young generation. Born in 1985, […]
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Dumps Ye’s Honorary Degree
This gives a whole new meaning to “Graduation.” (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) As rapper Ye’s (formerly Kanye West) incendiary rants become more offensive and unhinged, brands and institutions that once platformed and lauded the celebrity are hastening to put distance between themselves and his virulently antisemitic propagandizing. From the October […]
Near the Border, Artists Fight for Self-Preservation
LAS CRUCES, N. Mex. — Before the creation of geopolitical borders and their bloody effects on marginalized communities, the Chihuahuan Desert was already a tremendously inhospitable place. The Sierra Madre, blocking wind and humidity from the east and west, helps make the region a violent environment with extreme weather, scarce […]
Sybaris Collection © | The Macklowe Collection: The Most Valuable Art Collection Ever Sold
The Macklowe Collection became last night (May 16) the highest valued art collection ever sold in auction history for $9222.2m. After a first auction hosted in Novemeber 2021 by Sotheby’s, which part of the collection reachead a total of $676.1 million, yesterdad the second part of a collection reached an […]