The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) has acquired a prefabricated capsule of the famous Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, a 20th century architectural experiment Metabolist design like The …
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In a post-crypto-crash Art Basel, tech-enabled art strives to blend in and look like…paint?
Where has all the crypto-art gone? After the big busts of 2022, apparently everyone is buying and selling at great-chic swiss fair Art Basel closed their digital wallets. The NFT-based …
James R. Hedges IV started buying Andy Warhol photographs about 20 years ago, initially hoping to collect enough Polaroids to complete a grid of nine images. Today, the California-based advisor …
Activists plan day of action, online and in New York museums, against social media art censorship
A coalition of art workers is calling on the art world to push back against social media censorship with a day of action targeting tech companies. Don’t Delete Art, a …
In a first, archaeologists in the UK have used 3D scans to study a mysterious Roman burial practice
For the first time, archaeologists from York University in England have used 3D scanning to study a little-known burial practice from the ancient Romans, revealing details of the burial of …
Ben Luke talks to Jacqueline Humphries about her influences – from writers to filmmakers, musicians and, of course, other artists – and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life …
‘Every politician’ must see Steve McQueen’s Grenfell fire film, says former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on tragedy’s sixth anniversary
On the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged all politicians to see Steve McQueen’s searing film of the tragedy. The 24-minute …
The gallery of rascals? Three reasons why the art market is vulnerable to wrongdoing
It is with sadness that I read of the troubles of eminent artistic adviser Lisa Schiff, who is currently the target of two lawsuits claiming that she had defrauded clients …
Sotheby’s will offer a rare portrait of Klimt in London with a staggering estimate of $80 million, which could set a European record
Just weeks after a Gustav Klimt seascape landed in Sotheby’s top impressionist lots of the spring season, the auction house has unveiled another rare portrait of Klimt—and it has the …
Gustav Klimt’s latest portrait has the highest estimate ever put on a painting in Europe at over $65 million
The latest portrait painted by Gustav Klimt will bring the highest estimate ever for a painting in Europe or the UK when it appears at Sotheby’s in London in June, …