August 2018 – Page 2

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UNStudio completes enormous Raffles City Hangzhou complex featuring twisted glass towers

August 22, 2018

dezeen - The project is the largest single building completed by UNStudio, which is headed by architect Ben van Berkel. The studio even opened a new Shanghai office, in 2009, to oversee its design and constru...

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Rolls-Royce reveals concept for electric flying vehicle with vertical takeoff and landing

Artery

August 22, 2018

Business Spotlight

dezeen - British aerospace company Rolls-Royce is developing a personal electric flying vehiclethat it says could be on the market by the early 2020s. The company revealed the concept at last weekend's Farn...

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The Mugrabi Family’s Storied Art Collection Has Become a Focal Point in Nasty Divorce Proceedings

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art and Society, Art and the Law

Artnet - Divorce proceedings are moving ahead for billionaire power couple David and Libbie Mugrabi, and the family’s storied art collection appears to have become a big point of contention. “There has been ...

Found guilty in 1995 of embezzling investors’ money, Roberto Polo resurfaces in role of art benefactor in Spain

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art and Society, Art and the Law

The Art Newspaper - The art world has a short memory, or is it just forgiving where the prospect of having more art to display is concerned? Havana-born Roberto Polo signed an agreement on 25 July with the loca...

How Meditation Has Inspired an Artist’s Vision

Artery

August 22, 2018

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - Artist Aaron Fowler manages to invoke a tricky tension in his interdisciplinary and immersive works. Fowler balances the oversize nature of emotion and human-scale drama with the intimacy of per...

Man hospitalised after falling in Anish Kapoor installation

Artery

August 22, 2018

Museum News, Trending

The Art Newspaper - A visitor to the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Serralves museum in Porto was hospitalised this week after falling inside one of the British artist’s installations, which features a 2.5-metr...

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Christie’s reports record half year sales of £2.97bn

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art Market, Trending

The Art Newspaper -Christie’s reports it has netted its highest ever half year sales total (in pounds not dollars), racking up £2.97bn — a 26% increase on last year. The previous high of £2.9bn was in 2015. The...

A Mexican Artist and Muse Reclaims Her Legacy

Artery

August 22, 2018

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - At the age of 84 and in declining health, Nahui Olin asked to be taken to the grand mansion in Tacubaya where she spent her early childhood. Fiercely independent, Nahui had spent the past three ...

Portrait unveiling of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 2018.

Photo by Pete Souza

Dealer Monique Meloche Is Thriving—Even After a Mega-Gallery Wooed Away Her Biggest Stars. Here’s Why

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art and Society

Artnet - In the art world today, the middle may be the most awkward place to be. Chicago dealer Monique Meloche—who operates squarely in the tenuous “middle-tier” of the market and in the Midwest—knows very wel...

5 Essential Tips for Collecting Prints

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art and Society, Art Collecting

Artsy - Artist have long supplemented their larger practice by making prints: original works, usually on paper, created in numbered editions and produced in collaboration with some kind of press. For would-be c...

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