Banksy’s Rapidly Rising Market, Explained
Artsy - Banksy has closely guarded his identity for decades, and he’s also long played a uniquely active role in shaping the way his work is presented and sold. - read more ...
Deborah Roberts’s Gripping Collages Reconfigure Black Girlhood
artsy - Deborah Roberts wasn’t born a triplet, but she often felt like it growing up. Two of her sisters and herself were all born within two years of each other. - read more ...
In His Own Words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA
NY Times - Shuttered since March by the coronavirus pandemic, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are reopening with limited visitorship, various admonitions about masks and social dist...
At 85, Hsiao Chin Continues to Challenge the Eurocentric Legacy of Abstract Art
artsy - In the midst of the Cold War, Shanghai-born artist Hsiao Chin (萧勤) moved from Taipei to Madrid, spending his twenties exhibiting across Europe and expanding Western conceptions of Chinese art. Hsiao pus...
Mary Cassatt’s Independent, Feminist Spirit
Hyperallergic - Poor Mary Cassatt. She spent most of her headstrong life as an independent woman abroad, working alongside the bad boys of the Paris avant-garde, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro. But we tend to ...
How Galleries Are Supporting and Signing New Artists during the Pandemic
Artsy - The economic fallout from COVID-19 has had much of the art world bracing for the worst. According to a survey conducted by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) in May, U.S. galleries projected ...
anonymous artist banksy has donated a painting to honor hero hospital workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
designboom - anonymous artist banksy has donated a painting to honor hero hospital workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. the monochrome illustration depicts a young boy playing with a caped nurse, who is wearin...
The Enduring Legacy of Ruth Asawa’s Mesmerizing Sculptures
artsy - Despite some industry apprehension to put her work up for auction, in 2013, a massive Ruth Asawa sculpture, titled Untitled (S.108 Hanging, Six-Lobed, Multi-Layered Continuous Form Within a Form) (lat...
Käthe Kollwitz’s Art Was Compassionate, Subversive, and Politically Outspoken
artsy- The artist did not shy away from presenting the worst of the human experience. In her paintings and lithographs, she captured the sudden misfortunes that life puts in our path. She once wrote, “I agree...
salman khoshroo weaves wool portraits based on his experience of quarantine
desinboom- Iranian artist salman khoshroo has created a series of woolen portraits based on his experience of quarantine during theCOVID-19 pandemic. khoshroo says that the therapeutic process of weaving ...