December 2017 – ArteryNYC

Miami Art Basel: where art reckons with technology

December 30, 2017

The Verge - The Moon glowed against tufts of eerie night clouds. A few hundred people joined Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, the Dutch founders of Studio Drift to wait in anticipation. If the winds kicked up, ...

Circling Back to Kenneth Noland

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December 30, 2017

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - Kenneth Noland, like his fellow first-tier, Color field painter, Helen Frankenthaler, is enjoying a strong revival of interest. These artists’ alliance with the powerful and polarizing formalist...

Outcry over Polish government’s changes to Second World War museum

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December 30, 2017

Art and Society

The Art Newspaper - Five hundred Polish and foreign academics have signed an open letter criticising the administration of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland and describing the changes being m...

Erdogan replaces Ataturk’s cultural legacy with his own

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December 30, 2017

Art and Society

The Art Newspaper - The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, unveiled plans for a new opera house and cultural complex on Taksim Square in central Istanbul in November, which will entirely replace the Atatu...

President Donald Trump grabs a box containing the tax bill after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

How the new US tax law affects the art world

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December 30, 2017

Art and Society

The Art Newspaper - On 22 December, US President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a Republican victory that drew criticism from many for favouring corporations and wealthy individuals a...

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UK’s first permanent Virtual Reality space in an arts institution to open in London

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December 30, 2017

Art and Technology

The Art Newspaper - This year saw Virtual Reality (VR) reach new heights and capabilities in the art world and now London is getting its first free and permanent public VR space. London’s Zabludowicz Collection...

Here Are the 15 Biggest Art-World Controversies of the Year

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December 30, 2017

Art and Culture

ArtNet News - From Dana Schutz's notorious painting to divisive animal art at the Guggenheim, 2017 was chock full of debate, discussion, and protest. - read more ...

9 of the World’s Weirdest Museums

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December 30, 2017

Art and Culture, Museums

Artsy - One might think that a museum devoted to hunting and nature housed in an 18th-century aristocratic residence on Paris’s Right Bank would be stuffy and rather ethically contentious. In the case of the Mu...

MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers

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December 29, 2017

Art and Culture, Museum News, Museums

MoMA - Interestingly, as the aura and familiarity of MoMA-anointed landmarks ebbs and flows, you may find yourself on your own, responding in less filtered ways to what you see. This should occur more frequentl...

See the 10 Biggest Museum Acquisitions of 2017

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December 29, 2017

Auctions, Trending

Artnet News - This power year in the art world peaked with Christie’s historic showstopper auction, as Leonardo da Vinci‘s Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million to a mysterious buyer, who has since turned out (a...

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