December 2017 – Page 2

2017 in culture: The best, the worst, and the surprising

December 29, 2017

DW - No one can accuse 2017 of being an uneventful year. In the light of global political scandals and humanitarian crises with no end in sight, culture and arts often provided us with much-needed spiritual rel...

Constantin Brancusi, La muse endormie (1913). Courtesy Christie’s

Beyond Leonardo: the artists who led the auctions in 2017

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December 29, 2017

Auctions, Trending

The Art Newspaper - After suffering from a dearth of top works in the preceding two years, owing to economic jitters sparked by geopolitical uncertainty, the Impressionist and Modern market saw a comeback in c...

Why Jasper Johns Is an Icon of 20th-Century Painting

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December 16, 2017

Spotlight

Artsy - This past fall, the 87-year-old American artist Jasper Johns revealed plans to turn his 170-acre retreat in rural Sharon, Connecticut, into an artists’ residence upon his death. Recognized as one of Am...

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World exhibition

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December 16, 2017

Spotlight

Art in America - First the good news. “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” now appearing at the Guggenheim Museum in New York through January 7, samples China’s most fertile and challenging post-Ma...

Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power: She Uses It for Change

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December 16, 2017

Artists, Spotlight

NY Times - BERLIN — Blurry selfies, pixelated screen shots, Photoshop disasters: Low-quality, mass-reproduced pictures flood our screens every day. They are easy to dismiss, but the German artist Hito Steyerl m...

Why the Getty Center’s Art Stayed Put as Fires Raged Nearby

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December 16, 2017

Art and Society, Museum News, Museums

The New York Times - Visitors come to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to see Vincent van Gogh’s irises and other great works. What they don’t see is the reason that these masterpieces could stay put while thous...

Hudson Yards centerpiece “Vessel” tops out

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December 16, 2017

Art and Technology

The Architects Newspaper - The 150-foot tall, bronzed-steel and concrete Vessel is designed to react to its surroundings in both material and function. Containing over 2,400 steps, 80 landings and 154 flights o...

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Native American Artists Garner Recognition at Last

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December 16, 2017

Art and Culture, Artists

The Art Newspaper - Controversy over the disputed Cherokee identity of the artist Jimmie Durham—who is not enrolled in any tribe—has erupted this year as his major retrospective, organised by the Hammer Museum ...

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Looking for America at Art Basel Miami Beach

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December 16, 2017

Art Fairs, Trending

Hyperallergic - The 16th incarnation of Art Basel Miami Beach was supposed to have “a new energy,” as Noah Horowitz, director of the Americas for Art Basel, told the New York Times. It’s true. The booths are la...

Why Experts Don’t Believe This Is a Rare First Map of America

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December 15, 2017

Uncategorized

NY Times - The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by the famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. It features ...

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