July 2018 – ArteryNYC

Discovering King Tutankhamun’s tomb: Harry Burton’s photographs

July 25, 2018

BBC - It was one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century. But what was it like to first point a lens into the 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tutankhamun? That job fell to Harry Burto...

Why Art History Is Full of People Taking Baths

Artery

July 25, 2018

Spotlight

Artsy - The figure of the bather is one of the most common visual tropes in Western art history. From ancient Athens to 1920s Paris and beyond, painters and sculptors have presented bathing in a variety of ways...

How to Talk About Whiteness

Artery

July 25, 2018

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - The scholar Sara Ahmed opens her essay “A phenomenology of whiteness” with a series of questions on the project of examining whiteness: “If whiteness gains currency by being unnoticed, then what...

artwork at artist Robert Indiana’s home
CREDIT: Joel Greenberg

Will Robert Indiana’s legacy get stuck in a legal battle

Artery

July 25, 2018

Art and Society, Art and the Law, Artists

The Art Newspaper - What will become of Robert Indiana’s legacy, and who will be in charge of preserving it? The answer might only come out of a closely-watched legal battle over the artist’s estate and his rec...

She Gave Millions to Artists Without Credit. Until Now

Artery

July 25, 2018

Art and Culture

The New York Times - The artist Carrie Mae Weems recalls sitting at her desk in Syracuse in 2014 “feeling very anonymous and misunderstood and trying to figure out how to make some new work” when she got the ca...

Facebook angers Flanders with Rubens ban

Artery

July 25, 2018

Art and Technology

BBC - The removed ad featured the artist's The Descent from the Cross, which shows a bare-chested Jesus.Following the ban, the authority made a satirical video with fake investigators ushering visitors out of a...

Will blockchain deliver a registry of all traded works of art?

Artery

July 25, 2018

Art and Technology

The Art Newspaper - Imagine an art market in which existed an industry-wide registry of all traded works of art, complete with cataloguing details, certificates of authenticity, provenance records and sale pric...

Will blockchain deliver a registry of all traded works of art?

Artery

July 25, 2018

Uncategorized

The Art Newspaper - What will become of Robert Indiana’s legacy, and who will be in charge of preserving it? The answer might only come out of a closely-watched legal battle over the artist’s estate and his rec...

Some of the World’s Most Striking iPhone Images

Artery

July 25, 2018

Art and Society

Hyperallergic - Finalists from the 11th annual iPhone Photography Awards were released on Friday. Photographers across the world — based in over 140 countries — sent in their most awe-striking creative and docu...

‘Junk’ art stash may yield multi-million dollar masterpieces

Artery

July 24, 2018

Art and Society, Art Market, Artists

DW - New York gallery owner David Killen believes he has uncovered six paintings by Dutch-American abstract master Willem de Kooning, which — if verified — could be worth tens of millions of dollars. The wo...

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