August 2018 – Page 2

How Meditation Has Inspired an Artist’s Vision

August 22, 2018

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

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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

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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...

Italy scraps free Sundays at cultural sites like Pompeii and the Colosseum

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art and Society, Museum News, Museums

The Art Newspaper - The new culture minister of Italy’s populist coalition government, Alberto Bonisoli, has sparked mixed reactions with the announcement that a monthly free-entry initiative at the country’s m...

Exhibition view of RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder, Redbull Arts New York, in New York City, New York USA, April 3, 2018. All artwork © 2018 The Rammellzee Estate

Sotheby’s in deal to sell estate of hip-hop pioneer and graffiti artist Rammellzee

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art and Culture, Artists

The Art Newspaper - Techno-poet, Gothic futurist, graffiti artist, rapper, philosopher or… an equation? Such are the diverse and eccentric descriptions of Rammellzee, a cult figure in the New York hip-hop scene...

Meet Artmyn, the Swiss Super-Scanner That Allows You to See Artworks That Would Otherwise Crumble Into Dust

Artery

August 22, 2018

Archeology, Art and Technology

Artnet - The P66 Manuscript, which dates back to the second or third century, is likely the oldest New Testament manuscript in the world. It lives in a safe at the Bodmer Foundation in Cologny, Switzerland, and...

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Adults and children encouraged to play in Mikiya Kobayashi’s whimsical park

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August 22, 2018

Art and Culture

dezeen -A whimsical park-like exhibition curated by Japanese designer Mikiya Kobayashi featured five fabric-covered playground pieces. Held at his Tokyo design shop last month, Kobayashi's Playscape provided t...

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