July 2019 – ArteryNYC

Understanding Vermeer’s Mysteries, beyond “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

July 24, 2019

Artsy - Only about 34 canvases survive from Johannes Vermeer’s enigmatic oeuvre (a 35th is disputed). The Dutch artist’s most famous work is undoubtedly Girl with a Pearl Earring (ca. 1665), which features a “t...

The Limits of Edvard Munch’s Radicalism

Artery

July 24, 2019

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - Retrospectives of long-dead artists are not merely an opportunity to examine how their philosophies and aesthetics match up to the modern day. They are often explicitly sold on the notion of en...

How Provincetown Became a Radical Art Haven

Artery

July 24, 2019

Art and Society

artsy - The light and natural, coastal beauty of Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, has inspired artists for over a century. “Provincetown is a place of contrasts: a rugged, rural site with...

NY collector says he was duped into selling Brancusi sculpture

Artery

July 24, 2019

Art and Society

The Art Newspaper - A New York collector has filed a $200m lawsuit against a lawyer whom he claims persuaded him to sell a Brancusi sculpture for only $100,000 with the understanding that he would be amply comp...

Eight Artist Withdraw From Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Ties to Tear Gas

Artery

July 24, 2019

Art and Society

NY Times - Eight artists have asked the Whitney Museum of American Art to remove their works from this year’s Biennial, citing what they describe as the museum’s lack of response to calls for the resignation of...

Inside Hushed Museum Hallways, a Rumble Over Pay Grows Louder

Artery

July 24, 2019

Art and Society

The NY Times - The art handlers at the Guggenheim work under some unusual conditions, having to hang paintings slightly askew and tilted to account for the museum’s sloped floors and curved walls. - read more ...

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Scientists develop “greenhouse shields” to grow food on Mars

Artery

July 24, 2019

Art and Technology

de zeen - Researchers at Harvard University have devised a way to terraform Mars by placing sheets of silica aerogel on the planet's surface, which would warm it up to make it suitable for growing plants. - re...

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Benedict Redgrove photographs NASA artefacts from five decades of space travel

Artery

July 24, 2019

Art and Technology

de zeen - British photographer Benedict Redgrove has taken photographs of numerous artefacts within the NASA archive. To mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, he has picked out his favourites. - read m...

India Mahdavi’s striped scenography provides backdrop for furniture exhibition

Artery

July 24, 2019

Architecture, Art and Technology

de zeen - The exhibition presents more than 60 pieces from the Parisian institution's 20th-century collection at the Cercle Naval de Toulon – a heritage-listed 1930s building designed to host receptions for th...

Tel Aviv museum showcases climate change solutions

Artery

July 23, 2019

Art and Technology

DW - Just a few days ago, the sizzling winds of the "sharav" desert storm swept across Tel Aviv, resulting in record temperatures throughout Israel of up to 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit). With its air con...

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