Are private commissions the future of authorial photography?
Domus - Many private companies are still among the main promoters of authorial photography, a trend that could become consolidated despite the economic crisis. - read more ...
What Collectors Need to Know from the Art Market 2021 Report
artsy - The art market shrank by 22% in 2020, down from $64.4 billion in sales in 2019 to $50.1 billion last year. That drop, reported in economist Clare McAndrew’s “The Art Market 2021” report (published today...
Basquiat Brings $41.9 Million, Even Amid Digital Gold Rush
NY Times - “Warrior,” a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat that was said to symbolize the struggles of Black men in a white-dominated world, sold for $41.9 million, with fees, at Christie’s auction house in...
NFT, or art in the age of its digital scarcity: your questions, answered
DOMUS - If you follow the digital art world at large, or even if you just follow mainstream news, you've probably heard of NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. What are they, and why are they suddenly all over the pl...
Internal Worlds in the Paintings of Elena Dobrovolskaya
by Christopher Bruni
Elena Dobrovolskaya’s gentle figurative paintings, currently exhibited at Artifact, have a sense of elegance and grace. Paint applied harmoniously coalesces to form remarkably organic and ...
Spotlight: Orit Sharbat
“I just want to let it be…”
Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Orit Sharbat
Paul Zimmerman: How did you develop interest in art?
Orit Sharbat: I grew up in a house full of culture. My parents put...
an intimate view of artist yves klein’s world by shunk-kender
design boom - harry shunk met jános kender in paris, where they would become life and work partners. from the 1950s to the early 1980s, the duo photographed the spectacular effervescence of the artistic avant-...
How Wifredo Lam’s Unique Strand of Surrealism Seduced Collectors
artsy - No artist better exemplifies the rising value of the Latin American art market than Cuban master Wifredo Lam. Last June, in Sotheby’s marquee virtual auction, his kaleidoscopic painting Omi Obini (1943...
France to Return Klimt Painting to Rightful Heirs After Nazi-Era Sale
NY Times - The only painting by Gustav Klimt in the country’s national collection will be returned to the family of a Jewish woman who was forced to sell it. She died in the Holocaust. - read more ...
spider cars the status symbol of the post-war economic boom
domus - The four wheels simply run in the blood of the post-war roadsters, which in Italy – where they come from – where named as “spiders”. The name of the “spider cars” comes from a specific type of horse-dra...