Black Art Has Its Moment, Finally
The New York Times - What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museums, commercial ...
Soft neural implant allows scientists to manipulate brain cells via smartphone
de zeen - Brain disease research could be sped up using a smartphone-controlled "plug-and-play" neural implant invented by scientists from the USA and South Korea. - read more ...
Will Instagram Ever ‘Free the Nipple’?
The New York Times - Photographers have learned to be inventive in evading Instagram’s ban on female nipples. They’ve used paint, glitter, hair and flower petals to obscure them. - read more ...
New Berlin foundation turns AI into immersive art
The Art Newspaper - A new non-profit art foundation has launched in Berlin to create exhibitions exploring scientific innovation in art, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and qu...
AI Technology Helped Researchers Discover 143 Ancient Geoglyphs
Hyperallergic - Archaeologists in Yamagata, Japan said they have discovered a cluster of enormous, ancient geoglyphs in Southern Peru. The discovery was made with the help of cutting-edge artificial intelligenc...
Abstract Expressionist Titans Drive Sales at Sotheby’s Contemporary Auction
Artsy - Sotheby’s evening sale of contemporary art on Thursday was marked by protracted bidding wars for major artworks. - read more
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The Big Review: Leonardo at the Louvre
The Art Newspaper -The celebrations of artists of the past have rarely acquired a political dimension, as has been the case with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). One may recall that the legacy of this universal ...
Artemisia Gentileschi Rakes in $5.3 Million; Souls Grown Deep Announces Four Museum Acquisitions
Hyperallergic - The dust has settled from a $1.1 billion New York Fall Auction Week. In a predictable bummer, post-auction reports from ArtTactic indicate that work by male artists comprised 98% of the major Im...
At the Entrenched Met Museum, the New Director Shakes Things Up
The New York Times - One year into the job, Max Hollein shows that art shouldn’t be seen solely through a Western lens. - read more...
What Auction House Estimates Really Mean—and What They Can Tell Us
artsy - The overarching narrative of last week’s marquee art auctions in New York was that all the key players—auction houses, consignors, and bidders—were being cautious. You could hear the prognostications of...