Gregor Doc Davids
Thoughts on Carl Wilson, 2018 art glass and steel, 25” x 25”
Green Card, 2017, art glass, 12” x12”
Rainy Day, 2017, art glass, 15” x 15”
Force Field I, 2014, art glass and wood, 39” x 39”
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Discovering King Tutankhamun’s tomb: Harry Burton’s photographs
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
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
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...
Will Robert Indiana’s legacy get stuck in a legal battle
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
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
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?
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?
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
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...