Art and Culture – Page 18

Christo’s Latest Work Weighs 650 Tons and It Floats

June 19, 2018

Art and Culture, Art and Society, Trending

The New York Times - Wearing a hard hat and a cargo jacket, the artist Christo stood on a platform looking over the Serpentine lake one April morning and watched his latest creation come to life. As ducks glide...

British Museum show focuses on Assyrian antiquities

Artery

June 19, 2018

Art and Culture, Museums, Trending

The Art Newspaper - A forthcoming British Museum exhibition on Assyria will draw attention to the recent destruction of antiquities in Iraq. The show, which opens in November, is to focus on King Ashurbanipal,...

Why the French can sell arms and culture to Saudi Arabia, but the US and UK only arms

Artery

May 12, 2018

Art and Culture

The Art Newspaper - The Americans sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the British sell arms to Saudi Arabia, but only the French sell arms and culture to Saudi Arabia. How do they manage it in a part of the world tha...

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Miami’s Design District Gets a Surrealist-inspired Parking Garage

Artery

May 12, 2018

Art and Culture

Modern Magazine - Across the street from two art museums in Miami’s architecturally flamboyant Design District, the city’s latest and arguably weirdest parking garage is almost complete. And that’s saying a lot...

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Diego Rivera Painting Sells for $9.76 M a New Record for Latin American Art at Auction

Artery

May 12, 2018

Art and Culture, Art Market

ARTNEWS - Last night in a jam-packed salesroom at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, a sale of 19th- and 20th-century art from the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller brought $646.1 m...

Visitors look at a Marble statue of a Kouros, representing the Greek physical ideal during the Archaic period (700-480 BC), at the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, California on April 18, 2011. The Getty Villa exhibits classical antiquities collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan art. The Villa is modeled after a Roman country house buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

How Museums Handle Forgeries in Their Collections

Artery

May 12, 2018

Art and Culture, Museum News, Museums, Trending

Artsy - Art forgeries are surprisingly common, to the point that scandals hit the news regularly. No one is safe from deception—forgers can be skilled enough to dupe experts at some of the world’s most prestigi...

Postmasters Looks to Crowdfunding Amid the Mid-Market Squeeze

Artery

April 10, 2018

Art and Culture

Artnet News - Postmasters Gallery needs help and it’s not afraid to say so. The more than 30-year old New York gallery announced today that it has joined Patreon, the digital platform that allows creatives of a...

Is Architecture Still Considered an Art?

Artery

April 10, 2018

Architecture, Art and Culture

Architectural Digest - As the architecture profession becomes increasingly dominated by programs that create buildings by algorithms, and as architectural schools shut down drawing studios, I begin to wonder if...

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Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art

Artery

April 10, 2018

Art and Culture

The New York Times - WIESBADEN, Germany — Multiple art experts were brought in as witnesses here in a case, decided last month, of two men accused of having trafficked in hundreds of forged paintings, all said ...

The Insect That Painted Europe Red

Artery

February 13, 2018

Art and Culture, Art History

BBC - Truly vibrant red was elusive for many years: until a mysterious dye was discovered in Mexico. Devon Van Houten Maldonado reveals how a crushed bug became a sign of wealth and status. -...