What Sold at Zona Maco
Artsy - There’s no question that the hundreds of collectors, dealers, and museum types who descended on Mexico City this week for a trio of art fairs have a terrific time enjoying the city’s world-class museums...
Back When Painting Was Dead
Hyperallergic - It is routine to characterize the 1970s as a decade dominated by Conceptual Art, and artists such as Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, and Mel Bochner. Part of this thinking is market...
Vienna marks 100 years since artistic heyday
DW - Not only did Austria's most famous artist, Gustav Klimt, die in Vienna (on February 6 ) in 1918; so did the painter Egon Schiele (October 31), architect Otto Wagner, (April 11) and craftsman, graphic artis...
Here Are the 15 Biggest Art-World Controversies of the Year
ArtNet News - From Dana Schutz's notorious painting to divisive animal art at the Guggenheim, 2017 was chock full of debate, discussion, and protest. - read more ...
9 of the World’s Weirdest Museums
Artsy - One might think that a museum devoted to hunting and nature housed in an 18th-century aristocratic residence on Paris’s Right Bank would be stuffy and rather ethically contentious. In the case of the Mu...
MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers
MoMA - Interestingly, as the aura and familiarity of MoMA-anointed landmarks ebbs and flows, you may find yourself on your own, responding in less filtered ways to what you see. This should occur more frequentl...
2017 in culture: The best, the worst, and the surprising
DW - No one can accuse 2017 of being an uneventful year. In the light of global political scandals and humanitarian crises with no end in sight, culture and arts often provided us with much-needed spiritual rel...
Native American Artists Garner Recognition at Last
The Art Newspaper - Controversy over the disputed Cherokee identity of the artist Jimmie Durham—who is not enrolled in any tribe—has erupted this year as his major retrospective, organised by the Hammer Museum ...
German museums report 2.5 million drop in visitor numbers in 2016
The Art Newspaper - The number of visits to German museums fell by 2.2% in 2016 from the previous year, with museums focussed on art and cultural history bearing the brunt of the decline, according to the Germa...
A Puzzle Game Inspired by the Mathematics of Islamic Art
Hyperallergic - “I think we can explore mathematics in different ways,” game developer Mahdi Bahrami told Hyperallergic. “If someone is not able to solve an equation on paper, that doesn’t mean he she is bad a...