Contemporary Artists Pay Tribute to Bosch’s Powerful Imagination
Hyperallergic - Hieronymus Bosch’s fantastical, large-scale triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights” has enthralled and mystified viewers for centuries. - read more ...
Getting a Grip on Unreality
NY Times - In dreams you can go anywhere; in dreams no place is too far. “Surrealism Beyond Borders,” a round-the-world tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a map of another globe: a planet redrawn by art...
A Collector of Antiques Asks: “Can Something Be Racist and Also Be Beautiful?”
Hyperallergic - SAGINAW, Mich. — At the beginning of my guided tour through the Blactiquing Space, collector and curator Kevin Jones asked me a provocative, challenging question: Can something be racist and als...
A Deep Dive Into Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’
The New York Times - In a coming exhibition, MoMA will feature the artworks within this famed painting. Two of them will be on public view for the first time in 50 years. - read more ...
Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era Published3 days ago
BBC - When the carvings were first discovered in 2018, researchers estimated they were created about 2,000 years ago.
This was based on their similarity to reliefs at Jordan's famous ancient city...
Strapped for Cash, Mexico Will Re-Bury a Tunnel Filled With Aztec Petroglyphs
artnet news - When a historic tunnel was discovered on the outskirts of Mexico City two years ago, the government decided to turn the archaeological site into a tourist attraction. - read more ...
How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back
NY Times - A video installation by Wu Tsang with Beverly Glenn-Copeland is part of a series of shows with a shared political charge, a taste of what can be. - read more ...
Banksy’s artwork up for auction, without his knowledge
Domus - There has been much talk about Spike lately, the work attributed to the British artist Banksy. Now owned by the Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo, the artwork is soon to be sold as a NFT on the auction pl...
A Painting Bought at a Small Town Dump for $4 Turned Out to Be by David Bowie—and It Just Sold for More Than $87,000
artnet news - A David Bowie painting that originally sold for just less than $5 at a Canadian landfill has set a new auction record for the artist and musician. The work has sold for a cool CA$108,120 ($87,789...
The evolution of Land Art from Walter De Maria to Doug Aitken
domus - “I first met Walter in downtown New York. We had lunch on a cold winter afternoon.” With these words, Doug Aitken – an artworld star anointed with a Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale – describes ...