The Best Art of 2018
The New York Times - When the going gets rough, there’s always art. It can soothe and teach you, and arm you with new tools and perspectives with which to face the world. This year had some great winners and o...
Richard Meier steps down following sexual harassment allegations
de zeen - Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is leaving his eponymous firm to be spearheaded by new management, following the accusations of sexual harassment made against him earlier this year. - r...
McDonald’s, Perrier, and other brands appropriated Banksy’s shredded painting for ads
Artsy -McDonald’s creative agencies, apparently unaware of where Banksy’s allegiances lie, have swiftly begun appropriating the artist’s recent auction house stunt for branding purposes. “We got Banksy’d” is h...
Artists join forces in bid to swing US midterm elections
The Art Newspaper - Artist-run organisation For Freedoms’ country-wide initiative is a rallying point—even in right-leaning states. - read more ...
How Dealers Turn Under-Appreciated Artists into Blue-Chip Names
Artsy - Like many dealers, Almine Rech, who runs galleries in Paris, New York, Brussels, and London, enjoys identifying rising young artists such as (37) to join her program. But she’s just as likely to hunt f...
Free love and women: The sexual revolution 50 years on
DW - The "sexual morals" of postwar West Germany were characterized by taboos and ominous warnings. Masturbating could lead to a degenerative disease, so they said; an erection was an abnormal swelling; the fem...
Photographers Who Captured the Ecstasy and Abandon of Rave Culture
Artsy - In the summer of 1989, amid the sweltering heat of one of the driest summers in the U.K. in three centuries, the countercultural spirit of electronic dance parties, or raves, spread across the nation. ...
Salvator Mundi will not go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi this month, for reasons unknown
The Art Newspaper- Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi will not be unveiled at the Louvre Abu Dhabi this month as planned, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has announced. - Read ...
The Mugrabi Family’s Storied Art Collection Has Become a Focal Point in Nasty Divorce Proceedings
Artnet - Divorce proceedings are moving ahead for billionaire power couple David and Libbie Mugrabi, and the family’s storied art collection appears to have become a big point of contention.
“There has been ...