When Duchamp Agreed to Forge One of His Most Famous Works
Artsy - Guests at the recurring Dada salon of the modern art collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg might have found themselves doing a double-take a...
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New Study Suggests a Link between Creativity and Brain Structure
Artsy - What does a creative brain look like? Over the past two decades, through neuroimaging—the process through which scientists make scans of the ...
Why the French can sell arms and culture to Saudi Arabia, but the US and UK only arms
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 Sa...
Miami’s Design District Gets a Surrealist-inspired Parking Garage
Modern Magazine - Across the street from two art museums in Miami’s architecturally flamboyant Design District, the city’s latest and arguably weirdes...
Diego Rivera Painting Sells for $9.76 M a New Record for Latin American Art at Auction
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 th...
‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain
The New York Times - The great cathedral of Mexico City is a visual opera of light, movement and sacred history. And at its center is a true coup de ...
From Astrophysical Observatories to Abandoned Factories, Art Pop-Ups are Taking Over
Smithsonian Magazine - In 1971, at the height of the Cold War, renowned U.S. and Soviet scientists gathered at Armenia’s Byurakan Astrophysical Obser...
How Museums Handle Forgeries in Their Collections
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...
How the $646 Million Rockefeller Collection Broke the Record for Most Expensive Estate in History
Artsy - - The collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller became the most expensive estate in history on Tuesday night, after an evening sale of 44 work...
