80 years of Eames on show in Tokyo
domus - It is 80 years since Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser (an unlicensed architect and a painter) founded their design studio. Charismatic and naive, ...
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Dürer drawing bought for $30 worth millions
Durer - Thought to be a 20th-century reproduction, the drawing by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer was bought at a house clearance sale. - rea...
“Discovery of a Lifetime”: Rare Tudor Paintings From Elizabeth I’s Reign Found Hidden in Medieval Manor
Hyperallergic - While peeling away layers of plaster as part of routine preparations for a building repair project, a team of restorers in England mad...
Blue-Chip Art From Bitter Macklowe Divorce Brings $676 Million at Sotheby’s
NY Times - A Sotheby’s executive called the court-ordered sale on Monday night “the most valuable single-owner auction ever staged.” - read more ...
The exoskeletons of Balenciaga’s new campaign
Domus - Im the year that marked fashion – as well as many other areas of culture and entertainment – the long-awaited return to the physical sphere an...
pharrell williams & daniel arsham help launch a coalition of NFT creators
designboom - 2021 has been the year of the non-fungible token, but while many artists have been embracing NFTs, others are still on the fence due to c...
As everyone was talking about the Metaverse, Radiohead launched their own
domus - Thom Yorke’s band lands on Playstation 5 with “Kid A Mnesia Exhibition,” a digital show that looks like a video game. Rewinding time to the w...
Six Native Artists and Their Works Receive Major Recognition
Smithsonian - For decades, the artistic endeavors of Native Americans and other indigeneous groups were rarely acknowledged as fine art. Native art wa...
Barbara Kruger’s Timeless Text Art Satisfied Short Attention Spans Long before Twitter and TikTok
Hyperallergic - In the late 1970s Barbara Kruger began overlaying snippets of text set in clean type over generic images sourced from 1950s mass media...
In Ceremony, Met Museum Officially Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Hyperallergic - In a ceremony this morning marking the repatriation of three Nigerian artworks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Ni...