avid Bowie may not have been a painter or a sculptor, but the late musical legend was an artist in the truest sense of the word.
Auctioneers Sotheby’s have announced that Bowie’s personal artcollection, consisting of almost 300 works by artists including contemporary artist Damien Hirst and conceptual pioneer Marcel Duchamp, will go on display in advance of being put to auction in November.
‘DAVID BOWIE’S £10M ART COLLECTION TO BE REVEALED AT SOTHEBY’S’
GQ | July 14, 2016 | Ailis Brennan
Although sometimes thought of as the gallery equivalent of a gone fishin’ sign for an art world that largely shuts down after Art Basel in June, summer group shows, ranging from the serious to the irreverent, can prove lucrative for some galleries during the usually dry months of July and August.
‘Dealers cash in during summer months with lucrative group shows’
The Art Newspaper | July 13, 2016 | Dan Duray
An Amsterdam exhibition on Vincent van Gogh’s medical problems will include the revolver which he used to kill himself in 1890. Teio Meedendorp, a researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, believes it is highly probable that the corroded Lefaucheux revolver found in a field was the suicide weapon.
‘New show reveals grisly details behind Van Gogh’s mutilated ear’
The Art Newspaper | July 13, 2016 | Martin Bailey
Contemporary art is big business. It’s also in the business of big: Collectors are ever more interested in snapping up the kind of massive, statement-making sculpture and installation work that formerly was the specialty of only the mightiest of museums.
’13 Collectors Who Are Driving the Trend for Super-Sized Art’
Artnet | July 13, 2016
Calling all British Pokemon Go fans: can’t wait for the official version of the app to transfer across the pond?
‘artnet Asks: Scarlett Raven and Interactive Art’
Artnet | July 13, 2016
Paris-based Swiss artist Felice Varini has created a new art installation titled “À Ciel Ouvert” (Open Air) on top of late world-renowned architect Le Corbusier’s 1952 building La Cité Radieuse in Marseille.
‘See Le Corbusier’s Iconic Marseille Building Transformed by Stunning Installation’
Artnet | Carol Civre | July 13, 2016
A building that resembles a 12-story “toilet” was unveiled in Henan province recently, despite a ban by the Chinese government, announced this past February, on structures that are “oversized,” “xenocentric,” or “weird,” according to a brief report in The Independent.
‘China’s 12-Story ‘Toilet’ Building Defies ‘Weird’ Architecture Ban’
Artnet | Eileen Kinsella | July 13, 2016
In a quest to find Pikachu, artnet News took to the Museum of Modern Art to play Pokémon Go. As the augmented reality video game craze consumes all the Pokéworld’s denizens, we wanted to know how pocket monsters would pair with visual art.
‘We Played Pokémon Go at MoMA, Here’s What Happened’
Artnet | Rain Embuscado | July 12, 2016
On Friday, the German Bundesrat ratified a new law, implementing unprecedented controls over the country’s art market. The law, championed by culture minister Monika Grütters since she took office in 2013, was passed by the German parliament late last month.
‘Germany’s Onerous New Art Export Law, Explained’
Artsy | July 12, 2016 | ALEXANDER FORBES AND ISAAC KAPLAN
Between markets in flux and Brexit, investors are looking for alternate ways to invest in tangible assets that don’t rely on the government. The growing trend in high net worth investing is to seek out asset classes with scarcity, like fine wines, antique cars, and real estate.
‘Why Invest In Art Now?’
Huffington Post | July 12, 2016 | Madelaine D’Angelo
Well! Just when you thought that things could not get any more out of control in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District news arrives that a Museum of Ice Cream is going to open in the area on July 29. It will be “just a few scoops from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Gansevoort Street entrance to the High Line,” to borrow the language of its news release. (Emphasis added, while wincing.)
‘MUSEUM OF ICE CREAM IN NEW YORK WILL INCLUDE WORK BY QUITE A FEW ARTISTS’
Artiness | July 12, 2016
There have been countless such gatherings at Jehangir Art Gallery over the years. It’s the opening of a group exhibition of new sculptures and paintings. In between posing for photographers, the artists mingle with friends, family and would-be collectors; flowing freely are tropical juice drinks, in many cases alcoholic; and, given the 35-degree heat, few of the male guests’ kurtas are buttoned right the way to the top.
‘A renaissance for Indian art’
Telegraph | July 11, 2016 | Alastair Smart
New York artist Deborah Kass has declared her support for Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton with a bold, Andy Warhol-style artwork.
‘Get Your Warhol-Style Anti-Trump Art by Deborah Kass’
Artnet | Brian Boucher | July 11, 2016
A Frank Gehry house that is being billed as an “architectural connoisseur’s dream” and that sits on prime Malibu beachfront property is back on the market with an asking price of $33.9 million.
‘A Frank Gehry–Designed Malibu Beach House Can Be Yours for Just $33.9 Million’
Artnet | Eileen Kinsella | July 11, 2016
She is an Indian girl living in Berlin, she is 22, a student of languages, a hip-hop dancer, a beauty and fitness vlogger and one of India’s first female graffiti artists out there.
‘INDIA’S FINEST FEMALE GRAFFITI ARTIST – KAJAL SINGH IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW’
Widewalls | July 10, 2016 | Angie Kordic
The Young Architects Program is an annual collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 that fosters innovative design research and promotes emerging talent.
‘MoMA PS1’
Archatlas | July 10, 2016 | Roberto Cruz
Combine environmentalism with art and you get NEVERCREW, a Swiss duo painting towering works of 3D street art around the world.
’13 MIND-BENDING 3D STREET ART MURALS THAT POP OFF THE WALL’
D’Marge | July 10, 2016 | Elyse Romano
Art-law experts say they can’t recall anything like the lawsuit filed over a painting its owner says was done by Peter Doig, a piece Doig denies painting.
‘Artist sued for $5M over painting he insists he didn’t paint’
Seattle Times | July 9, 2016
OK, Peter Doig may have tried LSD a few times when he was growing up in Canada during the 1970s. But he knows, he said, when a painting is or isn’t his.
So when Doig — whose eerie, magical landscapes have made him one of the world’s most popular artists — was sent a photograph of a canvas he said he didn’t recognize, he disavowed it.
‘Artist sued for $5M over painting he insists he didn’t paint’
Seattle Times | July 9, 2016 | Graham Bowley
Artist Tony Berlant surveyed the sunken, Spanish-style living room, teary eyed and sparking with memories
‘Art world A-listers celebrate the woman who brought them together — and helped put L.A. on the art map’
LA Times | July 9, 2016 | Deborah Vankin
In a recent interview with Marc Silber of Advancing Your Photography, Ansel Adams’ son Michael gives a tour of his father’s darkroom.
‘Dodging, burning… microwaving? A look inside Ansel Adams’ darkroom’
DPREVIEW | July 9, 2016 | Carey Rose
On Saturday morning, the streets of Hull were taken over by a dazzling crowd of 3,200 naked people covered head-to-toe in blue paint in what has been hailed as the UK’s largest ever art installation.
‘3,200 naked volunteers turn the streets of Hull blue in Spencer Tunick’s ‘Sea of Hull’ installation’
Independent | July 9, 2016 | Harry Cockburn
“Street photography is all about accidents” says Max Slobodda, a photographer from Germany whose Merge series captures people, and occasionally animals, appearing to melt into their surroundings.
‘Playful German street photography – in pictures’
The Guardian | July 9, 2016 | Katy Fallon
A Van Gogh still life hangs in a budget hotel room. An abstract, black and gray composition brightens a corporate office. A Paris street scene gathers dust in a kitschy bar.
‘On the Ground Van Gogh lives here. So does Rembrandt. A Chinese village where the great masters live on (in replication)’
LA Times | July 9, 2016 | Jonathan Kaiman
Airport facilities aren’t the most thrilling places in the world, but thanks to commissioned art work initiatives, these otherwise bleak travel spaces contain awesome installations.
‘These are some of the most beautiful airports in the world’
Business Insider | July 9, 2016 | Julia Naftulin
IN what was billed as a monthlong residency in New York City, the British street artist Banksy worked at night putting stencils on walls around the city. In the morning, he posted images online that sent fans hunting to find them before they were painted over.
‘Collecting Street Art: Have Room on Your Wall for a Wall?’
NY Times | July 8, 2016 | PAUL SULLIVAN
The nonprofit and for-profit continents of the art world shifted a little closer to Pangea after news broke late Thursday that Eric Shiner, the director of Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum, is leaving the institution to serve as a senior vice president of the new fine art division at Sotheby’s.
‘Eric Shiner Leaves Andy Warhol Museum to Bring More Marilyns to Sotheby’s’
ARTSY | ISAAC KAPLAN | JUL 8TH, 2016
Strategically placed in one of the most popular tourist sites in New York, many passersby on the High Line have lined up to take pictures with a half-naked man sporting sagging Hanes underwear, who appears to lurch forward with closed eyes.
‘See the Most Bizarre Photos of Tony Matelli’s High Line Sleepwalker’
Artnet | Daniela Rios | July 8, 2016
Museums can be awesome. But let’s face it, some of them can also be pretty dull. Which is why it’s not surprising that some people get a little bored of them.
’15+ Museum Snapchats That’ll Make Art History Fun Again’
boredpanda | July 8, 2016
If you were to pass a bunch of colorfully-dressed human figures crammed into a crawlspace beneath a public staircase, you might think they’re mannequins at first, with their splayed limbs and claustrophobic positioning.
‘Living Street Art: Contorted Human Bodies in Urban Spaces’
Web Urbanist | July 8, 2016 | SA Rogers
Underneath the surface of Los Angeles’s pristine white-cube galleries and star-studded opening nights lies an entirely different type of art scene. A slew of project spaces, artist-run galleries, and non-profits rule in the second-largest city in the US.
‘Inside Los Angeles’s Oddball Underground Art Scene’
Artnet | July 7, 2016 | Henri Neuendorf
Athletes have long held a mythical foothold in the public imagination as superhumans with quick instincts, confidence, and grace. And since nearly the dawn of photography, we’ve taken to immortalizing their images.
‘The Stories behind Some of the Most Striking Sports Photographs of the Last Century’
ARTSY | CASEY LESSER | JUL 7TH, 2016
Behind every male artist there stands a woman denied her fair share of acclaim.
‘The 10 Most Expensive Women Artists’
The Culture Trip | July 7, 2016 | Harriet Clugston
The winners of the ninth annual iPhone Photography Awards—an international photography contest that fosters iPhone and mobile photography—have been announced, with Siyuan Niu of Xinjiang, China, coming on top.
‘These Are the Best iPhone Photos of 2016’
Time | Rachel Lowry | July 7, 2016
The UK is on course to leave the European Union, after a narrow vote in favour of divorce in a referendum held two weeks ago on 23 June.
‘Brexit: what it could mean for the arts’
The Art Newspaper | JAVIER PES, MELANIE GERLIS, MARTIN BAILEY | July 6, 2016
JOHANNESBURG — “Those are white people problems” is often the response to mental illness in black communities across the globe.
‘An Artist Photographs His Depression to Destigmatize Mental Illness’
Hyperallergic | Kyla McMillan | July 6, 2016
Corten steel is a group of steel alloys which are exposed to natural weather conditions for several years in order to form a rust-like appearance.
‘Toti semerano constructs an irregular corten steel wall in salento, italy’
Designboom | July 6, 2016 | Hollie Smith
German photographer sebastian erras has uncovered a patchwork of different floors from around the world – including paris, venice and barcelona. his latest venture in collaboration withpixartprinting, brought him to london where he discovered an exciting landscape of different colors and textures, all found beneath the tip of his toes.
‘London floors: sebastian erras and pixartprinting unveil the city’s hidden treasures’
Designboom | July 6, 2016 | Hollie Smith
A frequent guest to Andy Warhol’s Factory and residing in one of the largest privately owned palaces in the world, the Palace of St. Emmeram in Regensburg (Germany), Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis belongs to one of the most prestigious royal families in Europe. She is one of the few people who rejected to be portrayed by Lucian Freud because he wanted her to sit six months for him – naked.
‘Why a Princess-Collector Turned Into a Painter’
Larry’s List | July 6, 2016
It began some five years ago with a startling question: A woman I barely knew asked was I responsible for the death of Jean-Michel Basquiat. I said no, and asked where that idea had come from? It was something she had heard, she said.
‘Anthony Haden-Guest on Why He Did Not Kill Jean-Michel Basquiat’
Artnet | July 6, 2016 | Anthony Haden-Guest
It’s not that Venice lacks private art collections: There are the Punta Della Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi, owned by French luxury commodities magnate Francois Pinault, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, all which show in vaunted architectural environs.
‘Russia’s Richest Man Is Building a Venice Art Institution to Combat Nationalism’
ARTSY | ANNA KATS | JUL 6TH, 2016
ArtList, an online platform for anonymous secondary market sales of art, is ceasing operations. In June, during the week of Art Basel, a British art appraisal company was set to sign a deal to acquire the New York-based start-up but it went awry on the very day that it was meant to be signed. The next day, all five of ArtList‘s employees were let go, and the company summarily moved their belongings out of their shared office space at 356 Bowery.
‘ArtList, Startup for the Art World, Closes Shop Just as It Was Gearing Up’
Artiste | July 6, 2016 | Rozalia Jovanovic
Erik Jones was born in Florida 1982 and currently based out of Brooklyn New York. His work focuses on pop culture using vibrant colors.
‘Erik Jones Pop Art Girls’
Trendland | July 6, 2016 | JEANETTE
In 1889, after the turbulent months with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles that culminated in him mutilating his own ear, Van Gogh took refuge at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, a small asylum in the Provençal countryside where the regimen was kind.
‘Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew by Susan Fletcher – a portrait of Van Gogh’s ‘faded’ woman’
The Guardian | July 6, 2016 | Clare Clark
Is an artistic utopia possible? Even if it’s not, it’s an intriguing concept to explore – especially when it’s artist, shaman and co-founder of now-disbanded east London creative network and art collective !WOWOW!, Matthew Stone, leading the exploration.
‘Matthew Stone’s art reminds us how much we need each other’
Dazed | July 6, 2016 | Ashleigh Kane
Few cities have undergone radical urban transformation like Shenzhen. Designated as China’s first Special Economic Zone in 1980, this market town of 30,000 people experienced an explosive population increase to 10,000,000 inhabitants over the last 30 years.
‘Icons of Design: Shenzhen’s Monumental Building Projects’
Architizer | July 6, 2016 | Eric Baldwin
By transforming coins from the different countries he visits into art works, the Brazilian artist Andre Levy confers an amusing aspect to universal daily objects.
‘Coins Transformed in Pop Art Characters’
Fubiz | July 6, 2016 | Hoel
The best word to describe Noel’le Longhaul’s tattoos is “primeval.” Even when freshly inked and uploaded onto her Instagram, they look like illustrations from an ancient grimoire or a book of disappeared folk tales, passed through the generations and probably bound in human skin.
‘Inside the mysterious world of witch tattoo art’
Dazed | July 5, 2016 | Evelyn Wang
Art and science do not necessarily mix; it would be a rare occurence to exhibit an art show at a medical science museum. However, renowned Chinese artist Zhang Yanzi’s medical-themed artworks are an exception.
‘Zhang Yanzi Brings out the Essence of Art and Science in Hong Kong’
Blouin Art info | July 5, 2016 | CLAIRE BOUCHARA
With the click of a button we now have access to a global museum, otherwise known as the internet, with its infinite collection of online images, texts, films, sound files, and even printable 3D objects.
‘As Attention Spans Dwindle, How Does a Museum Capture New Audiences?’
Artsy | July 5, 2016 | CHLOE HODGE
In 1923, rumors circulated that renowned artist Marcel Duchamp was renouncing art to devote his life to chess. “I am still a victim of chess,” he explained at the time. “It has all the beauty of art—and much more. It cannot be commercialized.
‘Escape Artists: Why These 7 Creatives Disappeared from the Art World’
Artsy | July 5, 2016 | ALEXXA GOTTHARDT
City art is a term that describes those artworks that are inspired by urbanity and city-related themes. City is a broad term, and when one speaks about city art, he/she has to think above the most usual concepts of the urban landscape, such as the buildings and houses.
‘FASCINATING THEMATIC WORKS OF CITY ART’
Widewalls | July 5, 2016 | Lorenzo Pereira