Born in 1915, photographer Genevieve Naylor started in New York City where she moved at the age of 18. After the war, the photographer works for magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and builds her own visual identity that make her an artist with a very special aesthetics. Mashable paid tribute to her stunning portraits made in the 40s, showing women whose style and elegance remain timeless.
‘1940s Fashion Photography’
Fubiz | April 27, 2016
Laolu Senbanjo’s artwork in Beyoncé’s visual album,”Lemonade,” has conjured up a media storm that’s been rumbling along since it dropped on HBO last Saturday evening. In the past few days alone, Vogue called the Brooklyn-based artist their “new Instagram obsession,” and ABC News held a nationally syndicated interview.
‘Artist and Beyoncé Collaborator Laolu Senbanjo Is an Overnight Media Sensation’
Artnet | April 27, 2016 | Rain Embuscado
One Australian performance group is asking a provocative question: What better way to connect to the earth than through sex?
Pony Express, a collective of four artists, will perform at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in Melbourne, between May 6-16, at the Next Wave Festival. The show, entitled Ecosexual Bathhouse, is meant to be a “complete sensory environment” according to the group’s fundraising page.
‘Why these artists are having sex with the earth’
Mashable | April 27, 2016 | Chelsea Frisbie
Next week, Londoners will go to the polls to vote for the city’s next mayor. Can either candidate make the ever-more-expensive city affordable for artists?
The building, in East London, is inauspicious, a 1960s industrial edifice with an anonymous entrance, bands of glazing, and drab brickwork. But for almost two decades, over 100 artists—painters, sculptors, ceramists—called it home. In March, Cremer Street Studios closed its doors for the last time to make way for a new residential development. Now, those artists’ futures are uncertain. Along with thousands of other artists, they are the latest examples of London’s property boom squeezing those reliant on affordable space out of the capital.
‘Can London’s Next Mayor Save the City for Artists?’
Artsy | April 26, 2016 | Rob Sharp
Standing in the impressive space of Berlin’s Judin gallery, the German collector Heiner Wemhöner was pondering the etymology of the term pop-up. “I’ve never heard it before,” he told artnet News. But that didn’t stop him from adopting the format. Last week, Wemhöner celebrated the publication of a new book cataloging the paintings in his over 700-strong collection with an exhibition—installed for one night only; a pop-up show if you may—of paintings from the collection.
‘German Collector Heiner Wemhöner on Following Instincts, Not Advisors’
artnet | April 26, 2016 | Hili Perlson
People love mashing things together.
And while Photoshop and other programs allow users to do that, not everyone knows how to use them. That’s where Ostagram, a Russian website, comes in. The site allows users to simply upload photos and filters, and mix any two together to create a new image.
‘A Russian website lets users mash any 2 images together to create beautiful — and bizarre — results’
Business Insider | April 26, 2016 | Anjelica Oswald
With millions of fans still reeling from the shocking news last Thursday that the legendary musician Prince had died, his brother-in-law, Maurice Phillips, has vowed to transform Prince’s $6.6-million home in Minnesota into a museum.
‘Prince’s $6.6-Million Minnesota Home Will Become a Museum for Fans’
Artnet | April 26, 2017 | Lorena Muñoz-Alonso
Sir Anish Kapoor, the Turner Prize-winning artist, has warned his Olympic Park sculpture must not become an “amusement park”, claiming plans to install a slide around it were “foisted” on him by the Mayor of London.
‘Anish Kapoor: Boris ‘foisted’ new slide on my sculpture’
The Telegraph | April 26, 2016 | Hannah Furness
Homelessness may be a problem in London, but the issue is not one that UK officials are ready to confront outside their doorstep. A proposed installation of Homeless Jesus, a cast bronze statue that depicts a destitute figure huddled under a blanket on a park bench, has been scuttled by the Westminster council, reports the Guardian.
‘Divisive ‘Homeless Jesus’ Statue Rejected by Westminster Council’
artnet | April 26, 2016 | Sarah Cascone
The world can be a pretty strange and surreal place as it is, but for those times when it’s not quite weird enough, we can always rely on photographers and image manipulators like Ted Chin to show us things we couldn’t possibly imagine.
‘THIS PHOTOGRAPHER TURNS HIS IMAGINATION INTO AMAZING SURREAL DIGITAL MANIPULATIONS’
DIY Photography | April 26, 2016 | John Aldred
The last we heard from multimedia choreographers Adrien M and Claire B, they’d just released a video spot for The Movement of Air, in which dancers manipulated a variety of projection-mapped tornadoes, smoke columns, and floating papers. In their latest video, which shows off their ever-expanding exhibition XYZT, the two artists show abstract landscapes across four dimensions—the horizontal (X), vertical (Y), depth (Z) and time (T).
‘An Interactive Installation Lets You Manipulate Time and Space’
The Creators Project | April 26, 2016 | DJ Pangburn
Great and not at all scary news, art world: A recent study published in the Personality and Individual Differences journal concluded that you may want to be wary of the artists, actors, and musicians in your life, seeing as they often share certain neuropsychological features with individuals exhibiting “psychopathic traits.”
‘Great News: Artists Might Share Common Traits With Psychopaths’
Huffington Post | April 26, 2016 | Priscilla Frank
Art and environmental activism often go hand in hand. Such is the case with Jason deCaires Taylor’s incredible aquatic sculptures that seek to celebrate and protect the amazing underwater landscapes of our Earth. His pieces explore the symbiosis between art, nature, and man, with breathtaking installations that evolve and grow through the effects of one on another. With Earth Day having just passed us by, we wanted to commemorate this artist’s exciting union of art with the natural world.
‘Underwater Sculptures Celebrate Life on Earth and Protect Aquatic Ecosystems’
My Modern Met | April 26, 2016 | Kristine Mitchell
A collection of works by elusive street artist Banksy goes on the block in Los Angeles this weekend, and pre-auction bids put a six-figure starting point on select pieces.
Julien’s Auctions, a Beverly Hills–based auction house, is holding its biannual Street & Contemporary Art Show, and the formally unidentified U.K.-based graffiti artist — or artists? — known for social commentary is among the headliners.
‘Sale of Banksy art in L.A. brings new cred to ‘street’ artists’
Marketwatch | April 26, 2016 | Rachel Koning Beals
Photographer and artist Christopher Makos‘s world collided with Andy Warhol‘s at a dinner party in 1976. Andy was intrigued by Makos’s use of the 35mm camera, his ability to compose a shot, and his knack for being aware of the perfect picture about to happen. Makos, for his part, became close friends with Warhol gaining footing in Warhol’s inner circle and even accompanying the artist on his travels and social outings. Thus, their photographic work began to overlap and they often influenced each other up until Warhol’s untimely death in 1987.
‘Christopher Makos on How Andy Warhol Created the First Social Media Platform’
artnet | April 25, 2016 | artnet Auctions
The 47th edition of Art Basel, contemporary art world’s premier platform, will once again gather some of the most renowned galleries, curators, artist, dealers and collectors. As one of the most important art fair since 1970s held annually in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong, Art Basel showcases the world’s leading art shows for modern and contemporary works. Each edition in each city is unique and defined by host city and region, which reflecs on participating galleries, presented artworks and parallel programming which is always produced in collaboration with local institutions.
‘ART BASEL 2016 – THE 47TH EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ART FAIRS IN THE WORLD’
Widewalls | April 25, 2016 | Elena Martinique
It turns out artist Damien Hirst’s famous displays of dead animals preserved in formaldehyde may have been dangerous to more than just artistic sensibilities. A study published this month in Analytical Methods found Hirst’s pieces were leaking formaldehyde gas at levels 10 times higher than the legal limit during a show at London’s Tate Modern in 2012.
‘Study claims artist’s famed works were releasing poisonous gas’
Fox News | April 25, 2016 | Michael Harthorne
BOSTON, MASS.- Invaluable, the world’s leading online marketplace for buying fine art, antiques and collectibles, and Phillips, a leading global platform for buying and selling 20th and 21st century art and design, today announced the launch of a new partnership to offer Phillips catalogs for online bidding on the Invaluable marketplace.
‘Phillips and Invaluable announce partnership for online bidding on the Invaluable marketplace’
Art Daily | April 23, 2016
On Tuesday, art insurance company Hiscox released its fourth annual report detailing the state of the online art trade. Their findings, which examine data gathered by art market research firm ArtTactic, confirm indications in last month’s TEFAF report that the cooling of the global art market has not yet affected online sales—on the contrary, they are at an all-time high. Below are five takeaways from the 2016 report.
‘The Online Art Market Is Booming—Here’s What You Need to Know’
Artsy | April 22, 2016 | Abigail Cain and Isaac Kaplan
Rebecca Szeto is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. His work plays with notions of re-forming beauty and value. Influenced by her love for art history, she uses humble and end-of-life materials, to give them a new future. These old paintbrushes were transformed into well-known ladies, of any times : dancers, duchesses, icons of famous paintings, each of them marked their time by their courage, their blackness of soul or on contrary their dedication. All details of these women lives are on her website.
‘Old Paintbrushes Transformed into Famous Ladies’
Fubiz | April 22, 2016
English photographer Nick Brandt first had occasion to visit East Africa in 1995, as the director of the music video for Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song.” As many have, he simply “fell in love with the place,” not least with the animals that live there. “That experience shifted my focus in terms of what I wanted to say about the world,” says Brandt, and for almost two decades now, he has exclusively dedicated himself to saying it.
‘Monumental Wildlife Portraits Capture Wastelands Once Roamed’
The Creators Project | April 22, 2016 | Shana Nys Dambrot
Ryan McGinness‘ approach to art and the art world is sardonic yet earnest, a mature version of the rebellious ethos that defined his youth in 90s skate culture. He’s soft-spoken and very tall, a gentle giant from Virgina Beach, long and far away from his current space on the top floor of a six-story former factory in New York’s Chinatown.
‘Ryan McGinness Thinks You’re Looking at Art Wrong | Studio Visits’
The Creators Project | April 22, 2016 | Beckett Mufson
India’s richest woman with a $20 billion family fortune and a 27-story sky palace in India’s south Mumbai, billed as the world’s most expensive home for its $1 billion estimated cost – Nita Ambani is now eyeing the art world. Her new interest is the conservation of Indian art forms and making them more widely known internationally.
‘India’s Richest Woman Nita Ambani Eyes The Art World’
Blouin Artinfo | April 22, 2016 | Bibhu Pattnaik
With the V&A museum’s new exhibition Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear came a photography ban, eliminating visitors’ opportunity to catch the collection of 18th century lingerie on camera.
‘V&A museum bans sketching in select temporary exhibitions’
Independent | April 22, 2016 | Jacob Stolworthy
Co-directors Ian Roderick Gray and Dylan Harvey may be as good at performing in front of an audience as they are at calling the shots behind the camera. Their new film, The Banksy Job, looks remarkably like the 2010 mockumentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, but Gray and Harvey maintain that the whole thing is unscripted. During the Q&A after a Tribeca Film Festival screening earlier this week, the pair kept straight faces as they answered questions about their wild protagonist, AK47 (“AK” stands for Art Kaida, his “art terrorist” organization). “You can’t script a madman,” they said.
‘A Documentary About the Artist Who Stole Banksy’s Work Out of Spite’
Hyperallergic | April 22, 2016 | Alina Cohen
Painter Peter Zimmermann has moved his colorful hues from canvas to floor in his latest exhibition “Freiburg School,” at the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg, Germany. The installation is composed of bright blue, pink, and peach resin that appears like a candy-colored lagoon beneath the feet of museum-goers.
‘1,400 Square Feet of Candy-Colored Resin Layered Onto the Floor of a German Museum’
Colossal | April 22, 2016 | Kate Sierzputowski
The V&A’s new Exhibition Road entrance will be named after Britain’s richest man, Len Blavatnik, after his foundation donated money that brings the museum to 95% of fundraising for the £49.5m project.
‘V&A museum project boosted by billionaire’s donation’
The Guardiant | April 21, 2016
Roundups of movers and shakers are ubiquitous, but the one that makes the biggest waves every year is the TIME 100 list. The publication released their 2016 edition of the world’s most influential people on Thursday, and a number of art world names have been included.
‘Yayoi Kusama Is Only Artist Named in ‘TIME’s 100 Most Influential People’
Artnet | April 21, 2016 | Rain Embuscado
Damien Hirst has a knack for arresting attention, as he did by encrusting the platinum cast of a human skull in 2007, by pulling off a $200 million all-Hirst auction at Sotheby’s in 2008 and by leaving the Gagosian Gallery in 2012, after he had been represented there for 17 years.
Now Mr. Hirst has done it again, announcing that he is returning to Larry Gagosian, who is welcoming him back.
‘Damien Hirst Returns to Gagosian Gallery’
NY Times | April 21, 2016 | Robin Pogre bin
He’s an über-modernist, favoring sleek lines and large expanses of glass. She bends more to the traditional, preferring soft curves and mullioned windows. So when designer Alison Palevsky and her husband, Alexander, began discussing plans for their home in Pacific Palisades, California, there was plenty of, shall we say, back and forth before a successful blending of their styles was realized.
‘HOUSE TOUR: Inside A Pacific Palisades Home That Is An Art Collector’s Dream’
Elle Decor | April 21, 2016 | Catherine Ettlinger
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It’s no secret that good placement can make or break a piece or street art or a mural. That can mean picking the perfect place to install an artwork, or responding to the space that’s available and making something that takes that space into consideration. Think of it this way: Site-specific should mean the work is in some way specific to a site, not simply located at a site. And when art is site-specific, it can make a big difference. Recently, some artists practicing good placement have really caught my eye. Here are a few examples:
‘Placement makes perfect’
Vandalog | April 20, 2016 | RJ Rushmore
Unlike professional athletes, actors (Gene Hackman) and some novelists (Philip Roth), visual artists don’t usually retire. Or if they do, they don’t announce it.
But in 2011, Maurizio Cattelan — one of the most expensive living artists, then at the peak of his career and the subject of an uproarious retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum — told the world that he was finished, fatigued both creatively and by the velocity of the money-fueled art world. During the last couple of years, though, Mr. Cattelan found himself itching to make things in three dimensions again.
NY Times | April 19, 2016 | RANDY KENNEDY
With spring suddenly in full bloom in New York, it seems timely for The Met to be making the most out of their rooftop space with a site-specific installation by the British artist Cornelia Parker.
When initially confronted with the space, Parker was taken aback by the daunting skyline and decided to create something architecturally incongruous, arriving on the concept of a large, red barn. ‘But then I realised – quite quickly – that red barns are way too big to put on the roof,’ Parker says.
‘House proud: Cornelia Parker places a 1920s-inspired house on The Met’s rooftop’
Wallpaper | April 19 | Carly Ayres
In 2009, two years before news of the Knoedler Gallery’s $70m sale of fake Abstract Expressionist paintings began to emerge, Ann Freedman resigned as director. Two years later, the venerable gallery closed down and the lawsuits against Knoedler and Freedman began to flood in.
‘Former director of scandal-beset Knoedler Gallery breaks her silence’
The Art Newspaper | April 18, 2016 | Laura Gilbert, Bill Glass
James Franco has famously resisted being identified as merely an actor, pursuing a simultaneous life in the art world — making videos of dollhouses split in half, painting fat pets, and restaging Cindy Sherman’s iconic 1977–1980 “Untitled Film Stills,” with Franco himself standing in for Sherman, who was (in her own version) standing in for a variety of actresses in B-movies.
‘In conversation with James Franco’
Vulture | April 18, 2016 | Jerry Saltz
A personal art collection, regardless of how expensive the pieces may be, is what makes a house a home. These accents are essential finishing touches—they can elevate even a room filled with big-box pieces to something one of a kind. There are some people who simply have a great eye for art.
’16 Envy-Inducing Celebrity Art Collectors’
My Domaine | April 17, 2016 | Julia Millay Walsh
Back in 2014, brussels-based artist xavier delory shared with designboom a series of images depicting le corbusier’s villa savoye ransacked and covered with defaced with wall writings.
‘Xavier delory envisions le corbusier’s ronchamp chapel covered in graffiti’
Designboom | April 15, 2016 | Nina Azzarello
Company of super agent Ari Emanuel has invested in London-based publisher and art fair.
The US sports and entertainment conglomerate WME-IMG, which is run by the Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel and his business partner Patrick Whitesell, has invested in Frieze, the London-based publisher and art fair. The sum invested and the size of WME-ING’s shareholding have not yet been revealed.
‘Frieze gets the Hollywood treatment’
The Art Newspaper | April 15, 2016 | ERMANNO RIVETTI
Public art, whether the public knows it or not, is becoming more of a private enterprise.
A number of countries have slashed funding for cultural projects since the financial crisis of 2008. In London, for example, spending by local councils on arts and culture fell 19 percent from 2010 to 2015, according to a report published on Wednesday by Arts Council England.
‘Getting the Art Out on the Streets’
The New York Times | April 15, 2016 | Scott Reyburn
From rentakit housing estates to industrial wastelands and deserted roads, photographer Polly Tootal goes beyond picture postcards to capture less celebrated corners of Britain. Look closely – there’s not a tourist in sight.
For her series Unknown Places, photographer Polly Tootal headed out across the UK to show how exotic and odd apparently familiar vistas can appear.
‘Empty Britain: portrait of a nation without any people – in pictures’
The Guardian | April 14, 2016
With the spring art season comes a slew of gallery exhibitions, museum shows, and art fairs brimming with the latest crop of young artists. In preparation, we consulted hundreds of galleries and sifted through thousands of artworks to uncover the 30 most promising up-and-coming artists across the globe.
’30 Emerging Artists to Watch This Spring’
Artsy | April 13, 2016 | Artsy Editors
Series of photos on the topic of human memory, perception of reality and creation of subjective, distorted reality on social media.
‘Constructed’
Pantone Canvas | April 12, 2016 | Pawel Nolbert
Geneva prosecutors opened a criminal probe into the ownership of an Amedeo Modigliani painting believed to have been taken by the Nazis in World War II as part of a New York legal dispute over the $20 million art work.
As part of the case, investigators on Friday searched facilities at the Geneva Free Ports, and confiscated the painting, “Seated Man with a Cane”, the Geneva Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Monday. Aaron Golub, a lawyer for David Nahmad and International Art Center, said the painting was still at the site in Geneva.
‘Modigliani With Nazi Links Sparks Geneva Criminal Probe’
Bloomberg | April 11, 2016 | By Hugo Miller, Edvard Pettersson, Katya Kazakina
At a time when the art of trading art is thriving on a growing international and online marketplace, it’s hard to be sure of an artwork’s authenticity.
‘AN ARTIST CAN NOW EASILY CREATE A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY – A TALK ON VERISART APP WITH ROBERT NORTON’
Widewalls | April 11, 2016 | Angie Kordic