When we talk about the art market, we are actually talking about an amalgamation of many varied sub-markets, each with their own specificities and fluctuations.
‘The 100 Most Expensive Artists at Auction’
Artsy | August 8, 2016
My name is Jovana Rikalo and I am self-taught fine art and portrait photographer. I’ve been taking photos since 2013.
I had no interest in choosing photography as my profession until autumn of 2013, when I finally realized how strongly I really feel about it.
‘I Tell Surreal Stories With My Photography’
boredpanda | August 1, 2016 | Jovana Rikalo
Some three months ago, Los Angeles artist Eric Wesley signed a lease on a defunct Taco Bell in Cahokia, Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.
‘An Artist Is Using a Former Taco Bell to Make the Art World Slow Down’
Artsy | CASEY LESSER | July 28, 2016
WHAT do you do with 14 Christopher Wools?
And what if you want to exhibit them — or your four Bacons, 10 Warhols, four Lichtensteins and three Twomblys — alongside some of your 34 Renaissance and Baroque bronzes?
‘A Billionaire Is Opening a Private Art Museum in Manhattan’
NY Times | ROBIN POGREBIN | JULY 28, 2016
As a key lender and advisor to Basquiat and Haring exhibitions in different parts of the world since the 1990s, Lio Malca is also the owner of Casa Malca, a private luxury hotel in Tulum, which features artworks from his private collection consisting of: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marco Brambilla, George Condo, Keith Haring and so forth.
‘Owner of Luxury Art Hotel on How Art Is Moving Into Ibiza’
Larry`s List | July 27, 2016
Edward Steichen’s monumental 1955 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The Family of Man, was in essence about inclusivity.
‘See the World Through the Eyes of the One Percent’
Time | Ye Ming | July 27, 2015
A forgery suit by French artist Orlan against pop star Lady Gaga has backfired.
‘Orlan Must Pay Lady Gaga $22,000 After Losing Forgery Lawsuit’
Artnet | Brian Boucher | July 26, 2016
Most artists want their work shown, not covered up. But Israeli artist Dani Karavan is calling for his giant stone relief adorning the chamber of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to be taken down.
‘Legendary Israeli Artist Now Wants His Work Covered Up’
Artnet | Henri Neuendorf | July 26, 2016
In what is looking shaping up to be a tremendously eclectic survey of new picture-taking talent, a group exhibition of rising photographers is coming to both of Superchief Gallery’s NYC locations.
‘Ladies and Gentlemen, ‘The New Important Photographers’
The Creators Project | July 26, 2016 | Nathaniel Ainley
George Wong, a businessman from Hong Kong, is displaying his collection of contemporary Italian art in Beijing. The exhibition is called “Challenging Beauty－Insights of Italian Contemporary Art.”
‘Art Collector Displays Collection of Italian Art in Beijing’
Yibada | Ana Ablaza | July 26, 2016
Starting on September 12, New York’s Guggenheim will present “Work & Process,” a series that exposes the creative processes of several renowned artists across multiple disciplines, including musician and producer Pharrell Williams.
‘Pharrell Williams Creates Score for “Rules Of The Game” Performance This Fall’
Artnet | Carol Civre | July 26, 2016
For Frida Kahlo, painting was a language that enabled her to process the trauma she experienced: a crippling accident, a turbulent marriage and a series of miscarriages were all transcribed vividly onto canvas.
‘Frida Kahlo’s photo album’
The Sydney Morning Herald | July 26, 2016 | Ella Rubeli
In his ongoing series of relief sculptures titled “Wallwave Vibrations,” artist Loris Cecchini appears to liquify the walls of art galleries by turning them into pools of undulating waves caused by sound.
‘Artist Loris Cecchini Turns Gallery Walls into Vibrating Pools of Liquid’
Colossal | Christopher Jobson | July 26, 2016
A new film is being made about Vincent van Gogh’s enigmatic life—and death—and once completed, it will be the world’s first feature-length oil painted animation.
‘The Mysterious Death of Vincent Van Gogh to Be Explored in First Oil Paint Animated Film’
Artnet | Carol Civre | July 25, 2016
Sotheby’s Hong Kong has enlisted an unusual partner for its upcoming October sale: South Korean megastar Choi Seung Hyun, known as T.O.P., will serve as the guest curator of the auction, which has been named “#TTTOP” in honor of his five-million-follower Instagram account.
‘Sotheby’s Nabs South Korean Boy Band Star to Curate Hong Kong Sale’
Artnet | Sarah Cascone | July 25, 2016
I came away from the wonderful Stuart Davisretrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York convinced that he was one of the most important, most influential artists in 20th-century America.
‘Stuart Davis Was a Genius of Modern Style Before Style Became a Bad Word’
Artnet | Blake Gopnik | July 25, 2016
Amid the anger-fueled circus that is the current political convention season, few people are willing to make the argument that this country (or the world) is undergoing anything akin to a renaissance—political, artistic, or otherwise.
’10 Political Figures Who Resemble Famous Artworks’
Artnet | Christian Viveros-Fauné | July 25, 2016
Each year, artnet News rounds up the art world’s top-performing artists at auction, across categories.
‘The Top 10 Most Expensive Living American Artists of 2016’
Artnet | Rain Embuscado | July 25, 2016
In a deeply personal and frank interview with the German daily newspaperTagesspiegel, the artist Marina Abramović addressed her art, the reason why she never had children, and her new interest in pole dancing.
‘Marina Abramović Says Children Hold Back Female Artists’
Artnet | Henri Neuendorf | July 25, 2016
Most of us know Edvard Munch as the man behind The Scream. But there’s much more to this famed painter than his most iconic offering.
’15 Vivid Facts About Edvard Munch’
Mental Floss | July 25, 2016 | Kristy Puchko
Being one of Denmark’s foremost art collectors, Claus Busch Risvig focuses on collecting art by emerging contemporary artists. To bring his passion for art to another lever, he has become one of the curators of the upcoming CODE Art Fair – the first international art fair in Scandinavia to be held in August 2016.
‘Collector and Curator Claus Busch Risvig on His Excitement about the Scandinavian Art Scene’
Larry’s List | July 23, 2016
François Pinault, the French mega-collector and billionaire owner of Christie’s, is set to display works from his extensive contemporary art collection for the first time in Germany, in an exhibition titled “Dancing with Myself” at the Museum Folkwang in Essen.
‘French Mega-Collector François Pinault to Display Works from His Collection in Germany’
Artnet | Naomi Rea | July 22, 2016
Kanye West, who’s been infiltrating the upper echelons of the art world of late, will be collaborating on an art installation piece with Robert Wilson on July 30 at the annual summer benefit gala at the Watermill Center in the Hamptons.
‘Kanye West Is Last-Minute Addition to Art-Star Studded Watermill Center Summer Benefit’
Artnet | Amah-Rose Abrams | July 22, 2016
French scholar Marc Restellini has braved death threats over his efforts to authenticate works by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
‘Despite Death Threats, Modigliani Expert To Publish New Catalogue Raisonné’
Artnet | Brian Boucher | July 22, 2016
Artist Rashid Johnson is the second artist to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. (Founding director, curator, and baroness Hilla von Rebay, an abstract artist who died in 1967, was the first.)
‘Rashid Johnson Is Second Artist Ever Named to Guggenheim Foundation’s Board’
Artnet | Henri Neuendorf | July 22, 2016
For artists, the creative impulse doesn’t turn off after leaving the studio. And for some, this overflow of energy manifests in the realm of nightlife, where innovative thinkers have found informal settings and alternative spaces where experimentation is welcome, and celebrated.
‘These Artists Are Proving That Parties and Club Nights Can Be Art’
ARTSY | ALI GITLOW | JUL 22ND, 2016
The French luxury goods billionaire François Pinault is showing works from his vast contemporary art collection for the first time in Germany in the exhibition Dancing with Myself at the Museum Folkwang in Essen.
‘French luxury goods billionaire François Pinault makes German debut’
The Art Newspaper | July 21, 2016 | GARETH HARRIS
The collection of the legendary art dealer Leslie Waddington, who passed away last November at the age of 81, will be offered for sale as a single-owner auction at Christie’s London during Frieze Week in October 2016.
‘Art Collection of Legendary Dealer Leslie Waddington to Be Auctioned at Christie’s London’
Artnet | Carol Civre, | July 21, 2016
It’s no secret that the extraordinarily competitive contemporary art world can be an especially tough place for female artists to navigate.
’18 Female Artists Give Advice to Women Starting Out in the Art World’
Artnet | Eileen Kinsella | July 21, 2016
Attention adult coloring book fans: All your dreams are about to come true. The latest brand to take advantage of the coloring craze is Lisa Frank, the groovy, psychedelic brand of stickers, folders, and other school supplies that no school girl of the 1990s dared be seen without.
‘A First Look at Lisa Frank’s Rainbow-Tinged Take on the Adult Coloring Book Craze’
Artnet | Sarah Cascone | July 21, 2016
At the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s annual St. Tropez Gala last night, guests were in for a surprise, as actor-cum-artist Adrien Brody‘s charcoal and acrylic on canvas, titled Tiger on Last Legs (2016), was a hit.
‘You Won’t Believe What Leonardo DiCaprio Auctioned Off Last Night’
Artnet | Rain Embuscado | July 21, 2016
Lest we forget Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s high-profile celebrity status, anonymous Los Angeles street artist Plastic Jesus has targeted the real estate mogul and former “The Apprentice” host’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a witty new art installation.
‘LA Street Artist Who Built Wall Around Donald Trump’s Walk of Fame Star Explains Why He Did It’
Artnet | Sarah Cascone | July 21, 2016
What form would the human body have to take to better survive car crashes?
‘Meet Graham, Artist’s Vision of Human Evolved for Car Crashes’
Artnet | Brian Boucher | July 21, 2016
A major Vincent Van Gogh retrospective titled “Van Gogh in Provence: Modernizing Tradition,” on view at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, brings together 31 paintings from the collections of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo.
‘New Exhibition Explores How Van Gogh’s Work Modernized Painting’
Artnet | Carol Civre | July 20, 2016
After 130 years shrouded in mystery, the recipient of Van Gogh’s ear has been revealed.
‘Woman Gifted With Van Gogh’s Ear Identified 128 Years Later’
Artnet | Henri Neuendorf | July 20, 2016
It’s before 10am on a Tuesday but dozens are already lining up outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales, waiting for the gallery to let them into its latest blockbuster exhibition, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Most of them are here for Kahlo, the iconoclastic Mexican artist who died aged 47 after a life marred by disability and whose work – inspired by indigenous Mexican culture and tradition – depicted her dreams, her pain, her feminism and volatile love affair with Rivera.
‘Frida Kahlo: why we can’t look away from the world’s first selfie superstar’
The Guardian | July 20, 2016 | Brigid Delaney
Remember MoMA’s lambasted Björk show last year?
The Icelandic singer seems not to have been deterred by the scathing reviews, as she is dipping her toes back into the art world with a new exhibition, titled “Björk Digital,” which will launch at London’s Somerset House in September.
‘Björk is Back at the Museum With Immersive Reality Show at London’s Somerset House’
Artnet | Naomi Rea | July 20, 2016
Following a press conference in Washington, D.C. this morning announcinga planned $1 billion asset seizure from troubled Malaysian financier Jho Low, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released detailed—and frequently mind-boggling—documents showing how hundreds of millions of dollars were inappropriately transferred from Low’s 1MDB fund, to personal accounts or unrelated business entities and in some cases, used to pay for tens of millions worth of art work.
‘Prosecutors Expose Jho Low’s Secret Schemes to Illicitly Acquire $137 Million in Art’
Artnet | Eileen Kinsella | July 20, 2016
What does lawyer and art collector Aaron Fleischman have against President Barack Obama? A few weeks ago, we reported on how the Obamas plan to move to D.C.’s tony Kalorama neighborhood after leaving the White House, and now Fleischman’s mansion at 6 Kalorama Circle is up for sale.
‘Lawyerly Lairs: A Lawyer And Art Collector’s $6 Million Home’
Above the Law | July 19, 2016 | DAVID LAT
In a recent decision by the Austrian government’s cabinet, Adolf Hitler’s birthplace, which for over a century remained under the care of one family, may soon be taken over by the state.
‘Should Adolf Hitler’s Family Home Be Torn Down or Turned Into a Museum?’
Artnet | Rain Embuscado | July 18, 2016
To mark the start of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at the Austrian 21er Haus—the contemporary art branch of Vienna’s Belvedere Museum—the Chinese artist and activist gave an interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung in which he declared that the Chinese state made him famous.
‘Ai Weiwei Claims the Chinese Authorities Made Him Famous’
Artnet | Henri Neuendorf | July 18, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Inside Erin M. Riley’s studio.
‘Sex and Tapestry-Filled Brooklyn Studio’
Wmagazine | July 5, 2016 | Stephanie Eckardt
San Diego-based photographer John Mireles is working on an ambitious photo project titledNeighbors.
‘This Photographer is Making Portraits of Americans in All 50 States’
PetaPixel | July 05, 2016 | MICHAEL ZHANG
The gap between rich and poor is getting wider and wider, economists say. But if you look at it through a drone’s eyes, there’s only a thin fence separating both sides.
‘Drone photos show the fine lines separating the homes of the rich and the poor’
Lost at E Minor | July 4, 2016 | Inigo
Mark Hudson reviews a retrospective of the great American artist Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate Modern
‘Is Georgia O’Keeffe overrated?’
The Telegraph | Mark Hudson | JULY 4, 2016
For the series ‘forever young’, visual artist sara zaher imagines how time might have taken its toll on iconic figures of the 20th and 21st century.
‘sara zaher imagines how late famous figures might look today’
Designboom | July 3, 2016 | Nina Azzarello
On August 25th, the National Parks Service turns 100 years old. Celebrations have ranged from the First Family’s vacation through Yosemite and Carlsbad Caverns last month to an exhibition at the George Eastman Museum exploring the intertwined histories of photography and parkland.
’13 Photographers Who Captured the Epic Beauty of America’s National Parks’
ARTSY | ABIGAIL CAIN | JUL 1ST, 2016
Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies. When Gertrude Stein introduced them in 1906, Matisse said he and Picasso were “as different as the north pole is from the south pole.
‘Picasso and Matisse Trade Blows in a Cubism vs. Fauvism Bar Brawl’
Hyperallergic | Carey Dunne | June 30, 2016
Sotheby’s announced on Thursday that Candy Coleman, who has run the Beverly Hills branch of Gagosian Gallery since the year it opened,1995, will move to the auction house this summer as a member of its global contemporary art department based on the West Coast.
‘Candy Coleman Leaves Gagosian for Sotheby’s’
Blouin Art Info | June 30, 2016 | Taylor Dafoe
With the Republican National Convention only a few weeks off, Spencer Tunick is busier than usual. The world’s foremost photographer of large scale nude works, he’s organizing a shoot that’s likely to get lots of attention from the media, and the hordes of celebrants, protestors and provocateurs expected to gather in Cleveland in mid July to name the Republican presidential candidate.
‘ARTIST SPENCER TUNICK PLANS TO FIGHT TRUMP WITH NAKED WOMEN’
PAPER | David Hershkovits | June 30, 2016
A new exhibition of paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe will shine a light on an odd, obsessive artist.
‘How Georgia O’Keeffe left her cheating husband for a mountain: ‘God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it”
The Telegraph | June 30, 2016 | Alastair Sooke
It’s not only in Westminster that cabinets are undergoing an unprecedented shake-up.
‘How great British collectors inspired Tom Dixon’s interiors for new London restaurant Bronte’
The Telegraph | June 30, 2016 | Bethan Ryder
One of the most famous figures in art history, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is remembered as much for his extravagant persona and iconic mustache as he is for his creative output—which spanned painting, sculpture, and product and set design, as well as film.
‘A Brief History of Surrealist Master Salvador Dalí’
Artsy | JUNE 30, 2016 | BY SARAH GOTTESMAN
Gustav Klimt paintings tell the truth, the truth about life, the truth about beauty, the truth about love. The Austrian symbolist painter was one of the foremost members of the Vienna Secession movement, famous for his paintings, sketches, murals, and other works of art.
‘THE MOST EXPENSIVE GUSTAV KLIMT PAINTINGS SOLD AT AUCTION’
Widewalls | June 29, 2016 | Ana Moriarty
That New York’s NoHo neighborhood was once Jean-Michel Basquiat‘s old stomping grounds is more or less common knowledge within the art world’s collective memory.
‘Jean-Michel Basquiat Gets a Plaque in NoHo’
Artnet | Rain Embuscado | June 29, 2016
Using video, sculpture, painting, installation, and performance to explore the politics that shape modern life and culture inside the theocratic kingdom, the newly mounted group exhibition, Parallel Kingdom: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston Texas, gives a glimpse into life in the Persian Gulf.
’12 Saudi Arabian Artists Explore the Kingdom’s Future’
The Creators Project | Antwaun Sargent | June 29, 2016
Frustrated by the constant questions about her experience as a woman in the Middle East, Yemeni Egyptian American photographer Yumna Al-Arashi wanted to show another side of wearing the hijab in her project Northern Yemen; one that conveys Yemeni women’s power, grace and beauty without showing their skin or face.
‘REVEALING THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF YEMENI WOMEN’
Feature Shoot | June 29, 2016 | Elizabeth Sulis Gear
