Apr 30, 2021 | Art, Donations, Museums, News & Trending
Lee Kun-Hee passed away in 2020, as the wealthiest person in South Korea. Third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul and long-time chairman of the Samsung Group, he made Samsung into one of the forerunners of smartphone manufacture and digital technology. At the time...
Apr 23, 2021 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
No one knows what the petroglyphs in Track Rock Gap mean. Deep inside the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia, the oval shapes carved into several boulders clearly meant something to the ancient artists, but a thousand years of time stand between us and a...
Apr 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Profiles
Clementine Hunter is perhaps one of the most important folk artists in American history. Born at Hidden Hill Plantation in Louisiana, she spent her youth as a farm laborer with her parents, working for the owners of the plantation. She never learned to read or write,...
Apr 9, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Bisa Butler’s stunning art quilts are vivid, bold, and lavish in detail. Made from hundreds of pieces of cloth and millions of stitches each, every one is a portrait. A painting in textiles. Originally a high school teacher, she began quilting with the leftover...
Apr 2, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Resources
The Louvre’s entire collection is one of the largest in the world, with approximately half a million paintings, sculptures, drawings, writings, and artifacts. They span most of recorded history, from a 9000-year-old neolithic clay figure up into the very recent...
Mar 26, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
Most of the over 2,100 pieces of art left behind by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are in public hands, which is wonderful. Anyone can go to a museum and see most of his works – the largest collection of them are in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds...
Mar 18, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery
Wandering around the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallery on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia at a contemplative pace is a bit of an unusual art patron. Gordon is short, skinny, and black. Oh, and it’s a robot. “It is a stand in for a...
Mar 10, 2021 | Art, Auctions, Culture
At some point in the 1980s, looters swiped a stone sculpture of a Hindu diety from a small shrine in Nepal. After several years on the black market, it appeared at auction at Sotheby’s. Despite a complete lack of provenance, the art auction house sold it to a...
Mar 5, 2021 | Art, Articles
It’s so easy to acquire digital art that many people, even professionals working on corporate design, tend to think of it as ownerless. Or at least valueless. After all, if a file can be infinitely replicated, how can it be owned? But digital art has rights of...
Feb 26, 2021 | Art, News & Trending
For a long time, as long as art has been an investment commodity, it has been used to launder money among the wealthy. A seller determines a price, has it appraised for that price by a friendly professional, and then sells it among his inner circle, often via a shell...
