Nov 29, 2021 | Art, Auctions, Culture, New York, News & Trending
The fall art auctions in New York City are always worth a watch, and this year they’ve blown away old records. A surge in global wealth among the already-wealthy and an urge to lock money into inflation-resistant investments like fine art have been the major...
Nov 22, 2021 | Art, Culture
Hong Kong’s newest art museum is already feeling a bit of pressure. The M+ Art Museum in Hong Kong opens this week, a 700,000 square foot temple to contemporary art. Debuting with over 8,000 works, it is one of the world’s largest and most representative...
Aug 10, 2021 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
Rico Worl released the design for a U.S. postage stamp celebrating Tlingit culture, a first for the Alaskan Native American tribe. Rico Worl, who lives in Juneau, Alaska, is Tlingit and Athabascan. Some years ago, he grew concerned seeing a large tourist market in...
Jun 11, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
It’s finally happening – The Obama portraits are going on tour. And they’re starting at the Art Institute of Chicago. Unveiled in 2018, the official state portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have been a large draw in the National Portrait Gallery in...
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 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...
