Damien Hirst Mixes NFTs and Fire

Damien Hirst Mixes NFTs and Fire

Damien Hirst burns 1000 of his own signature paintings, and he says he’ll burn thousands more to make his point about the value of art. “The Currency” is a project that Hirst began six years ago. He painted 10,000 unique paintings, all abstract works of colored...
SEE MONSTER Pioneers Reuse

SEE MONSTER Pioneers Reuse

SEE MONSTER is one of the UK’s largest art installations, built and planted on a mega-platform standing on the beach of Weston-super-Mare. The massive oil rig structure was once a gas platform n the North Sea. Weighing 450-tonnes, it was brought by barge to...
Abigail Disney vs The Mouse

Abigail Disney vs The Mouse

Abigail Disney puts out a documentary criticizing the legacy of her family, after years of outspoken disagreement. Abigail Disney is the granddaughter of company co-founder Roy Disney, Walt Disney’s brother and the numbers man behind the whole organization. For...
Met Opera Opens With Medea

Met Opera Opens With Medea

The Met Opera season opens for 2022, with a lushly dark staging of a play written over 200 years ago. “Medea” by Luigi Cherubini and François-Benoît Hoffman premiered in Paris in 1797, and turned heads then. It’s based on a much older play, written in the 400s...
Nirvana Lawsuit: Nevermind

Nirvana Lawsuit: Nevermind

Nirvana wins a lawsuit over their 1991 Nevermind album cover, brought by the man who was featured on it as an infant. The cover of Nevermind by Nirvana, featuring a nude infant with nothing censored underwater in a pool being tempted by a dollar on a fishhook, was...