Mar 7, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
Russian artists are speaking to oppose Putin’s war, but may suffer consequences for it. Kirill Savechenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva were the two artists set to represent contemporary Russia in La Biennale di Venezia, the glittering international art-world event...
Feb 28, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
An artificial intelligence won’t be allowed to copyright a work of art, according to the US Copyright Office. In 2019, Steven Thaler attempted to formally copyright a digital painting on behalf of an algorithm he’d made, called the Creativity Machine. The...
Feb 21, 2022 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
A security guard in a Russian art gallery damaged a million dollar painting by doodling eyes on it, in what is being called “a lapse in sanity.” Anna Leporskaya’s avant-garde painting Three Figures was painted at some time in the 1930s, and features three...
Feb 14, 2022 | Art, Gallery, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Nader Tehrani, the Iranian-born architect of the Melbourne School of Design, will be leading the renovation of the Met’s Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries. Nader Tehrani has honed his skills in architecture all over the world. He has erected works in...
Feb 7, 2022 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
The Foxes by Franz Marc is predicted to break records when it goes up for sale at auction in March, according to Christie’s in London. The Foxes, a poignant expressionist painting by German painter Franz Marc, was sold under duress by German-Jewish collected...
Jan 31, 2022 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
Picasso heirs are looking to enter the cryptocurrency market in a big way, selling off photos of a never-circulated Picasso original as NFTs. Pablo Picasso’s career was long and incredibly prolific. In the 75 years he spent making art, he produced an estimated...
Jan 24, 2022 | Art, Auctions, Culture, News & Trending
Konami auctioned off their first NFTs, featuring artwork from their famous Castlevania series. Together, they went for over $156,000. The Konami Memorial NFT Collection was minted to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Castlevania, a series of video games, comics, and...
Jan 17, 2022 | News & Trending
Christopher Wright made a name for himself by identifying a painting as fake. Now he’s sure he’s found a real one. Christopher Wright, 76, is a retired art historian. His expert career was built around 17th-century French painters like Poussin, Vermeer,...
Jan 10, 2022 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
A stolen portrait finds its way home. Even before WWII ended, the conflict over art appropriated into Nazi hands has been waged. For decades, documents showing the party had legally bought many works at auction from Jewish sellers were allowed to stand, making the art...
Dec 27, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
A comic book just sold for $2.6 million in auction via the online auction company ComicConnect, to an anonymous buyer. Superman #1 isn’t just any comic book. The 1939 issue is one of the Holy Grails of comic book collecting, with original survivors being...
