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...
Feb 25, 2021 | Art, Auctions
Even the illustrious, ivory tower world of private art sales took a hard hit from 2020. And maybe it’s a little of a relief to see that even the unimaginably wealthy have felt the need to tighten their belts this year too. The most expensive piece of art to sell...
Feb 24, 2021 | Art, Museums, New York
The wealth of any museum is almost always hung on its walls. The collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, for instance, is estimated to be worth somewhere between $100 and $400 billion dollars. (A very rough estimate – no museum would ever...
Feb 17, 2021 | Film, News & Trending
Black artists are missing from our art museums, our galleries, our exhibitions. In the major art museum’s collections in the United States, according to filmmaker Sam Pollard, 85 percent of artists are white. Only a tiny fraction of that, 1.2 percent of artists,...
Feb 17, 2021 | Art, Culture, Donations, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
According to a 2020 report on the Creative Economy in California, one out of every seven jobs in Los Angeles is in a creative field, be that art, music, studio production, theater, or anything related. Those jobs generate an estimated $203 billion annually in LA...
Jan 22, 2021 | Art, News & Trending
Kolam, sometimes known as Muggu, is a traditional form of geometric art from Sri Lanka and other parts of Southern Asia. Normally drawn in flour, sand, or powdered pigment on the ground in front of a home by the female family members, it is meant to welcome all into a...
Jan 15, 2021 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art was able to reopen after several months of prudent closure during the spring and summer of 2020, they’ve done so with reduced capacity, limited hours, and reservation requirements that mean that not everyone who wishes to...
Jan 5, 2021 | News & Trending, Profiles
Harumichi Shibasaki is 73 years old, a grandfather, and wears square little glasses and sweaters over button-downs. He is not what one pictures of a viral sensation. But the internet is full of surprises, and he is a delightful one. Shibasaki is a watercolor painter,...
Dec 9, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
For almost sixty years, the almost candid painting of the Holy Family has hung in a town hall in Brussels, in their urban-planning office. They knew the painting, in its gloomy colors and familial setting, was the work of Flemish Baroque master Jacques Jordaens, but...
Dec 8, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
It must have been a bit of a shock – the helicopter pilot and his handful of passengers were out somewhere in the Utah desert counting sheep (yes, it sounds like a joke, but it’s science). Poking into a red rock canyon to look for more of the bighorns, they...
