Feb 26, 2016 | News & Trending
In 2015, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair was a pop-up event in Brooklyn. That was a test, to see if there was a market for the full show, which has been a London event for the past three years. Their 2015 success in New York paved the way for this year’s...
Feb 24, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
Following the February 20th shootings in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts will offer free admission through the end of February. Admission is currently free. Six people were killed and two critically injured in the incident; the suspect has since...
Feb 22, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
Just because you might never get to go to space doesn’t mean your art can’t. NASA has invited the public to send art to Asteroid Bennu on its new spacecraft, the OSIRIS-Rex, or the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer....
Feb 19, 2016 | Gallery, News & Trending
A fifty-year-old lock of John Lennon’s hair that is being called “significant” is going up for auction in Dallas by Heritage Auctions. The hair was freed from Lennon’s head in 1966 on the set of How I Won the War, a Richard Lester film in which Lennon played Musketeer...
Feb 17, 2016 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Ebony Patterson has a lot to say about her homeland, Jamaica of the 1990s. Now a resident of Kentucky where she teaches at the University of Kentucky, she uses art to say it. Her first solo show, Dead Treez, originally designed for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center...
Feb 15, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
Strictly speaking, the ghostly white sculptures on the defunct New York Central rail platform in Syracuse, NY are graffiti. Duke Epolito had no permission to place the eerie human shapes there in 1982 when he did. But the lumpy fiberglass figures have been there for...
Feb 12, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
It turns out that life really does imitate art. The Art Institute of Chicago has created an exhibit called van Gogh’s Bedrooms, and for ten bucks a night, visitors can rent a real-life replica of Van Gogh’s famous painting of his bedroom in Arles, France. The bedroom...
Feb 10, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
In 2007, artists Lucy and Jorge Orta (known together as Studio Orta), journeyed to Antarctica to create a series of “social sculptures” celebrating and speaking about the Antarctic Treaty. The five-decades-old agreement, signed by 53 nations, has maintained the...
Feb 8, 2016 | News & Trending
When computers first became an important fixture of the average household, they held a lot of promise and a lot of new innovations. Of course, they also had some vulnerabilities, and people who were good with computers took advantage of those vulnerabilities by...
Feb 5, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
Here’s some justice for the art world: Eric Ian Spoutz, a fairly well-known art dealer in Michigan, was arrested this week in California for selling fake masterpiece artworks. The federal complaint filed against him says that Spoutz sold dozens of works he falsely...
