To celebrate the 25th anniversary of JAY-Z’s Reasonable Doubt, his pioneering debut album that forever changed Hip Hop, the legendary artist, entrepreneur and philanthropist has commissioned multi-disciplinary artist Derrick Adams to create a one-of-one animated digital artwork that comments on and recontextualizes the album’s iconic cover, which will be sold by Sotheby’s as an NFT in a special single-lot auction. In this video, join Derrick Adams at his studio in Brooklyn as he reflects on the importance of Reasonable Doubt, recontextualizing the cover and his greater artistic practice.
July 2021 Art News
In Saudi artists Kawthar Smaren and Suliman Hilal’s photograph, they capture a convex mirror in a bedroom that features an Arabic statement that reads, “Souls may actually be farther than they look in reality.”
At what point can an object become art? The opinion that the original "Star-Spangled Banner" is now a work of art is the tried and true view of this "Art & Object" columnist.
The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) added more than thirty outstanding and diverse works of art to its collection in June through purchase and gifts. Among the many highlights of the new acquisitions are meditative still lifes by the 17th-century and 19th-century artists.
Although her first work was as a model, Lee Miller (1907-1977)—the trusted confidante of many influential artists and an eyewitness to some of the most extraordinary moments of the twentieth century—made lasting contributions as a photographer.
The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture is now accepting new submissions through August 2nd, 2021
Savannah College of Art and Design is pleased to announce the launch of a digital art exhibition showcasing the legacy of Savannah painter, educator, museum founder, and civil rights activist Virginia Jackson Kiah, Ph.D.
You can digitally preview up to 4,000 antique and contemporary frames from Lowy’s vast collection with any artwork of your choice.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art will unveil the acquisition of "Mount Superior, as viewed from Alta, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah" in an exhibition that will explore the origin of the work.
