While art sales have been taking place online for years, for auction houses, closing in-person sales and viewings is still a leap into the unknown. Sotheby’s London tested the waters this week with their Contemporary Curated auction, and hopefully, the success of their sale is an indication of a still vital market.
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These incredible images, representing the best in photojournalism from around the world, are stunning for their technical and artistic skill, as well as the stories they tell.
The year 2020 was shaping up to be a watershed moment in the career of New Jersey-born Brooklyn-based quilt artist Bisa Butler.
In the wake of our global pandemic crisis, Etsy has exploded with coronavirus-related goods: there are nearly 25,000 items under the tag “social distancing.” Whether your needs are more practical or fashionable, Etsy probably has what you’re looking for.
Forget the "idle" pyramids of Egypt and the "useless" temples of Greece, the aqueducts of ancient Rome are the "most marvelous structures in the whole world." So claimed Roman writers in the 1st century AD.
One of the most popular museums in the US, the J. Paul Getty Museum averages almost 2 million visitors a year.
Banksy shared a new work of art yesterday, showing us what he has been up to while quarantined.
In the face of uncertain times, one of the world's most famous living artists, Yayoi Kusama, has offered a poem to give us some comfort. Via a press release from her gallery, David Zwirner:
Astrodoubt and The Quarantine Chronicles (ADQC,) artist Luca Buvoli’s new tragicomic mini-episode series, can now be viewed on Instagram.
For the 96th year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded its coveted grants to the best and brightest artists and scholars in the US and Canada.
