Archive for January 2019
Final days: Gustave Moreau, towards dream and abstraction
Was Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), a Symbolist painter known for his poetic, intensely personal, often fantastic depictions of mythological and biblical subjects, also a pioneer of abstraction? This question is explored […]
New study sheds light on Rembrandt’s impasto technique
Works by Rembrandt (1606-1669) are often easy to spot. Trained completely in the North – unusual for the time, artists often worked towards studying in Italy – Rembrandt built a […]
Thieves flee New York’s Team Gallery by foot after stealing artwork
New York’s Team Gallery fell victim to a heist on the afternoon of January 10th and it wasn’t the high-tech, intricate kind we see in the movies. A man and […]
The inaugural Art World Conference set for April
Dexter Wimberly and Heather Bhandari have come together to create the Art World Conference (AWC). The new, to-be annual event will bring 300 artists and art professionals of all levels […]
248 Supreme skate decks set to sale for as much as $1.2 million
Come January 25th, Sotheby’s will be close an online auction on a slightly unusual collection at their New York auction house. An entire set of Supreme brand skate decks collected […]
Museum Workers in New York City Fight Back
Art museum professionals are breaking free of the “passion-as-payment” mentality facing many workers in the United States. In the past six months, staff members of two different modern and contemporary […]
Huge Damien Hirst bought by Las Vegas’ Palms Casino
The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas recently announced they’ll be adding a sculpture to a new pool that is under construction as part of the casino’s ongoing overhaul. We’re […]
