When Christie’s hosted its first Art + Tech Summit in 2018, the topic was the blockchain. The second edition, in June 2019, focused on artificial intelligence. Blockchain and AI are two big, buzzy topics, and they have intersected in unexpected ways, especially during this year’s crypto art boom. Artists whose work uses generative adversarial networks (GANs)— algorithms that pit computers against each other to...
Known for his abstract compositions, the New York–based artist Ali Banisadr recently described his paintings as “quite encyclopedic” and “trying to gather different fragments of information and knowledge from different sources,” as he told Brooke Jaffe during an “ARTnews Live,” our ongoing IGTV series featuring interviews with a range of creatives. Influenced by classic literature and the work of Old Masters like Bruegel, Bosch, and...
Until 2020, the Works Progress Administration, a Great Depression–era government program that gave billions of dollars to artists during the 1930s, was largely the stuff of high-school U.S. history courses. But it didn’t take long for it to become the source of fascination within the art world once the pandemic struck the U.S. and Europe. In late March of last year, a mere two...
A screenshot from a video that's part of Stanford art department's "404: Space Not Found" exhibition shows a rendering of a virtual gallery show with works by six undergraduate artists. Courtesy Stanford Department of Art & Art History The dreaded "404" error message, when it turns up on a website, usually accompanies an otherwise empty page. Though the spring 2021 Undergraduate Honors Thesis exhibition...
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission An art subscription box is one of the best gifts you can give yourself or a creative friend. Typically delivered monthly, these kits come with specially curated supplies, whether paints, inks, or paper, to surprise and inspire you. Because everyone’s preferences are different,...
The Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles, who is known for exploring notions of identity through her brightly colored painting of segmented and contorted bodies, has joined Hauser & Wirth. The mega-gallery will represent the artist in collaboration with Pilar Corrias in London. Quarles’s work is currently the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the X Museum in...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines WITH MUSEUMS SHUTTERED DURING COVID LOCKDOWNS, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah’s Great Salt Lake became a hot ticket. One day in March of 2020, some 700 vehicles visited the remote site, the Art Newspaper reports. “There was a big increase in visitors during the pandemic, but the uptick has continued,” Kelly Kivland, a former Dia Art Foundation curator, said. (Dia...
JACKSON, Wyo. — Bradford Overton has spent two decades building a visual lexicon singular to his eye as an artist and his experience as a native of the West. Now based in Salt Lake City, Overton draws deeply from his individualized vocabulary in his new series of paintings. His upcoming show at Altamira Fine Art speaks simultaneously to the past, present and future of...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, May 28. NEED-TO-READ Jimmy Lai Imprisoned for Another 14 Months – The Hong Kong art collector and media tycoon was sentenced to 14 months in jail for his involvement in the 2019 pro-democracy protest under...
Cornerstones hires director of external relationsMary Madigan has been appointed director of external relations at Cornerstones, the Santa Fe-based nonprofit that works with communities to restore historic structures. She came to Santa Fe in February 2020 as executive director of Santa Fe Pro Musica. Her position was eliminated later that year as part of the company’s fiscal response to COVID-19.“I made my career in...
