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The acclaimed painter and cultural icon was lost to the world on the fourth of July 1995, exactly 27 years ago. The American artist enjoyed an illustrious career before his death, creating over 30,000 artworks in less than 40 – three times more than Picasso, who 13,500 artworks over an estimated 80 years.However, despite the sheer volume of Ross originals, collectors will find themselves ...

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 Wednesday, June 22. NEED-TO-READ Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million – Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov’s 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal fetched an impressive $103.5 million at Heritage auction house after an extended bidding war on ...

Bob Thompson’s vibrant scenes resonate with an unplaceable familiarity, recalling canonical Western paintings but with more dreamlike and largely inscrutable narratives. Monsters, featureless figures, jazz musicians, and processions of animals replace religious figures; references to contemporary events infiltrate mythological tales; bold, flat planes of color abstract realistic classical compositions. Under Thompson’s hand, a Fra Angelico composition of a beheading becomes the scene of a ...

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 this Thursday, May 12. NEED TO READ U.S. Museums Free Deaccessioning Period Has Ended – The two-year period permitting museums to spend money generated from the sale of art on operating costs rather than the acquisition of ...

“It’s just a feeling—it’s just a feeling. It’s like how do you tell somebody what it’s like to be in love? … You cannot do it do save your live. You can describe things, but you can’t tell it, but you know it when it happens. That’s what I mean by freedom.” So intones Nina Simone in an archival interview when asked to explain ...

The Wollongong Art Gallery is grappling with shock revelations a prize donor with a gallery named after him was likely a Nazi collaborator before emigrating to Australia in 1950 from Lithuania.Key points:Bob Sredersas donated 100 artworks, including work by Arthur Streeton, to the Wollongong Art GalleryNow he is being investigated for Nazi linksThere's debate about what to do with the gallery named after himBronius "Bob" Sredersas donated ...

Bob Dylan, One Too Many, 2020 Image courtesy of Bob Dylan Over the past 60 years, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has produced some of American culture’s most illustrious, genre-defining songs. His poetic lyrics and innovative melodies, showcased in such hits as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” have inspired anti-war protesters and Rock ‘n’ Roll stars like Bruce Springsteen alike. Now 80, Dylan ...

Focusing on a seldom-seen side of one of the most indelible American artists of any kind, “Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum” will be the biggest and widest-eyed survey of Dylan’s visual artwork ever presented in the U.S. when it opens in Miami this week. After an earlier run two years ago at the Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai, the exhibition at the Frost Art Museum at ...

MIAMI -- Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. But recently America’s master lyricist has also captured moments in a new series of paintings that, just like his songs, are intimate and a bit of a mystery.The most comprehensive exhibition of the Nobel laureate’s visual art to be held in the U.S. goes on display on Tuesday in Miami at ...

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Matrix, from Ghost in the Shell to Paprika (and its American counterpart, Inception), all the way to the German miniseries World on a Wire, the interaction between humans and artificial intelligences has been an inspiration for artists and filmmakers for decades. Artist Ian Cheng, whose work is rooted in live simulations, has been pondering this relationship in ...