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Ti Gong A featured artwork at the exhibition A colorful and splendid roll of ceramic art was unfolded at the Baoku Culture Center inside the iconic Shanghai Tower in the Pudong New Area on Sunday, presenting a feast for the eyes with works from 30 artists.Ceramics have accompanied the development of human civilization since the Neolithic Age. At the end of the Eastern Han ...
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A year ago, crypto and NFTs seemed unstoppable. In January, Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton hyped Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs on The Tonight Show and just days later FTX aired a blockbuster ad starring comedian Larry David during Super Bowl LVI. We know how those stories turned out. As of this month, everyone is getting sued! Meanwhile, the Web3-heads who put their crypto ...
Just over a month ago, Christie’s launched a new division meant cater to one of the most coveted demographics among auction houses, millennial and Gen Z buyers who want to spend their disposable income on hard-to-find sneakers, like those from a collaboration between Louis Vuitton Nike Air Force 1. But now, that division, branded as Department X, seems to be on shaky ground. Part of ...
The French art world has been astir for months about the future of FIAC, which used to be the biggest art fair held regularly in Paris. Earlier this year, Art Basel revealed plans to launch a new fair, Paris+. In the process, it kicked FIAC out of its longtime partnership with the Grand Palais and its October slot. Anne-Claude Coric, executive director of Paris’s ...
In July, I joined a small group for a tour of the collection of the Shaker Museum in Old Chatham, New York, where we meandered among metal shelves filled with thousands of wooden boxes and benches, baskets and tables, brooms and bureaus, chests and ladder-back chairs, all meticulously catalogued and digitized. Despite the obvious care invested in the objects’ documentation and organization, however, the ...
In the middle of a park in Long Beach, local artist Mufasa was encouraging kids and grown-ups alike to unleash their inner creativity.Along with fellow artists Mister Toledo and Josh Garcia, Mufasa set up big sheets of white paper, with cups of paint and paintbrushes scattered enticingly around. After a few hours, the paper was filled with colorful depictions of faces, a palm tree, ...
What makes a great patron? There are as many answers as there are great patrons in the institutional art world. Typically, financial support plays a major role. But a truly exceptional patron, according to Guggenheim Museum director Richard Armstrong, has the capacity to imagine the uncharted heights an institution can achieve. In a catalogue devoted to Marieluise Hessel’s art collection, Armstrong cites her as ...
In their current exhibition, “Shaper of God,” on view at REDCAT in Los Angeles through October 2, American Artist probes the life of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006). Both Butler and Artist grew up in the nearby town of Pasadena, and the show highlights how the novelist’s imagined worlds were shaped by the environment they shared. The show includes two sculptures based ...
