Tag: contemporary art
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Exclusive: Near-mint condition preprint copy features 36 portraits of stars including John Lennon and Mick Jagger https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/27/rare-original-proof-of-david-baileys-1965-box-of-pin-ups-discovered?utm_source=semafor more ›
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Nigerian artist John Madu drew on his home country’s experience to revisit the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Madu’s work is now on show at the Van Gogh Museum in… more ›
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This report provides timely, data-driven insights drawn from public auction results across Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips between 2018-2025, alongside Sotheby’s proprietary bidder data. Together, this unique combination of public and… more ›
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In a left-field move, Art Basel has appointed the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky as the artistic director of its inaugural Doha fair. Art Basel Qatar (ABQ), a partnership between the… more ›
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Forty years on, Richard Avedon’s iconic series “In the American West” still resonates with the United States’ current political and social landscape. The New York photographer’s powerful portraits of working-class… more ›
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Also key to the CoBrA ethos was a rejection of traditional Western art’s lionisation of the solitary, artistic genius, and a focus, instead, on producing collaborative pieces such as murals… more ›
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An awful personal prophecy is coming true. Way back in 2019, when AI was still a relatively niche topic, and only the primitive GPT-2 had been released, I predicted the… more ›
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We instinctively tie weight to value. Gold is solid. Wood is dense. And back when we still printed things on paper, a heavy stapler was a luxury. If something is… more ›
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A selection of images from my first monograph, Undercurrents, published by TImezone 8. The work consists of 5 stories photographed in China from 1999 – 2008. Sino-Russian North-Korean tri-border. China.… more ›
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You could be a Surrealist or a Futurist or a Post-Impressionist or a Cubist. You could align yourself with Art Deco or Dada or Bauhaus or Fauvism. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-new-aesthetics-of-slop more ›