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Christie’s Toured Masterpiece by Edgar Degas Using Hologram Technology

David Boos May 19, 2022

To promote a masterpiece of Edgar Degas for an upcoming auction, Christie’s decided not to physically ship the sculpture around the globe, but instead opted for holographic projections of the work.

The Political Economy of Speed

Carlos Perona Calvete April 28, 2022

World order will tend to follow its own momentum. Rivals to U.S. hegemony like China do not, therefore, represent an alternative world-order, but an alternative bid for leadership over developing structures of biopolitical control.

London Art Gallery Adds ‘Woke’ Labels to Masterpieces

David Boos April 22, 2022

Édouard Manet’s world-famous “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” is the latest piece of art to receive a ‘woke’ trigger warning for its “unsettling” presence of a male in the painting.

Socialite Scammer Exhibits Drawings at New York Art Show For $10,000 a Piece

David Boos April 13, 2022

Proceeds from the sale of scammer Anna Sorokin’s drawings are intended to cover her legal costs, with 15% of the revenue to be donated to an “unspecified children’s charity.”

The Soul within the Beast

Harrison Pitt April 3, 2022

No beast is troubled by the fact of being a beast, still less moved to produce art expressing such anxiety. Even in our most savage conduct, human beings are nothing like wild animals. We are distinctly human, at times even fiendishly artistic, in our beastliness.

America’s Soprano Still Sings!

Paul du Quenoy March 27, 2022

Listening to Renée Fleming in an intimate recital nearly five years after her semi-retirement, one has to wonder if she left too soon. She has upcoming April concerts in France, Germany, Lithuania, and the UK.

Canadian App for Contemporary Art Appraisal Uses AI to Predict Artists’ Careers

David Boos March 23, 2022

An app dedicated to evaluating the quality of artists networks uses AI to predict not only the price trajectory of art works, but also of entire artists careers. Big companies and museums are willing to trust the system and predict a growing arts market in the coming years.

Romanticising Rebellion

Daria Fedotova March 10, 2022

Fictional rebellions invite us to side with the underdog. The story conveniently ends with their victory, but leaves no ruined lives and no unhealable scars—nothing to contradict the idea of a newly found paradise.

Searching for the Lost Mizrahim

Jorge González-Gallarza March 2, 2022

Having thrived for millennia amidst Arab societies despite their inferior status, Oriental Jews were swiftly uprooted in a matter of decades by the Arab-Israeli conflict. A once-in-a-lifetime exhibit at Paris’s Institute for the Arab World attempts to synthesize conflicting narratives of trauma and nostalgia.

Repin Revisited

Hélène de Lauzun December 26, 2021

A major retrospective of the work of the Russian painter Ilya Repin (1844-1930) is being held for the first time in Paris at the Petit Palais from October 2021 to the end of January 2022.

Tag: art

Christie’s Toured Masterpiece by Edgar Degas Using Hologram Technology

The Political Economy of Speed

London Art Gallery Adds ‘Woke’ Labels to Masterpieces

Socialite Scammer Exhibits Drawings at New York Art Show For $10,000 a Piece

The Soul within the Beast

America’s Soprano Still Sings!

Canadian App for Contemporary Art Appraisal Uses AI to Predict Artists’ Careers

Romanticising Rebellion

Searching for the Lost Mizrahim

Repin Revisited

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