Archive for November 2018
Sotheby’s fourth quarter off to a slow start
After recent reports of third quarter losses for Sotheby’s 2018 Fiscal Year, the auction house looked to Q4 (the fourth quarter) for an uptick. However, only a few weeks into […]
D.C.’s short-lived amendment to censor arts funding
On Monday, 5 November, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) applied an amendment to the grants that were already approved for recipients. The sweeping language of the […]
Lionel Aeschlimann : Art Banker
Mirabaud is one of the largest and one of the oldest private banks from a historical financial centre, Geneva. Through the years it has grown internationally with subsidiaries in close […]
Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf’s mysterious art exhibition is here!
The mystery around ‘Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures,’ the debut collaborative exhibition by Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf, bolstered the anticipation for the exhibition which opened on […]
One family’s search for artwork stolen by Nazis feels more like a Nicholas Cage movie
Crowd-sourcing is not an uncommon thing these days. Scrolling through any social media you will find posts looking to fund new projects, medical treatment, and any number of causes. However, […]
Forgotten women artists highlighted by new database
‘The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.’ In 1929, Virginia Woolf’s feminist text A Room of One’s Own was […]
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport is now a creative district
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport was opened in the 1940s under Nazi rule, and it hasn’t seen a flight take off on one of its runways for about a decade. The airport’s […]
