Archive for March 2019
Artwork by Eric N. Mack has disappeared from Desert X and no one really knows where it went
Desert X this year hasn’t gone off without a hitch, but it is a biennale featuring artworks mostly outside in a desert. There is plenty of potential for issues at […]
A statue once housed in a mouldy box now believed to have been made by Michelangelo
Two decades after a small sculpture of the Virgin cradling Christ after his crucifixion was bought for next to nothing by a collector and now, it is believed the statuette […]
Deconstructed devices become art through the lens of one man’s camera
There’s a perverse pleasure that comes from taking something apart or seeing exactly how things tick. However, most people are brave enough to disassemble their favourite devices or day-to-day items […]
Kara Walker next to transform the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
In a press release on March 11th, Tate Modern alongside Hyundai Motor announced that New York-based American artist Kara Walker will create the fifth annual Hyundai Commission for the Turbine […]
Through the window
A work of art is invariably a chunk of the world, whether real or “imagined”, carved out according to a form. And what better form could there be to frame […]
Basquiat show sells out before it even opens
A survey of about 70 artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat recently opened at the Brant Foundation’s newly-remodelled gallery space in New York’s East Village but if you didn’t snatch up a […]
Deal between Italy and France to loan works by da Vinci is back on
Remember a couple of months ago when it seemed that Italy was going to block the loan of a large number of their artworks by Leonardo da Vinci to France? […]
