Andra Matei (L), the free-speech lawyer representing ODEE (R), says they will “take the fight to the very end.” COURTESY Andra Matei On Thursday, a judge in the UK ruled in favor of Iceland’s largest fishing company, Samherji, after it sued an Icelandic artist who, posing as the company, apologized for its alleged role in …
Walter Dahn. Photo Andrea Stappert Walter Dahn, an artist whose paintings reacted against Minimalism and Conceptualism with humor and grace, earning him a cult following both within Germany and abroad, has died at 70. His death was announced on Wednesday by his gallery, Sprüth Magers, which did not state a cause. Dahn was a member …
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View of Jeffrey Gibson’s “WE’RE POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT” at MASS MoCA. Greg Nesbit There was a lot of talk about portals earlier this month at MASS MoCA, the enormous art space in Western Massachusetts now playing home to an eye-popping, shape-shifting installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson through the winter of next year. Gibson …
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Installation view of “Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature,” 2024, at the Broad, Los Angeles. Photo Joshua White/JWPictures.com/Courtesy The Broad “If you have all my multiples,” Joseph Beuys once said, “then you have me completely.” The polymathic German sculptor was referring to the editioned objects that bore the intellectual and emotional freight of his artistic …
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Installation view of “Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad,” 2024–25, at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, featuring Mohammed’s flying horse, Buraq, as a coin-operated kiddie ride. Photo Jon Verney/Courtesy the artist, made with MASS MoCA Drone-operated flying carpets held captive inside a Taj Mahal–shaped cage; a mammoth head of the British colonialist Sir Cyril Radcliffe moonlighting …
Ai-Da Robot (Aidan Meller), A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, 2024. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s recently sold the first artwork made by a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for $1 million, blasting past its estimate of $120,000 to $180,000. On November 7, the artwork A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the …
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King Arthur’s Hall probably has nothing to do with the king, who himself may not have existed. courtesy Cornwall National Landscape An inconspicuous stone and turf monument on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, southwest England, is likely 4,000 years older than first thought, according to local archaeologists. The rectangular structure, coined King Arthur’s Hall and previously …
TURIN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 24: A man walks near a Banksy artwork during the “The World of Banksy” Art Exhibition at Porta Nuova Railway Station on February 24, 2022 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images) Getty Images 38 people across Europe are suspected of involvement in a sweeping scheme to create and sell …
Installation view of “Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation,” 2024–25, at Whitechapel Gallery, London, showing Black Female Hairstyles (1995) on the wall and Exquisite Tension (2007) on the video screen. Photo Above Ground Studio For its fall programming, London’s Whitechapel Gallery decided to present an intriguing pairing of exhibitions of two artists who at first may …
National Gallery, London, 2024 Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This year marks the 200th anniversary of London’s National Gallery. From humble beginnings it has grown into a cultural icon of the United Kingdom, housing some 2,400 works and now attracting several million visitors a year. The concept of a National Gallery was born after …
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