$60 for $31K street art in Central Park
World-famous British street artist Banksy flogged original canvases for just $60 in Central Park over the weekend as part of a month-long residency in New York. While his work can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, his website announced that minimal interest and sluggish sales resulted in takings of just $420. The stall was […]
The Effect of the SAC Indictment or Lack Thereof…
Over the last few months hardly a day has gone by without some news story about SAC Capital. It seems that journalists around the globe having been filing stories en masse about everything and anything having to do with the government’s case, Steve Cohen’s art collection and his recent real estate acquisitions. Last week the […]
FASHION HOUSES TO MAINTAIN ITALY’S BEAUTY
Fendi will finance a renovation of Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain, becoming the latest luxury group to fund repairs to priceless heritage in times of austerity. The 2.12 million euro ($2.85 million) repairs on the nearly 300-year-old fountain will be finished by 2015, Rome’s city hall and Fendi said in a note. Fendi’s artistic director Karl […]
ARCHITECT WANTS YOU TO 3D PRINT YOUR NEW LIVEABLE HOME…ON THE MOON
A Dutch architect has designed a house “with no beginning or end” to be built using the world’s largest 3D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be used to print houses on the moon. Janjaap Ruijssenaars, 39, of Universe Architecture in Amsterdam, wants to print a Mobius strip-shaped building with around 1,100 square metres […]
THE LOUVRE TO OPEN IN ABU DHABI WITH $654 MILLION PRICETAG
A consortium led by Dubai-based Arabtec Holding will build the Louvre Abu Dhabi art gallery for $654 million, the developers of the project announced on Tuesday. Abu Dhabi Tourism Development and Investment Company said construction would start immediately with the aim of opening the museum in 2015. The contract was awarded to an Arabtec-led joint […]
ART ON FIRE
In the Italian city of Naples, the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum has launched a protest, Art War, against the Italian governments’ austerity cuts by burning works of art from around the world. The Art War began on April 17 and reportedly will continue until the cuts are revoked — three pieces a week. French artist […]
BANKSY INSPIRED BY THE CHURCH
The anonymous street artist Banksy is known for his graffiti work and graphic statements. His latest work is a sculpture being displayed at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool alongside artistic masterpieces by Rubens and Van Dyck within room three of the museum’s 17th century old master galleries, reported CultHub. His new art work, Cardinal […]
BACON ON BLOCK: £18 MILLION
A “seductive and sexually charged” Francis Bacon painting entitled The Portrait Of Henrietta Moraes, is expected to fetch £18 million ($27.8 million) when it goes on sale at Christie’s in central London on February 14, according to The Huffington Post UK. Francis Outred, Christie’s head of post-war and contemporary art, Europe, said: “Searing with raw […]
SHAKE IT LIKE A POLAROID
The German-based company Lightboys has created polaboy, a wood frame with 5,000 lumens of LEDs that resembles a Polaroid. Each frame is ten times the size of an actual Polaroid, providing both art and function with ample mood lighting. You can select from their special edition collections which include odes to Paris, Ocean Drive, NYC […]
SEE SOUND BY DEAF ARTIST
Performance artist Christine Sun Kim focuses on what she calls “the physicality of sound”. The taste curators at Nowness posted cult filmmaker Todd Selby’s short showing how Kim works in NYC’s Chinatown as she picks up sounds from the streets and balloons to create “seismic calligraphy” with the help of nails and vibrating subwoofers. Kim […]