shining a light on the shadowy fine art industry
LVMH founder Bernard Arnault speaking at a conference held at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris in 2017.
Photo by Jérémy Barande / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay.
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This week, closing the loop…
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Screen capture of a tweet from Lil Nas X riffing on the climate protesters who threw soup at the van Gogh in London’s National Gallery in October.
This week, getting aggressive…
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Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist (1903–04). Photo by Steven Zucker/Smarthistory. Courtesy of Flickr via Creative Commons license.
This week, looking across the stage…
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Neymar on the pitch for his then-side, F.C. Barcelona, during a 2015 match against Villareal.
Photo: Alex Fau, with editing by Danyele.
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This week, extending the game…
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Jacky Connolly, still from Descent Into Hell (2022). Courtesy of the artist.
This week, sledding the uncanny valley…
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A tweet from Meta teasing the latest update to its Horizon Worlds V.R. app. Until its pending implementation, avatars will continue to be legless, a trait near the top of the list of reasons that critics see the entire project as comically amateur despite the millions being poured in.
This week, breaking up the holistic vision…
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Installation view of BarabásiLab's "Big Data: Networking the Artworld," on view at Postmasters Gallery's pop-up space at 484 Broome Street. Courtesy of the artists and Postmasters Gallery.
This week, another meaning for the old threat “they have your number”…
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Kevin Beasley, The Red Banana Tree (Forstall) (2022), is one of the inaugural works included in the Artist’s Choice initiative at the Contemporary Curated sale at Sotheby’s New York on September 30. Photo courtesy of Sotheby’s.
This week, expanding the frame of reference…
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Frank Stella, Geometry XXII (2022). Courtesy of Arsnl.
This week, from recent events to possible futures…
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Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin. Photo by John Phillips.
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This week, surveying the roadmap to the crypto art future…
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