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Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice — Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Credit: Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times | Image source: nytimes.com

Slow Art Movement – How the Art World Relearns Art Appreciation

Recent studies show that the average visitor of a museum looks at an art piece for less than 30 seconds — 17 seconds being the average. Museum spaces sometimes are not helping this and seem to encourage the "more is more" way of thinking. All the crowds that can push you from one piece to…

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How Can You Make Money With Your Art Online?

Being an independent artist was never and will never be an easy thing to do, as handling your art business in marketing, sales, supplies, and financing, on top of your daily studio work, can turn out to be more than a chore. This article will provide you with the basic ideas you'll be able to…

Art World Goes NFT Craze: Future or Fad for Digital Art? — Crypto-art piece by Beeple, “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” sold for almost $70 million | Image source: techthelead.com

Art World Goes NFT Craze: Future or Fad for Digital Art?

By now, you have undoubtedly heard of the famous auction of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days (2021). The fact that it has sold for $69 million has been the headline of many news sources — and it is no surprise, considering NFT was relatively unknown despite the fact it existed since 2015. This, along…

Art Market, Art World

Andy Warhol’s Legacy and the Business of Art November 12 - The Whitney Museum of American art opened the most significant Andy Warhol retrospective in almost 30 years. A fantastic opportunity for the new generation of Americans to get to know the work of one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century… well, at least for those who love art. “From…

The Proliferation of Art Biennales and How It Affects Contemporary Art Ever since the end of the 19th century, “Biennale” stands for a large international art exhibition held every two years. It showcases works of contemporary art that can’t be found anywhere in museums or underground, secretive art displays, or collections. The ancestor of all biennales is the one held in Venice, every second year since…

Frank Stella: In Pursuit of Ever-Evolving Experimentation Frank Stella has always been a jazz fan. His earlier work was positively influenced by jazz music which was visible in his paintings and all that peculiar dynamics. Similarly to jazz patterns, when rhythm goes syncopated beats, the composition in Stella’s 1964 work "Hyena Stomp" may seem a little twisted. And yet beautifully off-beat. It…

Art and Politics: Boundaries Where They Both Live Ever since Plato and Aristotle, the act of artistic creation became inseparable from the idea of the real world. Employing common sense as one of the main tools of a variety of aesthetic observation only seems logical as every art is political, given it takes place in society we live in. It influences or is…

Peggy Guggenheim and her beloved Lhasas | Image source: viaggidiarchitettura.it

Collector Extraordinaire: Peggy Guggenheim and 20th Century Art Patronage I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. “Had her private life been less colorful, would what she did for art seem less interesting?“ Anton Gill, the biographer of Peggy Guggenheim, asked this question…

ZENG FANZHI 曾梵志 "From 1830 Till Now No.4" (2014), oil on canvas | Image source: shanghartgallery.com

The Master of Chinese Reinvention – Brilliant Art of Zeng Fanzhi Not often do we get to be in the presence of majestic introspection beautifully communicated through color, shape, line, and idea on canvas, but when we do, it’s usually spelled: Zeng Fanzhi. What we used to (and still do) admire about Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other great contemporary painters in the context of…