OUR BLOG
All
Love or Hate: Art Made by Robots
Art World
Love or Hate: Art Made by RobotsBy definition, art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture. But what if a piece of artwork was made by a robot operated by a human? Is it still “art” then? And while many are prepared for robots to make life…
Young
Art Market
Not So Young Anymore: YBA Follow UpKnown for their “shock tactics” and an attitude described as "both oppositional and entrepreneurial,” the Young British Artists dominated British art in the 90s. In 1988, the YBAs, led by Damien Hirst, began to exhibit together in London. It all started with Freeze, their art exhibition that took place in an empty London Port Authority…
Art Market
How is China’s Current Art Market?$354.8 million That’s how much works by Chinese modernist painter, Zhang Daqian, who died in 1983 generated in auction sales in 2016. And before that, modernist painter Zao Wou-Ki’s artwork set an auction high at Christie’s by selling at $19.6 million. According to an article on Artsy in 2016, China surpassed the U.S. in auction…
Art World
Meet Adrien Brody, the ArtistYes, that Adrien Brody - the youngest to ever win an Academy Award for Best Actor Adrien Brody. At first, you may wonder if he is an actor playing the part of an artist or doing research for a role he is about to play. But then you see Brody with his work and realize…
Art World
Charging Bull vs. Fearless Girl: Artist’s Right to Intangible Power“My bull is a symbol for America. My bull is a symbol of prosperity and for strength." - Arturo Di Modica In December 1989, Arturo Di Modica with the help of a friend, without the proper permits or permission, placed a 3.5-ton bronze bull sculpture in Manhattan’s Financial District as a symbol of freedom and…
Art World
Art and Eroticism – Art and Nude Series: Part. 2In Nudes, Prudes, and Attitudes, we ask: Why does art nudity occupy a special place in the cultural consciousness? Perhaps the fascination or rather, the tension we feel when faced with nudity in art is that many have a primal instinct to associate nakedness with eroticism. And that any nude body is always somehow a…