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Above: ”Black Iron Ursa'' was made using Singularity Black paint. Credit: NICHOLAS PFOSI for THE BOSTON GLOBE | Image source: bostonglobe.com
Color Wars – How Art World Responded To Monopoly
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Georgia O'Keeffe with Juan Hamilton | Image source: historydaily.org
Who Was Georgia O’keeffe’s Younger Man, Juan Hamilton?
When John Bruce Hamilton first met Georgia O’Keeffe, the 84-year-old doyenne of modern American art was so annoyed by his unexpected presence that she looked right through him the entire time he was there. Hamilton, a broke 27-year-old, newly divorced potter, tagged along with a friend with the intention to help fix the plumbing at…
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Alberto Giacometti Sitting with his sculptures, via Gagosian Gallery, New York (left); with Homme Assis by Alberto Giacometti,1950, via Christie’s (right) | Image source: thecollector.com
How Giacometti’s Existentialist Figures Became The Art World’s Obsessions
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. – Alberto Giacometti One of the most admired and famed Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti takes the top three spots on the list of the highest-priced sculptures in art market history. L’Homme au doigt (1947) was sold for $141.3 million…
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Where in the Art World for #MeToo MovementIt was inevitable. The entertainment business and politics have always found their way into the art realm. So when #MeToo found its way in both, it was only a matter of time before the art world paid attention and started to take action as well. Although Tarana Burke first used the phrase in 2006 to…
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William Wegman and WeimaranersFrom Sesame Street to Saturday Night Live to the Smithsonian – American artist, William Wegman’s has an impressive and eclectic resume. As a conceptualist, an early pioneer of video art, painter, and photographer, Wegman quickly made a name for himself after he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1965 with his work being…
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Banksy Unmasked and Why We Love HimIn 2010, "Guerrilla artist" Banksy would make the Time’s list of the world’s 100 Most Influential People. And in true Banksy style, he would supply a photo of himself with a brown paper bag over his head. To those who know and love Banksy, this behavior is in no way disrespectful to the illustrious publication.…
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Net Neutrality and Saving the InternetWe’ve all lived with the Internet for so long that it’s hard to imagine it not being a free and open medium. But the reality of that freedom being taken away from us became all too real as we watched hundreds of protests across the country took place on December 7, 2017, as they tried to…
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The Story of Picasso’s Women“There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.” – Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso’s love for women started at an early age thanks to his father who started bringing him to brothels in southern Spain at the age of 13, instilling in him an insatiable sexual desire that would burden yet inspire him…
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Cindy Sherman, Selfies and InstagramSherman’s Untitled Film Stills (1977–80) marked the turning point of Sherman’s emergence in the art scene. Her Centerfold series would follow. And her 1981 Untitled #96 (in picture below) from that series would become one of her most notable works, which was auctioned for $3.89 million in 2011 - making it the most expensive photograph…