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Mona Lisa Curse?"Art should make us feel more clearly and more intelligently. It should give us coherent sensations, which otherwise we would not have had. That is what brought me to this city. That is what market culture is killing.” – Robert Hughes The Mona Lisa Curse is a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary film by art critic…
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Identical Twins: 3D Printing and Art AuthenticityAs an online art platform, we’re always super interested in the intersection of art and technology and what that means for the art world. There are so many fascinating things happening in that space! And this one's a doozie– when 3D printing meets art, how do we judge the authenticity? The Next Rembrandt The Next…
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Nudes, Prudes, And AttitudesHave you ever seen a picture of Michelangelo's David or been lucky enough to see it in person? It’s a stunning sculpture art, with incredible attention to anatomical detail. It’s arguably the most famous sculpture in the world. Oh, and he’s naked. Totally exposed. Maybe you heard about Poppy Jackson’s 2015 performance piece, Site, in…
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Why Is Art So Expensive? – Art and Money Series Part 1What would you do with $500 million? (We’re talking record-setting-Powerball money here.) Perhaps, pay off your student loans, buy a home, and take a really fabulous vacation—but that’s peanuts to $500 million. For that kind of money, you could buy this 28-bedroom medieval castle outside of Paris—10 times over. You could buy a hundred Koenigsegg…
The Dinner Party installation art by Judy Chicago | Image source: thingsmag.us
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40 Years Later, We Still RSVP Yes To Judy Chicago’s Dinner PartyPicture a triangular table, 48 feet to a side. Along each side, there are 13 place settings—39 in all. Each setting has a runner embroidered in a unique style. Along the first side, the places are reserved for mythical and historical famous women from prehistory to the time of the Roman Empire. The second side…
Morgan Library II - Limited Edition 1 of 10, photography by Reinhard Görner | Image source: saatchiart.com
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My Journey: In Search For The Ultimate Digital Art WorldOh Rembrandt and More Rembrandt.. My Inspiration In the second year of my Masters program at Christie’s, I interned at the Morgan Library and Museum’s Drawings and Prints Department as a curatorial researcher. After graduation, I was hired for the museum’s very first online art cataloguing project, “Corsair,” for the museum’s extraordinary Rembrandt prints (etchings)…