The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
The Crypto Craze Rages On – An NFT work by Beeple sold for $6.6 million, while bidding for the artist’s work Everydays skyrocketed up to $2.3 million...
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‘It’s All Happening’: As an NFT Artwork by Beeple Sells for $6.6 Million, Market Observers Are Torn Between Jubilation and Alarm
The buzz was deafening following Christie’s recent announcement that it would offer the first-ever purely digital artwork at auction: Everydays—The First 5000 Days by Mike Winkelmann, an...
New York City Lost Two-Thirds of Its Arts and Entertainment Jobs in 2020, a New Report Finds
New data is shedding a harsh light on how hard New York City’s arts and culture has been hit by the pandemic. Between December...
Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits, and Why Seeing Great Art is Like a Reading a Book
Alteronce Gumby spends his days in his Bronx studio engaged in an intricate process of setting small pieces of broken glass into his jewel-like...
A French Appeals Court Has Found Jeff Koons Guilty of Copyright Infringement Again—and Hiked Up His Fines
In a double hit of bad news for art star Jeff Koons, a French appeals court not only upheld a 2018 decision that found...