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6 Artists Share Their Surprising Side Hustles
It’s widely known that many renowned artists had day jobs before they hit it big: Jeff Koons was a Wall Street commodities broker, Mark Rothko was a schoolteacher, Barbara Kruger was a graphic designer, and Cindy Sherman was a receptionist at New York arts venue Artists Space. But it’s not just a historical phenomenon. Some […]
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Get Ready for Beach Season With These Artists’ Takes on Bathers, From Paul Cézanne to Eric Fischl, in a New Show in London
As an “ode to the ultimate summer muse,” London gallery Saatchi Yates has organized the exhibition “Bathers,” on view through August 10. Artists have depicted this subject since Classical antiquity, showing mythical scenes like that of the hunter Actaeon stumbling on the goddess Diana bathing in the woods, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Venus emerging from […]
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Celebrities, Collectors, and A-List Artists Turned Out in Force for the City’s First Art Basel Since 2019
Pharrell Williams was spotted at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong. Artist Rashid Johnson posed with fans, as did Beeple and Takashi Murakami. Qatar Museums chair Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani was out on the event circuit. Not to mention a number of top collectors from around the globe: London-based Saudi-born Abdullah AI-Turki, […]
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Dozens More Works in the Met’s Collection Have Been Linked to Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, March 20. NEED-TO-READ NEA Report on State of the Arts – New data on the art and cultural sector shows that it had a larger […]
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Four Artists Have Been Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. See How Their Works Unpack Themes of Identity and Power
Photographs tend to flatten—in multiple senses of the word—the subjects they depict. But do they have to? The medium’s capacity for complex, multidimensional depiction is front of mind for Bieke Depoorter, Samuel Fosso, Arthur Jafa, and Frida Orupabo—the four artists nominated for this year’s prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023. Their work is on […]