Category: visual

This isn’t as unfair as it might sound: the money is mostly going to improving city infrastructure and maintenance in the area around the church, which gets more than 3 million visitors each year.

Why has this become the working definition of “coming to auction”? Because, by and large, we’ve tacitly come to accept that market-leading gatekeepers are the sources that matter most in charting the history of the art market. And as the market becomes an increasingly powerful force in shaping public understanding, they also become (like it or not) the sources that matter most in charting the history of art itself.

Some might see it as a PR move. “The decision to re-open the museum reflects the government’s desire to assert normalcy, as president Bashar Assad’s forces, with the help of Russian military assistance, have re-gained control of much of Syria.”

The singer wanted a summary judgement on artist Lina Iris Viktor’s lawsuit against him for copying visuals from her paintings, but the judge wouldn’t grant it. “When the creators of the blockbuster film Black Panther approached her about using imagery from her “Constellations” series in the movie, she said no. She also rebuffed members of Marvel’s PR team when they came back with a similar request.” And yet … well, compare her paintings and the “All the Stars” video.

Photographer Juergen Teller: “Most of my team aren’t British and everybody is now completely depressed. I just think, ‘What the fuck am I doing? This building is here, my children are here’ – it’s a terrible moment.”

The sale is unusual not only as a first for the 252-year-old auction house, but because the expected price for the print was between $7,000 and $10,000.

A member of the art collective (called Obvious) behind this project explained, “On one side is the Generator, on the other the Discriminator. We fed the system with a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th century to the 20th. The Generator makes a new image based on the set, then the Discriminator tries to spot the difference between a human-made image and one created by the Generator. The aim is to fool the Discriminator into thinking that the new images are real-life portraits. Then [when the Discriminator can no longer tell the difference,] we have a result.”

A blaze broke out last Saturday at the Dia:Beacon museum in upstate New York. The cause: overheating of an electrical element in a newly-acquired work by artist Mary Corse, reportedly worth $1 million. (The artwork was unnamed but was likely Untitled (Electric Light).)

“Installing Shadows (1978-79) according to Andy Warhol’s precise instructions has always been tricky. Not only does this single, monumental work consist of multiple silk-screened and painted canvases (102, to be exact), but they must also hang in the round, edge to edge.”