The Hadley’s Art Prize, launched and funded by a hotel magnate in Tasmania and believed to be the world’s richest prize devoted to landscape art, went to Peter Mungkuri for his Ngura Wiru (“Good Country”), an ink-on-paper drawing about his remote birthplace in South Australia.
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The New Billion-Dollar Temples Our Tech Giants Are Building
Tech giants are now in the same position as great powers in the past – the bankers of the Italian Renaissance, the skyscraper-builders of the 20th century, the Emperor Augustus, Victorian railway companies – whereby, whether they want to or not, their size and wealth find expression in spectacular architecture.
Rock Musician Alice Cooper Finds A Long-Lost Andy Warhol In A Tube In A Storage Locker
Yes, that headline sounds like word salad, but it’s real: “The work in question is a red Little Electric Chair silkscreen, from Warhol’s Death and Disaster series. Never stretched on a frame, it sat in storage alongside touring artefacts including an electric chair that Cooper used in the early 70s as part of his ghoulish stage show.”
This Photographer Lived With And Documented The UK’s Industrial Poor
Chris Killip says of his subjects from English towns in the 1970s and 1980s: “They are at the tough end of things, the people in my photographs. … It’s about the struggle for work, being out of work, fighting for work.” (And yes, he sees parallels to the United States today.)
Is The Stirling Prize For Architecture The Worst Prize Ever?
Rowan Moore is not happy with it. The Stirling “has a magnificent record of not recognising the projects that define their time, of favouring everyone’s second choice and nobody’s first choice, with the result that you could write a convincing history of modern British architecture based on the projects that haven’t won.” And this year? It missed again.
The Modern-Day Palaces (Or Are They Cathedrals?) Of The Tech Giants
The tech giants “have, plainly, colossal resources, with the ability to do almost anything they like. They can have new materials invented, or make old ones perform as never before. They can build the biggest and most expensive workplaces yet seen. They can change cities. They have already redefined ‘architecture’ in the sense that the word can now refer to the structures of software and hardware. Now the old-fashioned version of architecture finds itself an adjunct of the new sort. “
Have Selfies Gotten In The Way Of Real Experiences?
“A symptom of modern living, but a no less inevitable one, require we live in a state of constant negotiation: between the pull of the world and one’s own conditioned desires. The writer Jenna Wortham, in 2013, described selfies as part of “a timeless delight in our ability to document our lives and leave behind a trace for others to discover.” If social media first intended to connect us, its promise has taken a sharp, inauspicious turn inward: the self has become paramount, the correspondence second.”
The Smithsonian Has Discovered The Magic Of Kickstarter, Raising $1 Million And Finding New Audiences
“We’re not only trying to fund the projects, we are reaching audiences that we might not reach through other channels,” said Scott Tennent, the Smithsonian’s director of advancement communications, noting that three-fourths of the Kickstarter backers are new to the Smithsonian. “We can raise awareness that the Smithsonian relies on public support. That’s something people don’t always realize.”
Stolen Francis Bacon Paintings Recovered In Spain
Three of the five works taken from the Madrid home of one of the artist’s friends were found by Spanish police following a tipoff from a team asked to authenticate one of the paintings. Several suspects were arrested last year.
Federal Judge Okays Copyright Lawsuit Against Richard Prince – And Ruling Sounds Ominous For Defendant
“Photographer Donald Graham … alleges that Prince unlawfully used his photograph Rastafarian Smoking a Joint (1996) when he enlarged an Instagram post of it for his New Portraits show at New York’s Gagosian Gallery in 2014.” The judge noted in his ruling that “Prince has not materially altered the composition, presentation, scale, color palette and media originally used by Graham.”