“The user takes a photo of an artwork with a mobile device. Within seconds, Magnus provides the name of the artist, gallery price, past dealer and auction prices of other works, and the artist’s exhibition history. The image can be shared via text, email, Instagram, Facebook and other social media, and saved in the user’s digital collection.”
Category: visual
New Dallas Architecture Sucks. But Why?
“This bastardized visual language has become the de facto standard of Dallas residential architecture development. The explanation for its ever-increasing prevalence, however depressing, is fairly straightforward.”
Fan Fiction: Peter Schjeldahl On The Computer-Generated Rembrandt
“Like its literary equivalents, it mimics the effect of a particular creator’s art. Working backward from that point, it passes the creator’s intention – intelligence, emotion, soul – coming the other way. There’s no harm in it.”
Stolen Edvard Munch Recovered After Seven Years
The lithograph, titled Historien, “shows an elderly bearded man speaking to a young boy and was valued at the time of its theft at 240,000 euros ($244,000).”
Top European Art Award Cancelled After Two Of Five Finalists Withdraw
Said the awards committee, “The jury believes that the recent discussion has overshadowed the intentions of the award and could eventually comprise the nominated artists.” The chairman added, “It is the strong idea of the jury that the Vincent should be about art. But that was not the case any longer.”
Naked Donald Trump Painting Going Up In London Today, Despite Death Threats
Artist Illma Gore: “While it is obviously a great shame that I cannot exhibit it in the USA due to censorship and also threats from Trump supporters to harm both myself and the artwork, I am so excited that it will finally be exhibited in a gallery space where interested parties can come and see it ‘in the flesh.'”
The Artist Who Fell In Love With A 6-Foot Tall Polaroid Camera
“You pull the film out of the camera from below, you guide it out. There’s something about that gesture that I’ve always said reminded me of delivering babies.”
We Need To Stop Trying To Deny Our Brutalist History
“The term brutalism borrows from the French béton brut, or raw concrete. Depending on who you consult, those surfaces represent honesty, technological innovation or sheer newness: as the critic Reyner Banham wrote, ‘a radicalism that owes nothing to precedent.'”
The Pritzker Prize Winner Gives Us A New Blueprint For Cities
“The most significant project, as the one most likely to justify the Pritzker committee’s hope that Aravena is offering new ways forward, is his role in the reconstruction of the Chilean city of Constitución after the earthquake and tsunami of 2010.”
When Museum Protesters Take Over The Museum’s Walls
“An artist from Bushwick, Sarah Quinter, wrote an open letter to the museum, saying the conference participants engaged in speculation and were part of an ‘epidemic of gentrification’ that endangered the stability of neighborhoods.”