If you use social media at all or are remotely keyed into the art world, then you probably heard about the stunt that Banksy pulled at a Sotheby’s auction. I’ll get more into the stunt itself in a second, however, what Banksy pulled - much like his body of work itself - speaks volumes about…
If you love art as much as I do, you’re probably just as interested in museums. Sure, learning and understanding art is one thing, studying it out of a book is surely another, but seeing art in the - for lack of a better word - flesh can be an emotional and moving experience. Visiting…
There seems to be a popular trope in music, TV, film, and in art itself that all the best artists are tortured. When we think of artists we automatically think of the artists that experienced great pain and suffering, we think of the writers who drank themselves to death while writing, we think of filmmakers…
The only thing more dramatic than art is perhaps the artists who make it. Artists are notorious for having wild lives with twists and turns that are almost too cinematic to be true. From getting arrested and tortured by their countries to tumultuous marriages to court cases, artists have some of the most interesting lives…
When you think of artist couples, who do you think of? Do you think of Frida and Diego? What about Krasner and Pollock? My personal favorite is Abramovic and Ulay. These two performance artists are responsible for one of my favorite pieces of performance art, “The Other: Resting Energy,” 1980, where Abramovic holds a bow…
3.) Art F City This website is a festive and new option to mainstream print criticism that mixes criticism, reporting, political activism and news on an almost 24 hour news cycle. That blend could more or less be even more varied, and transcultural, if a few forward thinking, art minded investors would put in some…
3.) Woman III Woman III is a painting done by the abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. Woman III is one of a series of six art works done by de Kooning. All of the paintings were created between 1951 and 1953. There was a general theme that kept up with each painting in the…
