Everyone stuck at home is tired of looking at the same stuff. Online art sales, it turns out, have surged during the pandemic. Auction house Sotheby’s sold $285 million worth of fine art and decorativ…
The Arts
A painting that dares to stare back at you
Looking at pictures teaches you to live with uncertainty. Yes, there are other ways to learn the lesson. (Living through a pandemic will do it.) But if you want to combine an apprehension of strangene…
Painting of Poetic Commerce
The global pandemic has only magnified an existing loneliness epidemic. It didn’t create it. Yes, loneliness was an epidemic during the time we now refer to as “before” (like the pre-apocalypse world …
Qi Baishi paintings worth £15k ‘bound for student flat’
Three Chinese watercolours which were bound for a student flat have been valued at £15,000. The paintings by Qi Baishi were found by auctioneers valuing the contents of a family home in Staffordshire.…
Leonardo da Vinci and the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting
A long lost painting authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci was sold for a world record price of $450m in a dramatic auction in New York in 2017. The price stunned the art world and created a …
Take a look at the world’s largest painting
Upon its completion next month, the 1,980-square-meter artwork will be cut into 60 pieces, which painter Sacha Jafri is auctioning off in the hope of raising $30 million for charity. Source: http://ww…
Beirut’s once-thriving cultural community was already at breaking point. Then the blast hit
At the moment that one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history blasted outwards from Beirut’s port and swept across the city, Zeina Arida, the director of Sursock Museum, was standing o…
MIT and Microsoft build a new algorithm to find hidden links between historic paintings
If you use Twitter regularly, you must’ve come across celebrities as food tweet threads. Some examples are Rihanna as Indian food and Olly Alexander as cakes. The idea is to match the look and color o…
British Airways to sell art collection to ease Covid-19 pressures
Multimillion-pound collection features work by Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn Cool Edge by Bridget Riley, one of several pieces of art being auctioned by British Airways. Photograph: Soth…
Vincent Kolo, Nigerian artist, wins $50,000 Nefertiti prize for African creativity
Vincent Kolo, a Nigerian, has won the $50,000 Nefertiti grand prize for creativity at the maiden edition of Africa Integration Day. In a statement by organisers of the event, Kolo won the prize with h…