In the second major auction of AI art, a video installation shows endless AI-generated portraits Training algorithms to generate art is, in some ways, the easy part. You feed them data, they look for patterns, and they do their best…
I’ve Got to Give it to Sigma, the 85mm Art is Still my Favorite Portrait Lens
I am definitely one of those photographer’s whose favorite and go-to lens for portraits is the 85mm focal length. After loads of time spent with it, I can say that even now years later, the Sigma 85mm 1.4 Art is…
These Women Artists are Transforming Gallery Walls with Incredible Murals
Wall-drawing is one of our oldest art forms. Look back to the earliest cave paintings (or to your nearest dive-bar bathroom) for evidence of our natural inclination to express ourselves on the surfaces of walls. Parents reprimand their children for…
Boogie & The Art of Creating Through Frustration
Sometimes, the blank page just mocks you. The creative process can be frustrating and wholly unforgiving. But we stick it out because we have to. Somebody’s got to write the pieces we read, somebody’s got to make the music we…
From Brad Pitt to Beyoncé, All the Stars Inside All the Parties Hosted During Frieze Los Angeles
After critical and commercial success in London and New York City, the acclaimed art fair Frieze stretched its tent over Paramount Studios in Los Angeles last week. While the city’s long been a sanctuary for artists, gallerists and dealers have often undercut…
Art community mourns as Bisi Silva goes home
While, Nigerians were busy with the last minute preparations for the rescheduled presidential and national assembly elections last week, the entire art community, the visual art and the curatorial field in Nigeria suffered a huge blow with the news of…
Four Nigerian Spiritual Dance Rituals
Dance is one of many human ways of expressing art. But it can be more than just art. Sometimes it is very cultural and has spiritual significance embedded in its moves. In Africa, dance is one of many ways of…
Hilarious Fan Art Combines Will Smith’s Genie With Marvel’s Thanos
The internet’s amusing reaction to Will Smith’s Genie reveal from Disney’s Aladdin remake continues, as new fan art combines him with Marvel’s Thanos. If there’s one problem the immediacy of social media has created that didn’t really exist before for filmmakers, it’s…
Lagos, City of Hustle, Builds an Art ‘Ecosystem’
West Africa’s new art destination is a sprawling megacity with a generation of artists, gallerists and collectors powering the scene. Right, a painting by Samson Akinnire at the Signature Beyond Art Gallery booth at the Art X Lagos fair. Left,…
A new art and design fair in Brooklyn will charge galleries a commission on sales, not a booth fee.
A new fair is set to alight on a barren but hip corner of Bushwick, the gallery-laden Brooklyn neighborhood. Founded by Abby Bangser, the former artistic director of Frieze for the Americas and Asia, Object & Thing will open at…