On Tuesday, Twitter user @ZuwuTV, an NFT trader and collector, noticed that an employee for the popular NFT marketplace OpenSea seemed to be involved in insider trading. The $1.5 billion startup’s head of products, Nate Chastain, was suspected of using several secret Ethereum wallets to buy exclusive OpenSea NFT drops before they were officially listed…
New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery now represents the rising artist Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu, who will have her first solo exhibition with the gallery in January. A self-taught artist who learned to hone her craft by watching art instructional videos on YouTube, Chiamonwu has quickly established herself as an artist to watch for her hyper-realistic portraits…
Beachwood, OH, USA, September 16, 2021 — Neue Auctions’ online-only Art & Antiques auction on Saturday, September 25th at 10 am Eastern time, is an exciting offering of more than 400 lots that include undiscovered finds in many categories. Most were acquired from regional estates and longtime collectors. Paintings, works
According to Erin Jane Nelson’s mom, the first word the artist said as a baby was flower. In the context of Nelson’s newest body of work, this is fitting. The pieces touch on invasive species, pathogenic fungi, sewer drains, frogs, national borders, climate collapse, colonialism, and—yes—flowers, obliterating distinctions between human and nonhuman worlds. Nelson’s exhibition…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Looking for a gift for an artist friend or a child in art school? Here is a list of a dozen things we think every artist—whether they work in traditional media, in a less…
Wilton, CT, USA, September 14, 2021 — University Archives’ next major online-only auction, slated for Wednesday, September 29th at 10:30 am Eastern time, is titled Fabulous Autographs & Art, From Van Gogh to Hendrix. The 410-lot auction is jam-packed with historical autographs, rare books, artwork, posters, photographs, ephemera, collectibles, and
A fake Francis Bacon work seized by Italian police. Courtesy Arma dei Carabinieri, Unit for the Protection of the Cultural Italian police have confiscated nearly 500 works of art believed to be Francis Bacon counterfeits. The artworks, along with various other personal effects that were seized, are worth about €3 million (approximately $3.5 million). Five…
Kids love dressing up in costumes and exploring different pretend roles. Art supports them in letting their imaginations soar, and mask kits give them the opportunity to create wearable art, a tangible expression of their dreams. Masks are fun and easy to make, and once created, they’re great for make-believe play, a crucial part of…
The London-based Scheherazade Foundation has returned a collection of artifacts that were looted from Ethiopia in 1868. Tahrir Shah, one of the Scheherazade Foundation’s cofounders, bought some of the works privately at the Busby auction house in Bridgeport, England. The artifacts were pulled from public auction the day before the sale was set to take…
Local Filmmaker To Premiere His New Family Film, “YOU LIKE TO DRAW?” SEPTEMBER 11, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Local filmmaker, Todd E. Braley, is premiering his locally made family film “YOU LIKE TO DRAW?” September 11th, 2021, 7:00 pm at the Salvation Army Grand Junction Corps on N. 4th Street
Heiner Pietzsch, a German collector who built a world-class collection of Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist art, has died at 91. The Berlin State Museums, which now holds the bulk of Pietzsch’s collection, said that he died in the German capital on Tuesday after a long illness Pietzsch, with his wife Ulla, bought top-tier works by…
Yolanda M. López, the pioneering Chicana artist whose work reclaimed the iconography of the Virgen de Guadalupe in order to offer Chicanas and Latinas new ways of seeing themselves, has died at 79. The news was confirmed in a statement posted to Facebook by her son, Rio Yañez, who said she passed away on the…