Published by the famous Prestel, “The Value of Art” is a priceless work revealing the dynamics of the art market in all its transparency. Michael Findlay, the author with an art expertise career of nearly half a century, identifies the three different values of art as commercial, social and essential, explaining in detail how processes […]
Norwegian collector Erling Kagge has more than one string to his fiddle: he is a publisher, a lawyer, a mountaineer that climbed on the Everest and the first person to have walked to the South Pole without company. His book published by Kagge Forlag of which he is the founder and director, is a pleasant […]
The Picasso Sculpture exhibition at MoMA running until February 7, 2016, is an audience hit. It focuses on more than 100 three-dimensional works the artist produced throughout his life, and it examines them from the perspective of material and creative processes. The book published by MoMA in parallel with the selection divided into chapters in […]
Banksy, a graffiti artist from Bristol, becomes a global phenomenon and begins to break auction records. The author Will Ellsworth-Jones wants to interview him without exposing his true identity bu he is refused. Then he decides to write an unauthorized book based on bits of information he himself collects. The book depicts an ironic and […]
The Whitney Museum of American Art was born out of a necessity to exhibit the living American artists normally excluded from the traditional art academies. The collection created by, as well as the Whitney Studio founded in Greenwich Village in 1914 by the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the first to realize this necessity, laid the […]
Founded in 1977, the New Museum was one of the most innovative museums of its time. While the other modern art museums in the USA generally focused on important masters, the New Museum’s program featured living artists relatively less well known, and their works no older than 10 years, thus introducing them to the global […]
Published by Thames & Hudson, the book is a valuable guide on how to look at, evaluate and enjoy contemporary art. With over 200 artworks created in the last two decades, Michael Wilson aims at rendering contemporary art accessible even to those who are not very familiar with the subject, also thanks to his reader-friendly […]
Considered by many authorities as the first contemporary art museum in the world, Centre Pompidou is a project envisioned by President Pompidou in 1969, with the aim of restoring the art capital status of Paris, a title it had lost to New York City after WWII. It was initiated as a multidisciplinary cultural center, also […]
Organized by Ege University, the 6th EgeART Art Days take place in Izmir with the theme “Perceptual Differentiation” between December 4 and 13. With the mission of bringing dynamism into the cultural and artistic scene of Izmir, the event uses a variety of the city’s venues, including Ege University Atatürk Cultural Center, Ege University Ethnographic […]
The year 2016 will be busy for the art enthusiasts. In recent years many parts of the world outside of North America and Europe emerged as art fair and biennial destinations. Here are the art fairs and biennials that will take the world by storm in 2016: Este Arte, Punta del Este, Jan. 5-8 London […]