Directed by Barry Avrich, the 2017 documentary “Blurred Lines: Inside the Artworld” examines the forces that shape the contemporary art world. The documentary, which focuses on the important actors of the art market, especially artists, art dealers, collectors, museums, auction houses, and art fairs, reveals various problems regarding the functioning of the system. Avrich compares […]
Contemporary Istanbul, the leading annual art fair celebrating its 15th anniversary is set to launch its online platform proudly sponsored by Akbank, Virtual Contemporary Istanbul, on the 21st December. It will be live until the 6th January 2021 in lieu of the in-person event, which has been postponed this year due to the pandemic. However, […]
The Iranian artist Razi Razavi establishes a dialogue with the audience through symbols by following the traces of the past. He seeks for the conscious and transformation passed down from generation to generation. The mutant figures depicted by the artist in his artworks build a bridge between the past and the future. We had a […]
Farzin Rahneshin considers art as a part of his life. He produces paintings in which he deals with the void and embodies the images in various ways by examining each emotion, living thing and object in life in a deconstructive manner. We had a conversation with the Iranian artist Farzin Rahneshin, about his adventure to […]
Artists’ Letters is an intriguing collection of 100 carefully selected letters from great artists which provide us with a unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Letters and notes from Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya, Van Gogh, Picasso, Dali, Kahlo, Warhol and Yayoi Kusama are reproduced, some of which include sketches, drawings and […]
Somerset House, London, 8 – 10 October 2020 Highlights: • 36 international exhibitors from across Europe, Africa and North America will showcase work by more than 110 artists at the Somerset House fair and via 1-54 Online Powered by Christie’s • Christie’s also to host a 1-54 pop-up exhibition at the Duke Street Gallery at […]
This October sees the return of Frieze Sculpture in Regent’s Park and a hybrid programme of online and offline activity, reaching audiences worldwide via Frieze Viewing Room as well as celebrating the vibrant art scene in London.
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Director Milos Forman used Goya’s drawings, especially the series titled “Los Caprichos” (“The Caprices”), for visual inspiration, and the cinematography can truly be called painterly. Like the Goya prints being examined by the good fathers […]
The sci-fi action movie Tenet, directed by Christopher Nolan, tackles the twisted values of artworks and the intrigues swirling in the backstage, using the art market as a crime scene. The protagonist, John David Washington plays a CIA agent. Armed with only one word – Tenet – and fighting for the survival of the entire […]
The film is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refugee who together with her young lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt’s iconic painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which was stolen from her relatives by the Nazis […]