THE PHOTOGRAPHER approached the trio on his bike, a bundle of gear balanced on his front fender and a wide-brimmed hat covering his head. A discussion ensued. Hubert, the first of the three to speak, took the man for a fellow enthusiast of far-left politics. Peter suspected a questionable sales pitch. Adolphe, at the head of the cluster, offered apologies for his companions’ brusqueness. No worries, the photographer countered; he was there, in fact, to propose a group photo a slice-of-life shot that, he insisted, would be “for science’s sake only, and for the archives: a personal record of the
SIXTY YEARS AGO, in Artforum’s very first issue, our founding editor, Philip Leider, threw down the gauntlet for art’s autonomy. “Art and artists will flourish when an admiring public buys paintings because they love them; if the myth that buying art is a good investment (in the Wall Street sense) is perpetuated, the result can only be disaster for both.” I took his words from a blistering review of two 1961 publications on art and money as an early expression of the magazine’s ethos, which made speculation a constitutive exclusion. The keyword for me here was not myth or disaster but love.I
A written agreement outlines collaboration between the University of Arkansas and the nonprofit Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that will extend to the diplomas of students in a soon-to-launch graduate art history program.
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Insider spoke with several artists and industry experts to see how they feel about the NFT craze.
Some see NFTs as simply a trend among investors that involves little substantive cultural interest.
Others see the value it could hold for artists themselves, especially in regards to payment for art.
In the past month, non-fungible tokens have skyrocketed in popularity, with NFT art pieces selling for millions of dollars. One of the most notable instances is an artist named Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, who sold a piece for nearly $70 million in March.