Expected to sell between $31 million and $41 million USD. The 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting entitled Warrior is set to become the most expensive piece of Western artwork to be auctioned in Asia, expecting to be sold between $31 million and $41 million USD. The piece will be sold at next month’s Christie’s Hong Kong […]
According to reports, an art collector has now purchased a portfolio of artwork done by Kanye West as a teenager. Entrepreneur Vinoda Basnayake sought after the array of paintings and drawings across multiple mediums after they surfaced in a 2020 episode of PBS‘ Antiques Roadshow. During the segment on the beloved series, it was revealed that the paintings were owned by a […]
In 2019, Ai-Da became the world’s first AI humanoid to pick up a pencil and create art without any human input. Armed with a microchip in her eye, a robotic hand, and a groundbreaking algorithm, the robot can draw and paint from sight, and has since staged her first solo exhibition (raking in a fair amount of […]
Since 2020, art destinations have had to adapt to the conditions brought on by the ongoing pandemic. But amidst the countless zoom-studio visits and Instagram-live conversations, Puerto Rico’s Embajada Gallery, has stood out by the way it has continued to expand its reach. Founded in 2015 by the husband and wife duo of Christopher and Manuela […]
“Wet Paint,” the popular art world gossip column, features a regular pop quiz challenging readers to guess the provenance of privately held artworks based on closely-cropped screenshots. The contests are Keith Kelly-meets-Louise Lawler, teasing a Robert Longo in American Psycho, a Willem de Kooning statue poised on some Swiss art collector’s Zurich lawn, and Eli Broad’s Cy Twombly hung behind Rashida Jones in […]
When Daniel Johnston passed away in late 2019, his absence was felt not just by music fans, but also those in the visual arts. He had been garnering a following for his cartoon-like vibrant drawings—mostly made with markers and pencil on standard printer paper—since he began his music career in Austin, Texas in the 1980s. […]
It’s been a pretty weird year for the institution of marriage: COVID-accelerated engagements, Zoom weddings, and even their Before Times-counterpart, the ill-advised “normal” ceremony. It was only a matter of time before a foil emerged: the Zoom divorce proceeding. On Wednesday, Mary-Kate Olsen, the celebrated fashion designer, reached a “final agreement” in her divorce from estranged husband […]
Based out of Northwest Ohio, near the city of Toledo, the artist Paul Verdell paints and draws a variety of people with plenty of personality. Like most artists, he has drawn since he was little, but didn’t make a real go of the medium until he was in his mid 20s. That was when he […]
You may know Coco Capitán for a number of reasons. Her evocative photographs or atmospheric paintings are grounded in an inherent understanding of form. Her signature typeface, on the other hand, is instantly recognisable in its unconventional, hand rendered personality. An aphorism previously seen on the site back in 2019, when we met Coco’s football […]
Like many working artists, Catherine Repko remembers a childhood fuelled by creativity. She had a handful of encouraging art teachers that helped grow her confidence in the field, which meant that by the time she graduated, her sight was undeniably set on art school. “I don’t really remember making that decision, it just was,” she […]