Perched on New York’s High Line, a six-metre-tall (20-foot) pigeon is watching over the city’s residents and challenging their views about themselves and the place in which they live. The hand-painted statue, called Dinosaur, was created by Colombian artist Iván Argote and is on show at the converted elevated railway line in southwest Manhattan. “I … Read more
Tetra Images | Getty Images Attorney J.D. Harriman is skeptical about some of the art market’s sales techniques. “There’s very little genuine information and data on pricing,” he told CNBC via video call. Prices for artworks are “rarely” displayed at galleries, he said. “When [galleries] have a new artist, they’re not going to post prices, … Read more
Denver sound artist Jim Green, whose best-known public art includes a playful installation under a block of Denver’s Curtis Street and the train calls at Denver International Airport, died on Wednesday in Florida at age 75. Green was a prolific and highly collaborative artist, friends and colleagues said, pushing the boundaries of art with playful, … Read more
The opening of Biennial exhibit “Even better than the real thing” at The Whitney Museum of American Art on March 12, 2024, in New York City. Sean Zanni | Patrick Mcmullan | Getty Images New York City’s art museums are among the most popular in the world — the Metropolitan Museum of Art (known as … Read more
In an era where technology and traditional skills blend seamlessly, one grandmother is earning substantial income from her artistic talents. Helen Ashton, a 60-year-old from Leicester, has turned her love for painting and art into a lucrative business, bringing in an extra £4,500 each year, with ambitions for even more. Five years ago, Helen Ashton … Read more
Taylor Swift performing during “The Eras Tour” at Veltins Arena on July 17, 2024, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Andreas Rentz/TAS24 | Getty Images LONDON — Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” has helped the singer become a billionaire and boosted the economies of the multiple cities she’s performed in. Fans attending her U.K. shows spent upward of … Read more
One of Canada’s greatest painters, who wedded Indigenous elements to the mainstream of modern art, has died. Alex Janvier, whose thousands of works hang in private homes and public galleries across the country, was 89. “Painting says it all for me,” Janvier said in a statement in 2012. “It is the Redmantalk in colour, in … Read more
Visitors at the Summer Exhibition 2024 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which runs from June 18 to Aug. 18, 2024. Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry Contemporary galleries — and an upscale hotel Multidisciplinary artist Lauren Baker, who is exhibiting at the Venice Biennale until November, named contemporary galleries — … Read more
Animal rights activists have defaced the first official portrait of King Charles with a cut-out face of a cartoon character at a gallery in London. Two activists with Animal Rising stuck a poster from the Wallace and Gromit animated series over the bright red painting on display at the Philip Mould Gallery on Tuesday. The activists were criticising the … Read more
“Billie Dreaming in Blue,” 2021. Harris, who has taught in the U.S. and abroad for much of his postgrad life, can talk like an academic (“There was a desire to find that subject position . . . as well as the desire to lay claim to a space of greater visibility and agency,” he says in a collection … Read more
