To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BOOM AND BUST. The New York Times reports on several artists whose careers took off on the steepest of trajectories amid the bull market and “the notion that all artworks appreciate in value,” only to fall back down to earth with…
Like many famous artworks from the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) has a larger-than-life quality. The painting, which depicts the Roman goddess of beauty emerging from a shell accompanied by other deities, has been described as an allegory of love and rebirth, its central figure transcending the offensive, sensual nudity of…
If you work in the arts, you are used to staying tight-lipped about new works in development, and artists tend not to share their ideas beyond a trusted few. But, aside from being a routine habit, there are a number of financial and legal reasons for strict confidentiality around creative work. First, it’s a good…
For over a week, the mysterious street artist Banksy took to the streets of London and, under the cover of night, took the Big Smoke for a walk on the wild side by introducing stenciled wildlife into the urban cityscape. Every day, for nine consecutive days, a new Banksy mural depicting a member or members of…
During Amrita Sher-Gil’s brief but intense lifetime, the Hungarian-Indian artist tirelessly embraced her passion for painting, creating groundbreaking Modernist paintings that have influenced successive generations of painters and garnered intense market demand that far outstrips supply. Her work also catapulted her to become the only woman in the group known as the Navaratnas, the nine…