Huge Stash of “Degenerate Art” Seized by Nazis Found in Munich – is this a Cover-up?
Some days the intrigues of the international art market are more exciting than others. This is one of them. About 1,500 modernist masterpieces – thought to have been looted by the Nazis – have been confiscated from the flat of…
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Dale Chihuly – Utterly Breathtaking
I went to the Musée des Beaux-Arts (aka the Montreal Museum of Fine Art) today to see the Dale Chihuly show, Utterly Breathtaking. It was pretty impressive (breathtaking even). To be honest, the idea of going to see an exhibition…
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Post Roundup – the Book of Faces Edition II
This week’s topics: Women in Street Art, Colour Use in Marketing, Vintage Cookbook Illustrations, the Psychology of Over-Exposure to Art, a New Show by Jenny Holzer, and Scientific Illustration of Ugly Extinct Creatures as Body Art. Whew! It’s not every…
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Barbara Kruger – Subverting Subversion
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Her work takes the visual language of mass commercial communication and flips it. Basically, she appropriates commercial photographic imagery and overlays it with philosophical slogans that run counter to the imagery. This inversion…
Is the Art Market About to Crash Again?
The prices being fetched for fine art at auction these days are, to put it frankly, mind-boggling. According to Artprice, a French company that tracks the global art market, the total value of all works sold June 2012 to June…
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