Female Artists Fight for Equality. It’s Not a Pretty Picture.

On Thursday, Mnuchin Gallery and Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City will both launch shows dedicated to the work of Lynne Drexler, a painter whose trajectory follows a now-familiar narrative when it comes to women artists: though Drexler kicked off her career to much acclaim, even being compared to van Gogh, she languished in obscurity for most of her life. It took until 2022 for her works to be reevaluated and command impressive auction results—estimated to sell for $40,000 to $60,000 at Christie’s in March, one of her paintings…

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Fugitive art dealer Tristan Koenig may be in Melbourne, artist claims

Tristan Koenig, the infamous Melbourne gallery owner accused of seducing several angry artists he represented, escaped in August after an arrest warrant was issued. Released to arrest. According to local artist Mark McCarthy, Koenig – who sued him at At least seven artists– Was in Richmond, Melbourne on Monday evening. McCarthy told The Daily Beast that he bought a pair of shoes from an online seller who later recognized him as a runaway dealer after they met in person at 6pm on October 10 in the Melbourne suburb. Koenig’s last…

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Couple of teachers suspected of stealing $100 million may have stolen more artwork

on Friday, ocher woman, $100 Million Abstract Expressionist Painting by Willem de Kooning, will go to show In the University of Arizona Museum of Art nearly four decades after it was stolen from the same building—and five years after it was mysteriously discovered in a New Mexico home owned by two Retired public school teachers. Parallel to the presentation of the new museum FBI documents Related to the 1985 robbery – carried out by a man and a woman but no one else did since whenThey’re released, revealing more insights…

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Inside the Expensive World of Hollywood Art Collectors

in thirty years Barbara Guggenheim He worked as an art advisor to Tom Cruise, and the theme was created: “It puts together very intense work, it has a lot of movement and it’s very positive, and I think that’s what it is,” Guggenheim told The Daily Beast. No kidding – over the course of his decades-long career, Cruz has cemented his reputation as one of the toughest and most powerful actors in the business. The relentless force of nature Top Gun: MaverickLeviathan’s sequel to the ’80s classic, to Ticket office…

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Florida’s super-rich are evacuating their art like Hurricane Ian Hits

More than 2.5 million coastal Florida residents have been advised to evacuate due to the threat posed by Hurricane Ian, the storm that has already left 1 million people in Cuba without power and which hit the southwest flank of the Sunshine state early Wednesday afternoon. In anticipation of Category 4 winds of 130 miles per hour, residents scrambled to pile up sandbags and stock up on supplies. For a certain group of Florida residents, also about – and in some cases needing evacuation – are their art collections, which…

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Circle billionaire art collectors as Megabucks masterpieces go to auction

It is said that the pillars of the art market are reduced to the three elements: Death, Divorce, or Religion. In these dramatic instances of turnaround, financial risk, or both, old collectors are more motivated to unload their merchandise, and when they do, the results can be astounding. In May, Sotheby’s scored a big win at the Macklowe Collection auction, a sale made possible by real estate developer Harry Macklowe’s separation from his wife linda. McCullough, who had no prenuptial agreement, had been married for nearly 60 years and their…

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Image generators like DALL-E emulate our worst biases

Momentary text-to-image generators. You may have already played with them yourself. These AI-powered robots work by turning text messages into actual images. Here’s an example of using a file DALL-E . mini robot To claim an “orange cat”: Tony Ho Tran / DALL-E mini by Craiyon.com More powerful and advanced robots like Midjourney And the DALL-E They are able to create amazing and incredibly realistic images. In fact, the former created a very beautiful “painting”, and ended up with 1st place in an art competition At the Colorado State Fair…

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Putin moves to crush Russian artists who talk about Ukraine war

Fet Kogot, a 35-year-old theater director, was pulling a cigarette while touring Moscow. He had spent most of the Ukrainian war abroad and when he returned he could not recognize his city – the artistic region whose world had been destroyed. The bombing by state sensors, including GRAD, a group of conservative and nationalist politicians named after a multiple rocket launcher, resulted in blacklisting of artists who spoke out against the massacres in Ukraine and prompted major theaters to cancel their shows by anti-Ukraine artists. War sites. The number of…

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Robert Pattinson Curtis at Sotheby’s auction of his favorite “cosmic” and “alien” art

Actor Robert Pattinson is known all over the world for many reasons: his mercenary appearance, his roles in high-profile works in such notable cinema as Good time, Batman And the The twilight Franchise And a number of high-profile romantic relationships. Pattinson isn’t necessarily known for his flair for fine art, but Sotheby’s is looking to change that with an upcoming show. Curated Contemporary Auction Their works have been selected in part by Edward Cullen himself and will take place on September 30th. Six of the eight items included in the…

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Angry artists want to find gallerist Tristan König, and make him pay

Lara Merritt, an Australian visual artist, met art dealer and gallery maker Tristan Koenig more than 20 years ago, when he was on the board of a Melbourne artist-run gallery named Bus. “He was really charming, really excited and seemed to know a lot of people,” Merritt, who brought the idea for an exhibition and installation work to the gallery, told The Daily Beast. “I’d see him at art galleries and I’d bump into him, but we didn’t cross parts again until 2018, when he approached me and said, ‘Look,…

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