London’s National Portrait Gallery Reopens, Actor Gérard Depardieu Is Selling His Art, and More: Morning Links for June 21, 2023
Here’s what we’re reading this morning.
June 2023
New Mexico Judge Grants and Dismisses Claims Made By Meow Wolf in Ongoing Copyright Fight
A judge in New Mexico has granted and dismissed claims made by Meow Wolf in response to an IP lawsuit.
A New Startup Is Bringing the Y Combinator Model to the Art World
In 2020, tech entrepreneur Joey Flores asked himself what an accelerator program could do for artists.
The ARTnews Guide to Minimalism
As the name suggests, Minimalism kept elaborations on form and content to a minimum.
The ARTnews Guide to Performance Art, Part 2: 1950s to the Present
The most salient development for performance art after 1950 was the sheer number of artists who embraced it.
Who Was Salvador Dalí and Why Was He So Important?
Hear the word Surrealism and Salvador Dalí will most likely spring to mind
Who Was Charmion von Wiegand and Why Is She Important?
What would she do if she could do anything, Charmion von Wiegand’s psychoanalyst asked her in 1927. “Why, paint, of course,” she answered. When he asked why she wasn’t doing that, she…
How an Installation by Architect Andrés Jaque Predicted New York’s Apocalyptic Orange Smog
The work, on view at the Venice Design Biennale, critiques the misguided effort to secure cities from the effects of climate change.
In Her Kunsthalle Basel Exhibition, Tiona Nekkia McClodden Contemplates Breathing and Mercy
“The big reveal in the show deals with my sleep apnea, which happened well into the show’s planning,” she said.