What exactly does it mean to collect art in uncertain times? The members of the 2024 ARTnews Top 200 list are reacting to the state of today’s uncertain art market.
“As an art enthusiast and a collector who loves art, I read and study a lot hoping to grow special insights and better discerning eyes,” RM from
@bts_bighit
told ARTnews.
RM, the 27-year-old leader of BTS, released a new YouTube video and several Instagram posts showcasing his recent art-related travels and apparent growing art collection to fans.
"As one of many art enthusiasts, I just want to visit great exhibitions when I get a chance and share with people so they can enjoy them as well," RM of BTS told ARTnews about the growing role of art in his life.
RM, the leader of the pop group BTS, was recognized by a South Korean agency for his overseas efforts to help preserve and restore Korean cultural artifacts.
RM, the leader of Korean pop group BTS and an avid art collector and patron, released a 12-minute concert film Thursday taped at Dia Beacon, a contemporary art museum in upstate New York.
"Responsibility comes first in public occasions. To purely enjoy the art, I would make a personal visit. I feel happiest when I’m at an art exhibition as an individual," RM of BTS told ARTnews.
Having faced a pandemic and ongoing pro-democracy protests, Hong Kong artists are remaining vigilant, using art to make sense of their past and project their future
K-Pop star Eric Nam and Indian American singer-songwriter Raveena will headline a performance at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art on May 13 as part of the institution’s two-week festival marking its centennial.
The K-pop sensation BTS is extending its reach in the art world with CONNECT, BTS, a new contemporary art initiative that will span five international hubs on four continents
Andrei Taraschuk has created more than 500 accounts that he has labeled "art bots," which are intended to bring beautiful works from years past to your timeline. Some now have tens of thousands of followers
Christo, whose sculptures involving the wrapping of sites and structures in hundreds of thousands of square feet of brilliantly colored fabric, has died at 84
LACMA has acquired 22 NFTs of generative artworks, all donated by the mysterious and prolific NFT collector who goes by the pseudonym Cozomo de’ Medici, the museum announced Monday.
Frank Stella, an artist who brought abstraction into brave new directions, defining an era with his black paintings of the 1950s, died on Saturday at 87.
Staffers at the Baltimore Museum of Art voted 89-to-29 Thursday night to unionize amid an industry-wide movement to secure higher wages and better working conditions.
The Guggenheim Museum has said its Hilma af Klint retrospective received more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most popular show in the institution's history
University of Oxford and and University of Cambridge have agreed to return hundreds of Benin Bronzes, opening the possibility of the largest repatriation of looted artifacts from the United Kingdom to date.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is calling its Vermeer exhibition “the most successful in its history,” with 650,000 visitors from 113 countries during its 16-week run.
Bill Viola, whose decades-long engagement with video proved vital in establishing the medium as an integral part of contemporary art, died on July 12 at his home in Long Beach, California.
Employees of the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, staged a walkout today in protest of a new internal dress code banning keffiyehs, which they deemed “distinctly anti-Palestinian.”
After his Surrealist phase, the later work of Salvador Dali, who was born today in 1904, once dismissed by scholars as banal kitsch, is now being celebrated for being so ahead of its time it looks as though it could have been made yesterday.
Kimberly Drew, whose closely watched projects have spanned the worlds of museums, fashion magazines, and activism, has joined Pace Gallery as an associate director
The world of Henri Matisse, who was born today in 1869, is one of pleasures: Ripe fruit, luxurious fabrics, comely women, a window with a view of an ultramarine sea.
On this day in 1910, Dorothea Tanning was born. In 2001, the then 91-year-old painter talked with ARTnews about her life, career, and her thoughts on the art world.
A gripping new documentary due to air on HBO focuses on the importance of Black art, with interviews by David C. Driskell, Jordan Casteel, Kerry James Marshall, and more
BTS's RM visited the National Gallery of Art, Metro Pictures has closed, the National Museum of Afghanistan has reopened, and more in today's Morning Links.
Claude Monet's paintings boldly broke with realism, rendering nature in rich colors. Though he initially struggled as an artist, he was widely praised by the end of his career
Doreen St. Félix and Nikki Giovanni, two well-regarded writers, said on Friday that they would no longer take part in a talk at the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow, criticizing the institution for its stance on Palestine.
In his collages, Keith Haring, born today in 1958, “set the stage” for him to develop the iconic pictograms—barking dogs, intertwined male bodies, and dancing people—for which he is known today.
The Picasso Museum in Paris will now include a gallery dedicated to the work of Françoise Gilot, highlighting how the late artist was much more than Picasso’s former partner.
"This ranks among the best collections of illuminated manuscripts in private hands at the moment to be offered at auction in the last 50 years," said one expert
An intricate 3-D Lego set based on the Dutch master’s painting has just crossed the 10,000-vote threshold on the toy company’s “Ideas” platform, meaning it’s garnered enough support to get approved for production (via
@RobbReport
)
A colossal statue of Constantine the Great in Rome has regained a finger. Missing for years, the finger was found by a doctoral student in the Louvre's collection, where it was misclassified
"To me, feeling vulnerable is something that everybody understand," artist Derek Fordjour said. "Maybe I don’t know what it’s like to be you, or you don’t know what it’s like to be me—but we certainly know what it feels like to be vulnerable."
A new study explains why you don’t see people hawking ugly cartoon apes on the internet as much anymore: NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, once vaunted as a revolution in crypto and digital art, are largely worthless.
Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi, a global popstar known for hits like Skin Tight,’ ‘Bankulize,’ and ‘Leg Over,’ is collaborating with top African visual artists for his upcoming debut album.
The Picasso Museum in Paris will now include a gallery dedicated to the work of Françoise Gilot, highlighting how the late artist was much more than Picasso’s former partner.
France released the official posters on Tuesday for the upcoming 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris this summer, and conservatives and right-wingers in the country are not happy.
The work of Vincent van Gogh, who was born today in 1853, continues to draw crowds from around the world. In 2020, we asked eight van Gogh experts what were their favorite paintings by him.
If Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Warrior' sells for within its estimate of $31 million–$41 million, it will become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever auctioned
Was Salvador Dalí really as irrational as his paintings often made him out to be? Several previously unpublished drawings "reveal Dalí as a meticulous artist," art historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts claims
For many, the transcendent abstractions of fields of intermingling colors in the works of Mark Rothko, who was born on this day in 1903, often conjure semi-religious states and lofty ideas about death and passing on.