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Who did this. Yet another amateur art restorer in Spain has absolutely demolished a once-beautiful artwork:
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New in NYC: A cube made from $11.7 million worth of solid gold is sitting in Central Park—and has its own security detail:
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Spain has been hit by yet another bungling restorer, who turned this Virgin Mary painting into an unrecognizable blob:
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Introducing the 2022 Artnet Innovators List: 35 game-changers, dreamers, and mavericks transforming the art industry:
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The internet killed the yellow pages. Netflix killed Blockbuster. Will NFTs kill traditional art?. Greetings, my name is @CozomoMedici. What I'm about to share with you may make you angry. You may disagree. But it's crucial you here it. So buckle up, and let's begin👇.
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Italy can evict Steve Bannon's school for far-right 'gladiators' from an 800-year-old monastery, the country's top court rules:
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How K-pop star and budding mega-collector RM wove his favorite art and artists into his first solo album, "Indigo":
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What does K-Pop star RM collect? Here are 8 artists the burgeoning celebrity patron has snapped up:
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John Waters has pledged to donate his art collection to the Baltimore Museum once he dies—so long as it names its bathrooms after him:
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The Actor Who Played Robocop Is Now an Art Historian, and He’s Returning to Detroit With a New Mission: Renaissance Art
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1/ I am here to let you know that, over the next decade, art might actually save the world. Our world is becoming progressively digital. It is critically important that this world, the coming metaverse, is open and free and interoperable. And art might get us there.
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Tomás Saraceno just earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records—many times over.
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Check out K-Pop sensation BTS's heartfelt contribution to Hans Ulrich Obrist's epic 30-year art project:
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The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is finally commercially available. Here's why it already has a loyal following:
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1,500 arts workers protest China's proposed Hong Kong National Security Law, claiming it will do 'incalculable' damage to culture in the city.
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China is tightening its grip on Hong Kong, stoking fears of censorship and financial trouble for the art scene.
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Forty-two Dutch institutions have found 170 works of art that they suspect may have been stolen or confiscated under duress during the Nazi era—and they're starting the process of returning them to their rightful homes.
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A 25-year-old PhD student just convinced Lego to mass-produce Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' as an official toy kit:
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News that the government is preparing to pass a law that would allow Chinese agencies to criminalize acts deemed threatening to China’s national security has sent shockwaves through Hong Kong:
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This week, our podcast features a personal account from a native Hong Konger watching her city reckon with its future.
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What do the protests in Hong Kong mean for art?. Find out in our latest podcast episode:
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My name is @Vince_Van_Dough. I am a collector and artist who grew up on the internet. Most things that people my age have collected in our lifetimes have been digital, art included. I will be sharing some of my favorite pieces with you today. To start…. Tri-World by @Sahred_toy
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What do the protests in Hong Kong mean for art?. Find out in our latest podcast episode:
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How an old postcard led art historians to the spot where a distraught Van Gogh made his final painting:
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Michelangelo Meets Michelangelo: the Famed Ninja Turtle Visits the Renaissance Blockbuster at the Met:
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Artist JR has symbolically 'reopened' a shuttered Florence museum with a photocollage of its interior on the facade:
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The Louvre just put over 75 percent of its collection online in a new database, so you can browse its treasures from the comfort of your home:
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London unveils its first public monument celebrating the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants to the U.K.:
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Check out K-Pop sensation BTS's heartfelt contribution to Hans Ulrich Obrist's epic 30-year art project:
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22/ We are the market makers now. We create our own museums. We decide which art defines this generation. We are the digital renaissance. And we are just getting started.
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24/ And follow me @CozomoMedici, for more on:. - The NFT revolution and who is leading it.- How traditional art and NFTs will intersect, and prosper.- What makes certain NFTs stand out and hold value. Grazie mille to @artnet for letting us explore art's future together!🍷⚔️~CdM.
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China is tightening its grip on Hong Kong, stoking fears of censorship and financial trouble for the art scene.
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14/ YOU can decide which artists will define this generation. YOU can access their art before they get big . YOU can make them big, by voting with your wallets. By showing them in your own galleries. .
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A painting by the rapper Skepta just sold for nearly $100,000 in a Sotheby's sale he helped curate:
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The Louvre just put over 75 percent of its collection online in a new database, so you can browse its treasures from the comfort of your home:
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A 25-year-old PhD student just convinced Lego to mass-produce Van Gogh's Starry Night' as an official toy kit:
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For the first time, Basquiat’s family will organize a show of rarely seen works by the artist from their personal collection:
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Director and artist Robert Wilson is auctioning off his first-ever NFT: A video portrait of Lady Gaga:
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Under the shadow of China's new security law, a new generation of Hong Kong artists is learning to make art in code:
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10/ But around 2018, a new paradigm began. In NFT, there are no museums. No galleries, other than the marketplaces, and the galleries made by collectors themselves. And thanks to tools like @oncyber_io, anyone can create a stunning metaverse gallery in about 15 minutes.
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A French museum puts its Genghis Khan exhibition on hold after China pressures it to rewrite the history of Mongol culture:
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Pop Art visionary Marisol was all but forgotten. Now, a new exhibition places her on equal footing with her pal Andy Warhol:
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1/ In the last decade, we saw a great shift in entertainment. For almost 100 years, the studios decided which actors would be lucky or talented enough to become stars. But then in the 2000's, everything changed.
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A skull painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $93.1 million (with premium) in New York today, making it the second-highest price paid for a work by the artist ever sold at auction:
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hi everyone 👋 this is @andrwwang! i'll be taking over artnet's twitter for the next few hours to talk about everything NFTs and web3. i promise to make the most of this opportunity to bring NFTs and the traditional art world together, because there is room for all of us here 😊.
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In his first interview in years, K-Pop star Choi Seung-hyun offers exclusive insight into his journey to art collecting—and his big ambitions:
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The mayor of Washington, DC, just ordered a 35-foot-wide Black Lives Matter mural to be painted behind the White House:
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Artist JR has symbolically 'reopened' a shuttered Florence museum with a photocollage of its interior on the facade:
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23/ Click below and retweet the first tweet in this thread, to spread the word to aspiring young artists that THEY have the power now:.
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A new book reveals Vincent van Gogh and his little sister’s powerfully moving correspondence about their struggles with mental health:
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Scientists uncovered a cartoonish, 2,000-year-old cat figure etched into the earth among Peru's Nazca Lines:
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France is giving young people €300 to spend on the arts after a trial run found the Culture Pass program a success:
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Here’s our guide to every single one of the nearly 50 immersive Van Gogh experiences blanketing the U.S., and what makes each unique:
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16/ So while just a few years ago, a talented artist in a remote village could perhaps have their highest aspiration to be the most noted artist in that village. This same artist can now build a global following, and international community around their work.
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This Jackson Pollock painting could become one of the priciest works by the artist ever sold at auction:
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A Vincent van Gogh never before seen in public could fetch nearly $10 million at auction next month:
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The Yayoi Kusama craze is coming to Europe with a splashy—but nuanced—three-venue retrospective.
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6/ Again, for better, or for worse :). And now, in this decade, we are seeing a similarly sized shift beginning to happen in the art world. For hundreds of years, kings, queens, and noble folk decided which art was relevant. Those works they chose live on in importance today.
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The biggest show on artist Tove Jansson, who created the beloved fairy-tale character Moomin, is opening in Paris.
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Takeaways from the Artnet Intelligence Report's profile of T.O.P, the K-Pop star and collector's first interview in years:
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2/ The cameras turned from focusing on actors, to every day people. With Reality TV, soon it wasn’t a trained actor who was getting famous, but your classmate, co-worker, or next door neighbor. For the first time, anyone could become a star. For better or for worse!. But then,.
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19-year-old NFT phenom @fewocious has a $26 million market, and other must-read stories from the art world this week:
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From Bernie Sanders memes to Art Basel's postponement, catch up on this week's art world news:
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some of my personal favorite NFT projects ✨.- @coolcatsnft 🐱.- @Ghxsts 💫.- @doodles 🌈.- @creatureNFT 🌝.- @VinnieHager's letters 💌.- @justinaversano's twin flames 🔥.- @DrifterShoots's where my vans go 👟.
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3/ 2010. Instagram. YouTube. Podcasting. Social media goes mainstream. As people turned the cameras and microphones on themselves, the studios became powerless.
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France has approved the return of 27 artworks to Benin and Senegal, signaling what may be a new era for restitution:
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18/ Well look at @justinaversano and his Twin Flames series, which regularly sell for over $1m USD a photo, and have been featured in auctions at both Christie's & Sotheby's.
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20/ The game has already changed. And whether you knew the old game or not, makes no difference. Because soon, it may not be here any more.
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8/ By the time the public learns about Warhol or Basqiat, their work has become expensive, the best pieces gobbled up by known collectors and market makers. The general public left only with less desired works, prints and editions. unless of course they paid up handsomely.
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A Vincent van Gogh never before seen in public could fetch nearly $10 million at auction next month:
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These photographs of the Parthenon covered by a rare snowstorm like a magical ancient wedding cake are going viral:
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21/ Just as in the last decade, when the social media masters seized the star-making power from the studios. NFT is seizing power from the institutions.
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Archaeologists just discovered tens of thousands of ultra-realistic ancient rock paintings in the Colombian Amazon:
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Why Are Artists Poor? New Research Suggests It Could Be Hardwired Into Their Brain Chemistry
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9/ And this is not just in the major markets - London, Paris, NYC - but globally. I was recently chatting with a man who grew up in Morocco. As he described it, in Morocco there are 5 dealers who make up the "art mafia". If an artist gets on the bad side of one, they are done.
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12/ But you’ll also see artists like @larvalabs snapping up multi-million dollar sales with no museums, no galleries, and no market makers in between you and the art. Not to mention the million-dollar plus sales that take place on @opensea, every single day.
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Whoops! A clumsy art fair visitor shattered a $42,000 Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculpture in Miami:
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Marina Abramović has partnered with WeTransfer to teach people her mindfulness method while they wait for files to upload:
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In a mesmerizing new art project, digital artist Ruud van Empel has created lifelike photographs of Vincent van Gogh:
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A Palestinian farmer planting an olive tree accidentally unearthed an exquisite Byzantine tile floor:
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11/ Sure, there is the "stamp of approval" when an artist is approved to a top platform, such as @SuperRare, @AsyncArt @withFND @rarible or @niftygateway. .
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A Scottish university will repatriate a Benin Bronze in its museum collection to Nigeria, becoming the first Western institution to fully repatriate a Benin Bronze:
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In a 'historic milestone,' Germany will begin to return the Benin Bronzes from its public collections to Nigeria in 2022:
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5/ Brands rushed in to make deals with this new batch of stars, further cementing their standing as the "it" folks of our generation. And before we knew it, 75% of kids want to be social stars when they grow up!
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