Category: Art
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Art Basel Miami: how this year’s fair aims to increase diversity
This year’s highly attended artfair will focus on more work from artists of colour as well as a range of impassioned protest art
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Auction history was made throughout November and around the globe
In November, Sotheby’s concluded a month of worldwide sales spanning New York, Geneva, London, Paris and online, with 1,675 lots sold over twelve auctions for a total of more than $1 billion. Across the auctions, nineteen lots exceeded $10 million and ten lots exceeded $20 million. From 20th- and 21st-century art to magnificent jewels…
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Exclusive collaborations: Virgil Abloh for Moët & Chandon, Laolu Senbanjo for Belvedere
Partnerships that meld contemporary lifestyle and authentic heritage. Virgil Abloh for Moët & Chandon: Moët & Chandon Nectar Impérial Rosé. Champagne Maison Moët & Chandon unveiled the exclusive collaboration with Virgil Abloh. Virgil Abloh, who became artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear in spring 2018, has signed his first collaboration with a Wines & Spirits…
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‘These aren’t extinct cultures’ – indigenous art gets a stage at the Met
In two exhibitions in New York, Native Americans are given a spotlight both with their artwork and the inaccurate ways they’ve been portrayed by others
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Special Edition Speakers by Bang & Olufsen. Artwork by David Lynch
Bang & Olufsen and director, screenwriter, actor, artist, and musician David Lynch previously teamed up in 2017 to create a limited edition of Beoplay A9 speakers featuring the artist’s famed “Paris Suite” lithographs. All 30 speakers were personally signed and numbered by Lynch and were available exclusively through the MoMA Design Store. Last month,…
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Tristram Hunt: ‘In the era of fake news, museums allow a better understanding of truth and history’
The director of the V&A on the institution’s expansion into east London, the antisemitism row in the Labour party, and the changing role of museums