Tag: Art market
A new platform lets you buy shares of blue-chip paintings –...
Kathryn Graddy, Brandeis University
In the fall of 2018, a Banksy work, “Love is in the Bin,” sold for...
We’re just beginning to grasp the toll of the Islamic State’s...
Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia; James Marrone, Johns Hopkins University; Oya Topçuoğlu, Northwestern University, and Tasha Vorderstrasse, University of Chicago
The Islamic State surrendered its...
Banksy and the tradition of destroying art
Preminda Jacob, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
When the British street artist Banksy shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it was purchased for US$1.4 million...
Meet AICAN, a machine that operates as an autonomous artist
Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
When artificial intelligence has been used to create works of art, a human artist has always exerted a significant element of...
Andrew Wyeth and the artist’s fragile reputation
Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University
I vividly recall my first encounter with Andrew Wyeth’s art when I was 14 years old, in the dingy...