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The Art World is abubble and aghast that the upcoming Christie’s auction in New York (February 20, 2025) will offer many new paintings created by artificial intelligence (AI). TheTimes of London reports that Christie’s has been “flooded with fury” from artists who are not being represented in the auction. Several have threatened to start a […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t The world-famous Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rjin painted few landscapes. For many years this Landscape with Arched Bridge was long attributed to him because of its brownish color scheme. But no one knew for sure because he didn’t sign it. Now a team of experts have studied the problem and decided, Yep, it’s Rembrandt all […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t Dan Howland disappeared from San Diego sometime in the late 90s and reappeared in Portland, OR, where he is said to have authored an amusement-ride quarterly journal. This classic is reproduced as it originally appeared in Gallery News in 1994…as it is an image and we are not about to type it in. A friend […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t Pearl Paint on Canal Street in NYC was the artists’ Mecca for eighty years, with its assemblage of tumbledown warehouses and 1820s townhouses, selling every sort of paint and brush and picture album and canvas-stretching doodad in the Known World. When it closed in 2014, people were \u00a0left bereft. Where now to buy your non-repro […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t In the never-ending search for some socially redeeming purpose in “art”\u2014I don’t mean actual creations in sculpture, portraiture, illustration, music, etc.; but layabout-supporting grants and foundations\u2014someone in England has decided the art thing might be good for dementia. From Museum Next: In recent years, museums have trialled [sic] and tested a broad range of initiatives […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t Sotheby’s sales for 2021 surpass $7.3bn, the highest total in company history, reports theartnewspaper.com. Proving once again that Art is Bigger Than Ever! In part, the eBay syndrome seems to be at work: people will gladly bid twice as much online for a piece they’d scarcely look at in real life. Nevertheless, only a piddling […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t From The Art Newspaper: Rembrandt\u2019s preliminary sketch for The Night Watch (1642) has been discovered beneath the surface of the paint, using the latest scientific techniques. Conservators at the Rijksmuseum have also determined the worrying extent of a rippling deformation of the canvas, which was caused when the picture was moved during building work in […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t In Qatar, of all places. “The exhibition title is borrowed from a 1985 American satirical comedy film of the same name directed by Albert Brooks, about a 1980s yuppie couple in Los Angeles who are disgruntled by their bourgeois lifestyle. Koons wants viewers to draw their own interpretations of that title, as well as the […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t Ever since they removed the British Library from the British Museum, the Museum’s two biggest attractions\u00a0are\u00a0the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles. Maybe\u00a0the Stone and Marbles have always been the biggest attractions these past hundred, two hundred, whatever years. I mean apart from traveling exhibitions of King Tut’s\u00a0knickknacks\u00a0and terra-cotta Chinese soldiers, and such like. Though […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t Sotheby’s, the auction house formerly known as Sotheby Parke Bernet, and before that as Sotheby’s, is testing out art sales with cryptocurrency. Just to see how it goes, they’re starting off with some Banksy crap. Bitcoin and Ethereum seem to be the Coins of the Realm at the moment, but no doubt Dogecoin and Monero […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t A list of the 101 most important painters of the history of Western Painting, from 13th century to 21st century by theartwolf.com Although this list stems from a deep study of the painters, their contribution to Western painting, and their influence on later artists; we are aware that objectivity does not exist in Art, so […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t In my life I think I’ve enjoyed exactly two exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, and both were traveling shows for Grant Wood. Otherwise the Whitney was enjoyable mainly for its Permanent Collection, full of\u00a0familiar figurative paintings by the likes of George Tooker and\u00a0Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton. Also one or two Gerald Murphy collages, […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t Famous gay painter and pastel illustrator David Hockney has some medical news for us all. Of course we already knew that cigarette smoking prevented Alzheimer’s Disease. But this is the first time an important artist has weighed in on the COVID-19 nonsense and how coffin nails may help! From the New York Post:<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\nChristie’s Art Auction to Offer Exciting AI Modernity<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Rembrandt Landscape Was Actually Painted by Rembrandt<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
The Button-Down Mind of DAN HOWLAND (1994)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Why They Closed All the Art Supply Shoppes<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Museums for the Demented<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Sotheby’s Scores Another Record Year<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Night Watch<\/i> Sketch Discovered in Holland<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Jeff Koons: Lost in America<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Why London Should Keep the Elgin Marbles (and Why You Should Care)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Sotheby’s Tests Out Crypto Sales<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
This Is Every Bill Tidy Cartoon<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Random Art Article #1<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
The Whitney Is a Dawg. So Is Hudson Yards.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
Smoking Prevents COVID-19, says David Hockney<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t