February 8, 2025
Art Investment

Invest in Artwork with No Minimum

Masterworks 0 USD Strengths No minimum to open $20 per share Access to a hard to reach asset class Weaknesses Illiquid investment No cash flow 1% management fee, 20% commission on sale If your investment portfolio is filled with “paper assets” – stocks, bonds, funds, etc. – have you considered adding alternative assets to the

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Visual artists

Talking With Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam About His First Visual Arts Exhibition

Sam Beam, Recent Visual Works | Through Sunday, Jan. 28 |  Peel Gallery, Carrboro Last week, Sam Beam found himself in an unfamiliar though not entirely unexpected position: holding court at his own art opening. Best known as the singer-songwriter behind Iron & Wine, Beam, who lives in Durham, spent much of his life pursuing

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European Art

the mysterious master of the surreal – European CEO

Moralistic depictions of debauchery and temptation are enduring themes in Bosch’s work It’s 500 years on and we’re still no closer to understanding the personal circumstances that inspired Hieronymus Bosch’s often-macabre visualisations of the strange, the biblical and the mundane. As few as 20 paintings and eight drawings of Bosch’s oeuvre remain today, and even

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European Art

Prestigious Rome hotel welcomes guests to its over 1,000 piece private art collection

A luxury five-stare hotel in Rome, boasting a collection of over 1000 extraordinary artworks, is now welcoming visitors with guided tours. ADVERTISEMENT The Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria, hailed as Rome’s most prestigious hotel and a favoured choice among celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney, is now, for the first time, opening its doors to guided

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Artists

Apple will pay artists more to have a spatial audio version on Apple Music

Image Credits: TechCrunch Apple will pay additional royalties starting this month to artists if they have a spatial audio version on Apple Music, according to multiple reports. The company will pay up to 10% additional royalty if an artist has all their songs in spatial audio, per a report by 9to5Mac. The extra money doesn’t

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Artists

How Infinity Song Redefines Black Artists in Soft Rock With ‘Hater’s Anthem’ | News

Black Gen-Z youth are more musically agnostic than ever. They aren’t trapped enjoying or creating art in music genres considered “Urban.” There isn’t a better example than the rise of popular Black artists in contemporary rock stateside. Rock music may have once historically marginalized the ethnicities that originated the genre. In recent times, contemporary artists

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Artists

Palestinian artists on their performance piece Losing It – playing in Hong Kong – and how living in a war zone affects one’s senses and identity

Turning this vulnerability into artistic expression, two Palestinian artists have co-created Losing It, a performance art piece to be shown in Hong Kong on February 27 and 28 as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival’s “Arab Arts Focus” series. Samar Haddad King is a live musician and soundscape artist with Palestinian heritage, and the

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Artists

Leading Land Art Work by Mary Miss Is Imperiled by Its Patron

The American land artist and designer Mary Miss was traveling in Europe in October when she received the kind of news that no one in her line of work wants to hear. One of her most significant artworks, owned by an Iowa museum, would need to be closed to the public because it had fallen

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Visual artists

Visual artist Antonia Ruppert showcase come to Austin library

A North Austin Branch Library exhibition with artwork inspired by a series of roundtable discussions on how the community changed over time will open this month.   Titled “Voices of North Austin: Changes Over Time,” the exhibition, featuring the work of visual artist Antonia Ruppert, was two years in the making. “I have to thank Arystine

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Artists

How To Keep Artists And Songs In Your Mind For Long Periods Of Time

In today’s world of over-stimulation and music saturation, we need to activate our long-term memory Photo by Soundtrap on Unsplash The music ecosystem is more saturated than ever. With music streaming sites like Spotify, Apple, Tidal, and Amazon Music hitting us with 100,000 new songs daily, it’s impossible to keep up with the noise. Thanks

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