By Ian Youngs Entertainment & arts reporter 5 December 2023, 19:52 GMT Updated 7 minutes ago Image caption, Jesse Darling has given crowd control barriers legs and made them look like they are running amok An exhibition featuring crowd control barriers that have gone out of control, twisted railway tracks, barbed wire and tattered union
Gallerists, collectors, fair directors and designers on collectible design’s role in the wider industry; and why the pieces’ often-eyewatering price tags are justified. Across international fairs such as this week’s Design Miami, London’s PAD and Collect, or TEFAF Maastricht; gallerists present works of collectible design from artists all over the world, mixing vintage collectible works
In early September, Seoul crackled with energy. The sophomore installment of Frieze Seoul had just opened, and the presence of the K-pop stars RM of the band BTS and Jisoo of Blackpink had caused a stir. Across town, more than a hundred artists and fans watched a multimedia presentation of dance, music, film and theater
During her decades in the gallery business, Luisa Strina has earned a reputation for both her keen eye — and her clear opinions — about contemporary art. She knows what she likes and the type of art that sells under her brand, she said, and does not waste words appeasing the egos of artists or
Since the birth of Art Basel Miami Beach in 2002, Miami has prospered as a contemporary-art center, with museums and foundations opening or reopening in spacious new premises (the Pérez Art Museum Miami; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Rubell Museum Miami), and galleries proliferating in the art and design districts. How are the
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Brightline, the only private intercity passenger railroad in the country, is getting a $3 billion federal grant to help build a $12 billion high-speed railway between Las Vegas and Southern California — an almost unheard of infusion of federal money for a private project that
Mia Rodriguez was 7 when she first went to Art Basel Miami Beach. And she has gone almost every year since. Her parents walked her through the exhibits at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Teachers took her there on field trips. “It was so influential,” she said over the phone from Tufts University just outside
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — “ACCESS EXCESS,” an exhibition of installation works by Baltimore-based artist Amy Boone-McCreesh, is on view in the HUB Gallery at Penn State’s University Park campus until March 1, 2024. Working in sculpture, collage and mixed media, Boone-McCreesh presents a maximalist take on the idea of luxury and access. Her colorful works critique
The Prebys Foundation on Tuesday, Dec. 5, announced the award of 147 grants totaling $30.6 million to organizations in San Diego County in four program areas: visual and performing arts, youth success, healthcare and medical research. About half of the grantees are first-time recipients of Prebys Foundation grants. “When we announced the foundation’s strategic plan
Picture, if you will, Marketplace’s senior economics contributor Chris Farrell under Bluetooth headphones. He’s scowling at accounts of policymakers complaining how aging demographics might hurt America’s creativity and innovation — even as he listens to a rich playlist of music created by artists are that not in their teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s or even