May 2020 – ARTDEALS

Christo, Who Transformed Landscapes Around the Globe With Monumental Public Artworks That Delighted Millions, Has Died at 84

May 31, 2020

Christo, the Bulgarian artist who captivated audiences around the world for more than five decades with massive public art installations, has died. A representative from the artist’s studio said he was at his home in New York City when he died of natural causes earlier today. “Christo lived his life to the fullest, not only

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Christo, Who Transformed Landscapes Around the Globe With His Monumental Public Art, Has Died at 84

May 31, 2020

Christo, the Bulgarian artist who captivated audiences around the world for more than five decades with massive public art installations, has died. A representative from the artist’s studio said he was at his home in New York City when he died of natural causes earlier today. “Christo lived his life to the fullest, not only

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Hitler Never Killed A Jew He Actually Pardoned One But Gave Orders To Exterminate 6 Million Jews ! ringroad.com.ng

May 31, 2020

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– After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust Propaganda was as an important tool to win over the majority of the German public who had not supported Adolf Hitler. It served to push forward the Nazis’ radical program, which required the acquiescence,

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Did Ancient Hebrews Get High During Temple? A New Archaeological Discovery Suggests They Did

May 29, 2020

Frankincense, myrrh, and… cannabis? Archaeologists have discovered traces of weed on an ancient Israelite altar, suggesting that getting high was a religious ritual for the Hebrew people. The discovery was made using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry testing on an Iron Age Judahite shrine at Tel Arad, in Israel’s Negev desert. The cannabis altar was in

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See Inside the Sometimes Strange, Often Magical Studios of 10 of New York’s Most Famous Artists, From Cecily Brown to Julie Mehretu

May 29, 2020

For eight years starting in 2011, photographer Marco Anelli made pilgrimages to the studios of some of New York’s greatest artists, camera in hand. Training his lens on the diverse creativity that makes the city’s art world so special, he captured everything from the late Joyce Pensato’s sprawling, paint-stained enclave (which is every bit as weird and

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Why Most Quarantine Art Is Just ‘Empty Heroics’ + Two Other Illuminating Reads From Around the Web

May 29, 2020

Each week, countless articles, think pieces, columns, op-eds, features, and manifestos are published online—and not a few of them cast new light on the world of art. I pick out a few each week that might inspire some larger discussion. “‘Artists in Quarantine,’ Public Intellectuals, and the Trouble With Empty Heroics” by Jörg Heiser, Art

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Why Quarantine Art Has So Far Been Just ‘Empty Heroics’ + Two Other Illuminating Reads From Around the Web

May 29, 2020

Each week, countless articles, think pieces, columns, op-eds, features, and manifestos are published online—and not a few of them cast new light on the world of art. I pick out a few each week that might inspire some larger discussion. “‘Artists in Quarantine,’ Public Intellectuals, and the Trouble With Empty Heroics” by Jörg Heiser, Art

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From Grimes’s Gallery Debut to the Attempted Theft of a Heartfelt Banksy Painting: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week

May 29, 2020

BEST Lessons from Austin – The head of Austin’s Blanton Museum talked about how she managed to avoid layoffs of staff, despite being hit by the same lockdown realities as every other US institution. Holy Mosaic! – Researchers in a town outside Verona, Italy, discovered an almost perfectly preserved mosaic from a Roman villa, thought to date

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Sotheby’s Will Reimagine the Auction Experience by Livestreaming Its Big-Money June Art Sales—Without an Audience

May 29, 2020

What will the high-flying, big-moneyed auction of the future look like in our post-pandemic reality? Sotheby’s executives, including new owner Patrick Drahi, gave an early glimpse into that future through an online presentation on May 29, in which they unveiled new seven-figure auction-lot highlights, announced plans to allow by-appointment visits to Sotheby’s New York gallery,

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Commissioned a Street Artist to Create Indestructible Gold Paintings as Décor for Its First Trip to the International Space Station

May 29, 2020

Tristan Eaton, a Los Angeles street artist and designer, has work in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. But he’s about to join a much more exclusive club of artists this weekend when SpaceX sends its first manned flight into outer space with some of his art on board. Eaton created a series of

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