The New York Public Design Committee voted on April 10th to allow a sculpture called ‘Fearless Girl’ to remain by the steps of the New York Stock Exchange. The statue first showed up before International Women’s day in 2017 and was placed across from the Charging Bull statue, but was Read more…
Artist Yves Klein was kind of like the inventor of the NFT. He would always convince people that his pieces were art even though they were often blank walls or paintings that had no paint on them. He was able to convince 9 people to buy what he called an Read more…
I wanted to bring up artist Damien Hirst because he is the richest artist in the world with a net worth of over $300 million and has some high brow art that reminds me of DADA. Kind of like the readymades of Duchamp, Hirst takes things from nature and turns Read more…
Recently art museums have gone broke because the pandemic has stopped in person viewing from occurring. Though going to museums has picked up, there is still a need for money to fund many of these places. A solution that some London based artists have designed is to make NFT’s out Read more…
Artwork from Libya and across the Middle East was looted in the 1980’s causing an influx of stolen artwork across the world. I just learned about this recently because of 2 busts that were given back to the country of Libya that the Manhattan DA found to be stolen during Read more…