Christie’s Is Getting Into Venture Capital With a New Fund for Tech Startups Making Financial Tools for the Art Market
Having already helped launch NFT art into the mainstream with the $69 million sale of Beeple’s Everydays – The First…
With Travel Restrictions Still in Effect, More Than Half of Art Basel Hong Kong’s Dealers Are Presenting Unmanned ‘Ghost Booths’
For the second year, travel restrictions are making it difficult for gallery personnel to make the trip to Art Basel…
Don’t Miss These 7 Show-Stopping Works at TEFAF New York, From an Eight-Figure Marc Chagall to a Lusty Anh Duong Painting
The oysters came out in full force to mark the opening of TEFAF New York, the fair’s fifth event in…
24 Shows to See in Venice Beyond the Biennale, From Stanley Whitney’s Italian Paintings to a Major Survey of Marlene Dumas
Art lovers making a pilgrimage to Venice for the delayed opening of the 59th Venice Biennial will have packed dance…
Fugitive Billionaire Joseph Lau Will Auction Off Millions of Dollars in Art and Wine to Make Up for Stock Market Losses
Billionaire art collector Joseph Lau, who has been living as a fugitive in Hong Kong following his conviction in 2014 for…
In Pictures: The Best Art of Spring Break Los Angeles 2022, From a Hot Dog Rolling Machine to Personalized NFTs
Kicking off the week of art fairs in Los Angeles on Wednesday was the preview for the Spring Break Art Show,…
One of a Handful of Remaining Tiananmen Square Memorials in Hong Kong Has Been Covered Up as China Cracks Down on the City
Hong Kong University has covered up a prominent Tiananmen Square memorial in the latest sign of China’s increasingly strict control…
Wong Kar Wai Is Auctioning Off Never-Before-Seen Footage of ‘In the Mood for Love’ as an NFT at Sotheby’s Hong Kong
Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai is turning never-before-seen footage from his critically acclaimed film In The Mood For Love (2000) into…
The American Artist Chuck Close, Who Created Larger-Than-Life Photorealist Portraits, Has Died at 81
Chuck Close, whose distinctive, monumental portraits and self-portraits toyed with viewers’ perception, has died of complications from a long illness…
The Communist Party claims to have brought prosperity and equality to China. Here’s the real impact of its rule
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in full swing to prepare for the 100th anniversary of its founding this week,…
An Investigation Into Uighur Detention Camps Funded by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center Has Won a Pulitzer Prize
A project funded in part by Brooklyn’s Eyebeam Art and Technology Center has won a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. “Built to…
G7 showed that post-Trump, the world has shifted
What a difference a year makes in international diplomacy. A year ago, then-US President Donald Trump was obliged to abandon…
In photos: World commemorates 32nd anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre
Thirty-two years after the Chinese government cracked down on student protesters in Tiananmen Square, people around the world gathered to…
Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?
Chris Monroe’s vision for quantum computers is simple: He wants people to use them. Monroe, a physicist and co-founder of…
Loopholes and the ‘Anti-Realism’ of the Quantum World
The theoretical physicist John Wheeler once used the phrase “great smoky dragon” to describe a particle of light going from…