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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
21h ago“When art from the past gets new labels or new contexts, what do you think we gain, and what might quietly disappear?”
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Is modern art a genuine evolution or did someone lose the plot?: Institutional critics
The painting on a yacht In 2017, Salvator Mundi sold at Christie’s for $450.3 million. The buyer: Mohammed bin Salman. Attribution to Leonardo is disputed. Condition was poor.... Is modern art a genuine evolution or did someone lose the plot?: Traditionalists
Ten thousand hours Michelangelo dissected cadavers to understand how muscles attach to bone before painting a single figure on the Sistine ceiling. Vermeer ground his own lapis lazuli, imported from Afghanistan at a cost that strained his family into debt.... Is modern art a genuine evolution or did someone lose the plot?: The Story
The banana November 20, 2024, Sotheby’s, New York. A crypto entrepreneur named Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana duct-taped to a wall. The work, Comedian, by Maurizio Cattelan — the artist who put a gold toilet in the Guggenheim and sculpted the Pope struck by a... - kmitcham...
I'm not sure if we would fear it more or use it to control artists and writers. Unfortunately, I fear a great deal will depend on how the political environment impacts society in general....