From Damien Hirst's Plan To Torch His Own Artwork To A $6,200 Mcdonald's Pickle: The Best And Worst Of The Art World This Week
Date
7/29/2022 11:02:37 PM
(MENAFN- USA Art News)
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The Colosseum Gets a Valuation – If you thought the ancient arena was priceless, think again: a team of experts just valued it at a cool $79 billion .
What Exactly Is the Metaverse? – On this week's podcast episode, Tim Schneider falls down the rabbit hole with three experts to contemplate our potential (digital) future .
Han Shot First, But You Can Shoot Last – The revered“blaster” gun wielded by Harrison Ford in the original film is hitting the auction block .
Baltimore Curators Decamp – Curator Katy Siegel is following her colleague Christopher Bedford to SFMoMA .
Iraqi Court Overturns Tourist's Conviction – The British tourist was initially sentenced to 15 years for allegedly stealing ancient pottery shards .
New Mexico Museum Returns Artifacts – An Albuquerque foundation has returned a dozen ancient artifacts languishing in a storage box to Mexico .
Seattle Chapter Ditches the Tainted Audubon Name – The Washington-based chapter of the National Audubon Society made the move as part of a nation-wide reckoning with racial injustice and toxic legacies.
Damien Hirst Is Burning Up – The YBA artist is set to burn all of the physical drawings that buyers trade in for NFTs in the culmination of his year-long project“The Currency.”
WORST👎 Artist Jennifer Bartlett Dies at 81 – The beloved artist, who fused aspects of Minimalism, Pop, and Abstract Expressionism in her painted steel plate installations , died in Long Island.
French Authorities Detain Louvre Curator – As part of a crackdown on international art-trafficking , two archaeologists including a curator were taken into custody.
Documenta Controversy Continues – Following the uproar over antisemitic images discovered last month in a sprawling installation, more offensive imagery has surfaced .
Law Firm Seeks Participants in Suit Against BAYC – The firm is aiming to prove that Bored Apes courted celebrities to lure unsuspecting investors into the scheme promising major returns.
This Pickle Costs $6,200 – An Australian artist threw a pickle from his McDonald's cheeseburger onto a gallery's ceiling , and slapped a $6,200 pricetag on it.
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