Jane McAdam Freud, the daughter of the late portrait artist Lucian Freud, and great-granddaughter of psychologist Sigmund Freud, talks to Crane.tv about her life and art. Her current exhibition, Family Matters, focuses on the concept of family which has helped mould her as an artist, and...
SMELLS LIKE MACBOO...
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Apparently, Apple products emit a certain smell once you open them, and Air Aroma have turned it into a fragrance. The scent (a combination of glue, plastic, rubber and paper) is a collaboration with Greatest Hits, a team of artists based in Melbourne, Australia, and was made especially for...
NICK HORNBY: ARTIS...
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Nick Hornby is an award-winning British sculptor living and working in London. He has exhibited all over the world, including at the Tate Britain, Eyebeam in New York, and The Hub in Athens. His work has been featured in Dazed and Confused, Wired, Conde Nast Traveler, and he was...
WHERE ART MEETS GO...
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Anyone with an internet connection can experience visiting art galleries and museums all over the world via the Google Art Project. WSJ‘s Deborah Kan and Life & Style Editor Lara Day report. (Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Art Project) Log on to...
ARTSPACE.COM: BUYI...
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Is buying fine art online the wave of the future? Artspace‘s Catherine Levene and Christopher Vroom talk about their e-commerce space for contemporary art that brings together artwork from all over the world, onto one platform, making it available for sale at accessible prices. Log...
DAMIEN HIRST INTER...
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As a major retrospective of Damien Hirst‘s work is on exhibit at the Tate Modern in London, the artist talks to CNN‘s Monita Rajpal about money, how he has changed, his work and what it says about him. Damien Hirst Tate Modern Retrospective is on show from 4 April – 9 September....
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Located between Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts and Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao, the Hotel Miró is a design statement, inside and out. The façade creates a light-box effect at night, and fashion designer Antonio Miró has brought his signature minimal style to the interiors. An...
TOP HOTELS: PERISC...
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Above Kolonaki, Athens‘ shopping and restaurant district, the Persicope is an intimate urban hub created by industrialist and contemporary art connoisseur Dakis Joannou. Interactive art installations merge the guest into the concept of art imitating life, tracking your journey around...
ART: AN ASSET CLAS...
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Citi Private Bank is now producing analyst reports on artists as it does for stocks. Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon and Citi Private Bank Art Advisor Jonathan Binstock debate whether artists should be treated like stocks, and how this will affect the art world. THE PULSE is produced by...
BRIAN ERMANSKI: AR...
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The bad boy of the contemporary US art scene, Brian Ermanski tells how he has come from sleeping on the streets to exhibiting at Art Basel and selling work for up to $10,000. Video courtesy of Crane.tv THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The Creative...
AI WEIWEI: WSJ 201...
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WSJ 2011 INNOVATOR AWARDS: ART Art. Architecture. Design. Food. Fashion. Technology. Philanthropy. These distinct, yet interwoven fields are united by innovation. In the first annual Innovator of the Year awards, the Wall Street Journal used these seven categories to find the most creative,...
HOW TO INVEST IN C...
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Looking for alternative ways to invest? Collecting contemporary art is not as intimidating as you might think, and the appreciation value has consistently proven sustainable. Condé Nast Traveler‘s Kate Maxwell takes you to the hottest galleries in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and...