"The European Union's intellectual property office just reinforced last month's invalidation of a trademark owned by the British street artist Banksy. The latest rulings issued from the office's 'cancellation department' this morning relate to two of the anonymous artist's most famous images, Radar Rat and Girl with an Umbrella. The judgment was made in favor of Full Colour Black,...
Of the 218 skyscrapers constructed on the continent to date, 66% of them are located in just five cities – London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow and Istanbul. - B1M
The artist proceeded to rank the women “from the prettiest to the ugliest,” stringing together around 5,000 grainy clips into a nearly eight-hour-long video with numbers at the bottom of each image to indicate the woman’s ranking. - The New York Times
We want to mark important events and people. But which ones? And who should decide? And are we creating an unreconcileable hierarchy of what's important (and what's not). - Aisle Say
They have realized how useful art has become as a tool for money launderers, and are considering boosting oversight of the market and making it more transparent. - The New York Times
Part of the recent surge comes down to Brexit jitters. Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, industry players speculated that Paris would benefit where London lost. - ARTnews
"Initially slated to debut in 2020, the museum in Oslo — officially called the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design — will now open on June 11, 2022. The , which has been in the works for seven years, brings the collections of three of Norway's most important art institutions — the former Kunstindustrimuseet, the Museum of Contemporary...
"We have art for the eyes and music for the ears, but what about about creative stimuli for our sense of smell? A new show at Phillips auction house in Paris is addressing this question through a new show of olfactory sculptures by six artists, including Joana Vasconcelos and Adel Abdessemed, which incorporate uniquely created fragrances by perfumers." -...
“The way the galleries are organised now is a greatest-hits presentation very much focused on masterworks” by white artists from the 1600s to 2000s. “It’s very traditional and focused on a march through history that is ahistorical.” - The Art Newspaper
They claimed to have received a complaint that the space was exhibiting “seditious” content—a criminal offense under Hong Kong’s controversial new national security law. - Artnet
"Construction workers renovating an abandoned cinema in the northern Italian city of Verona have stumbled upon what's been dubbed a 'miniature Pompeii' during excavations of the building's basement. The ancient site was probably abandoned after a fire, but 'the environment was preserved intact, with the magnificent colors of the frescoed walls dating back to the second century,'" said the...
It could indeed happen. Christie's is owned by François Pinault, CEO of luxury-goods conglomerate Kering (which includes, among others Yves Saint-Laurent and Gucci) and major art collector; French media magnate Patrick Drahi purchased Sotheby's two years ago; mega-collector and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault (a rival to Jeff Bezos for the title of world's richest man) is based in the...
National boundaries, it would seem, hold very little meaning at all. The squiggles hint at other political geographies, from the deeper past or some unimaginable future. - European Review of Books
