Art Basel and UBS present The Art Market Report 2023, an annual global art market analysis. The Art Market Report provides a review of the international art market, highlighting some of the most important trends and developments taking place each year. Authored by Dr. Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, it is an independent and...
The renowned Benin Bronzes are composed of metal sourced from Germany, according to a study published April 5, 2023 in PLOS ONE by Tobias Skowronek of the Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Germany, and colleagues. The Benin Bronzes collectively refers to thousands of African artworks in the form of heads, plaques, figurines, and other objects produced by...
In collaboration with Stetson, the artist personifies the hidden Black cowboy, reimagining Lon Megargee’s iconic painting ‘The Last Drop From His Stetson’ The American West has its own mythology, bolstered by characters who’ve taken on their own significance over the course of their representation across film and painting and literature: Natives and cowboys, the horses...
With the growth of the niche adaptive clothing market comes new challenges for retailers, including making the process of online shopping more inclusive for people with varying degrees of disability as well as expanding the functionality and aesthetic appeal of individual garments. This study involved mining online reviews to understand the perspectives of adaptive clothing...
Dilbert, the put-upon chronicler of office life, has been given the pink slip. On Feb. 26, 2023, Andrews McMeel Universal announced that it would no longer distribute the popular comic strip after its creator, Scott Adams, engaged in what many people viewed as a racist rant on his YouTube channel. Hundreds of newspapers had by...
In recent years, there has been a significant explosion of interest in Modern and contemporary art by artists from Africa and of African descent. Yet, works in this category still only amount to a small percentage of global art sales worldwide, despite the decades of artistic development made explicit in two groundbreaking survey exhibitions. ‘Afro-Atlantic...
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New research from Swansea University shows that female selfie posting is associated with intimidatory self-presentation strategies, linked to higher levels of aggression. The study, conducted by Professor Phil Reed from the University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering and academics from the University of Strathclyde, has been published in the Journal of Social Media in Society. The...
Throughout the world the generation that grew up in the 1990s found in manga, anime, and their game spinoffs a mesmerizing universe. On the one hand, they saw young protagonists achieving justice where their elders had been unable to do so, in dynamic environments ranging from sci-fi planetscapes to verdant, mythical never-pasts of our own...
In her painting United States of Attica (1972), the artist Faith Ringgold presents the familiar American map in a new light. It is darkened and covered with a jumble of texts that give it a confused appearance – a confusion heightened by the solid blocks of red and green supported by black lines, reminiscent of the Pan-African...
What does the word ‘Dhaka’ evoke for you? Dhaka is a city of hustle and bustle with a lot of soul. The density of the city generates an energy of togetherness that is addictive, which is probably why we get so many repeat visitors to Dhaka Art Summit [DAS]. What is your first memory of...
