Toilet Bowl-04, Apartment A, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2016. Do Ho SuhSTPI Portrait of Emi Eu. Courtesy of Emi Eu. For the past two decades, Emi Eu, executive director of STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, has been promoting creative experimentations in print and paper with leading contemporary artists, like Han
The $3.4 million sale of an original drawing from a 1984 Spider-Man comic has set a new record for the most-expensive piece of interior comic art, at Heritage Auctions in Dallas on Thursday. The work by Mike Zeck sparked a heated bidding war, opening at $330,000 and quickly escalating into the millions. The previous record
All images © Ryan Eicher Intricate linework and trippy, geometric motifs flow through the minuscule glass-blown serpents by Ryan Eicher. The Maryland-based artist casts smooth, colorful gradients, rainbow stripes, thin parallel bands, and intersecting helices within the snakes’ coiled bodies, a challenge considering the structure of the patterns shifts as he shapes the forms. Each
The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art in Tel Aviv has temporarily shuttered amid ongoing censorship dispute between city officials and artists represented in a recent group exhibition. The museum closed after 47 participants in a group show demanded the withdrawal of their art as a show of solidarity with David Reeb, whose work was
As we embark on a new year, with some trepidation but also a fresh supply of hope, we are looking ahead to the completion and evolution of many long-awaited projects. Some promise to deliver a new vision for how we can all live together, carving out exciting public spaces in which people can gather freely
Last exhibited over 40 years ago, a 1936 painting by American modernist Marsden Hartley recently resurfaced after it was found in a bank vault where a collector had stored it for safekeeping, according to a report in the Portland Press Herald. The unnamed collector recently passed away, and the work, titled Friend Against the Wind
BEST Hungry Badger Makes Historic Discovery – A badger seeking food in the aftermath of the historic Storm Filomena accidentally unearthed a cache of ancient Roman coins in northern Spain. A Very Real Van Dyck – An art historian purchased a lookalike painting by the Dutch master for under $100 in 1976, and now experts say it’s likely
An early Roman figure carved from wood was unearthed as part of archaeological research accompanying the construction of a new rail line between London and Birmingham, England. According to a press release from HS2, as the high-speed railway is known, the figure was dug up in July from a ditch whose water-logged and thus oxygen-deprived
The Rijksmuseum’s forthcoming historical show “Revolusi! Indonesia Independent,” which opens in February, promises to be an eye-opening look at Indonesia’s fight to gain independence from the Dutch Colonial Empire. One seemingly small detail in the show has proved a sticking point: the eschewing of a term that one historian labeled “racist” in a recent article, provoking controversy
An incident of vandalism in London this week has reignited public debate over how to reassess the legacy of a famous artist and a known abuser. On Tuesday night, a man attacked an Eric Gill statue installed outside the BBC headquarters in central London. The suspect spent four hours hitting the sculpture with a hammer
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