Last week, ahead of its upcoming London 20th century art evening sales, Sotheby’s saw its New York mid-season “Contemporary Curated” auction achieve a hammer total of $19.3 million ($24.3 million with buyer’s premium). The result […]

On Tuesday, amid the crypto art craze that has taken hold of the market, Sotheby’s announced it will collaborate with the anonymous digital artist Pak for a sale this April. The auction house’s CEO Charles […]

Yes, you can achieve perfection. A drawing template enables you to create exact circles, squares, lines, arcs, and more without reaching for a compass, ruler, or protractor. It’s a necessary tool for executing clean-lined blueprints, […]

Although Gerhard Richter’s blockbuster exhibition at the Met Breuer in New York closed after just nine days at the start of the pandemic, fans of the artists might be interested to learn that 100 of […]

A recently created mural by Banksy has been tagged with a reference to a rival street artist. According to a report by the National, Banksy’s painting atop the wall of a former prison in Reading, […]

If you’d like to make your own prints out of blocks you carve yourself, you’ll find no shortage of options. You’ll just have to decide what material you want to carve. Block printing—the process of […]

The foundation of every handmade book is its bookbinders’ boards—those essential front and back covers that protect a book’s pages. The first hardcover books had vellum pages and covers made from wood, but after the […]

If you want to diversify the art world, you need to begin by diversifying the art schools. During my 30 years teaching at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the absence of race-based scholarships […]

For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists have found new fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a grouping of ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that date back to between the 3rd century B.C.E. and the […]

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THIS WHOLE NFT ART THING IS CERTAINLY GOING SMOOTHLY. Some users of the NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway reported that artworks had been stolen from their […]