Ai Weiwei Displays Fantastical Creatures at Le Bon Marche
Posted: Sunday January 31, 2016
Ai Weiwei hangs bamboo + paper kite creatures in paris' le bon marché department store.Within paris’ le bon marche rive gauche department store, Ai Weiwei turns the historic retail space into his playground with an expansive exhibition of bamboo and paper installations. for ‘er xi’ — meaning ‘child’s play’ — ai weiwei references shan
Payback for Richard Prince as Models Re-appropriate Stolen Instagram Images and Sell Them for $90
Posted: Friday June 5, 2015
SuicideGirls, Los Angeles' famous alternative pin-up models, are giving everyone's favorite appropriation artist a taste of his own medicine. They've taken the image of a model that Richard Prince used from their Instagram account for his "New Portraits" series, and they reproduced his reproduction (see Richard Prince Steals More Instagram Photographs and Sells Them for $100,000; Who Are
Spanish Politicians Face Corruption Probe After Multimillion-Euro Sale of Goya Paintings
Posted: Saturday November 29, 2014
Six former high ranking Spanish government officials are being investigated over alleged corruption surrounding the sale of government-owned artworks, including two paintings by the Spanish master Francisco Goya with a total worth of around €14 million, Spanish daily newspaper ABC reported on Friday.Former education secretary Eva Almunia, and her husband
The Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist Elektra KB
Posted: Saturday May 17, 2014
Born in Odessa, raised in Colombia, and living in Brooklyn, Elektra KB is updating the concept of guerrilla girls for a new generation.In Elektra KB’s Theocratic Republic of Gaia, a brainwashed army of genderless humanoids struggles to quash a guerrilla uprising led by a troupe of seditious dancing warriors. Bare