An engineer-turned-micro artist from Bournemouth has recently sold six miniature versions of famous paintings for a collective sum of £90,000. David A Lindon’s copies measure a miniscule 0.4 by 0.5mm, small enough to fit into the eye of a needle.
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A controversial new public art installation has finally been unveiled at the River Ness in Inverness, Scotland. Proposed in 2018, the stone-built pier is part of Highland Council’s £758,350 River Connections Public Art Programme.
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A collection of rare drawings and paintings by legendary boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) has sold for a knockout $945,524 (£693,788) at Bonhams in New York. Ali’s fruitful art career surprised many after he passed away five years ago from a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
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The Swiss company Art Recognition has carried out AI analysis on Rubens’s Samson and Delilah at the National Gallery of London. The result suggests there is a 91.78 percent probability the painting is by another hand.
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Amir Soleymani, a computer programmer and art collector, is suing the digital art site Nifty Gateway for allegedly changing the terms of an auction moments before it started. The auction sold a non-fungible token (NFT) called ‘Abundance’ by the digital artist Beeple, whose work recently set a new auction record at auction earlier this year.
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Danish artist Jens Haaning has unexpectedly delivered several empty frames to an exhibition as a protest against low pay and modern-day capitalism. He brazenly titled the work ‘Take the Money and Run’.
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To ensure you are prepared for the winning bid at an art auction read our summary of the steps you should take and factors to consider.
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A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, titled Diego y yo (Diego and I) is set to appear in auction in November at Sotheby’s and, if its estimate of over $30 million is met, will become the most valuable Latin American artwork ever publicly sold. Not only that, it could possibly become the highest price ever for a female artist, if it sells in excess of the current record of $44.4 million – the amount paid for Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1(1932) in 2014.
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An exceptionally rare first edition of Mary Shelley’s (1797-1851) ‘Frankenstein’ has sold for a monstrous $1.17 million (£850,000) at Christie’s, New York. The three-volume set is now the most expensive printed work by a woman ever sold at auction.
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Last week the long-anticipated fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute kicked off with a collaboration featuring French street artist JR. The performance and installation were debuted on co-chair Timothée Chalamet’s Instagram account, before hordes of in vogue celebrities descended on the yellow carpet.
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