Interscope Pairs Today’s Top Artists with Storied Musicians for Ambitious...
It’s easy to rattle off the artists who’ve designed album covers that have gone down in history. During the ’60s, there was the covers of Rolling Stones’s Sticky Fingers and the Velvet Underground and...
View ArticleKAWS Drawing Graces the Cover of New York Magazine
An illustration by American artist and designer KAWS, also known as Brian Donnelly, graced the cover of New York Magazine this week. The pen drawing, which makes use of the artist’s infamous cartoon...
View ArticleChristie’s Launches Streetwear and Collectibles Department, Foundation...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE X FACTOR. The 256-year-old auction house Christie’s is launching a new...
View ArticleEnding Months-Long Dispute, Singaporean Art Foundation Apologizes for...
The Ryan Foundation in Singapore, which previously sought to shut down a KAWS public art show in the city’s waterfront, has apologized for the “embarrassment and/or distress” suffered by the...
View ArticleKAWS Wins $900,000 in Lawsuit Over Counterfeit Artworks
The artist KAWS will soon be $900,000 dollars richer after winning a lawsuit against two Singapore-based companies and a man named Dylan Joy An Leong Yi Zhi, who were producing counterfeit works,...
View ArticleTupac Shakur’s Ring Sells for $1.02 M. at Sotheby’s Auction
A ring that Tupac Shakur wore at his last public appearance sold today at a Sotheby’s New York hip-hop sale for $1.02 million, more than triple its $300,000 high estimate. The hip-hop artist...
View Article25 Must-See Museum Shows Beyond the US to Visit This Fall
This is a year without a Documenta or a Venice Biennale, or even a Berlin Biennale or a Biennale of Sydney, but the lack of major biennials has left plenty of room for international museums to make up...
View ArticleHas the Hypebeast Collector Gone Extinct or Simply Evolved? It Depends Whom...
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View ArticleEarly KAWS Painting Apparently Owned By Fashion Mogul Marc Eckō to Hit the...
Fashion designer and entrepreneur Marc Eckō appears to be selling a piece by KAWS, slated to hit the auction block with an estimate between $3 to $5 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately $380,000 –...
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KAWS and Andy Warhol Come Together at Last for a Museum Show in Pittsburgh
There are no shortage of exhibitions dealing with KAWS and Andy Warhol individually, but there haven’t been many that contend with the two artists together. This unusual focus forms the subject of a...
View ArticleTintin-Inspired Paintings Go to Court, Hidden Self-Portrait Resurfaces,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES PEEKABOO. A self-portrait of the coal miner artist Norman Cornish has been...
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