What’s new? Weekly art-climate overview
Fragment and Osnova, both Russian galleries, have withdrawn their participation from the next Liste art fair in Basel taking place from 13th to 19th of June. Their place will be taken by two Ukrainian galleries The Naked Room, based in Kyiv, and producer of the Ukraine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and Voloshyn Gallery, currently a bomb shelter and whose founders Max and Julia Voloshyn are stranded in the US. The Ukrainian galleries will not have to pay participation fees and are being offered transportation for their pieces by other EasterEuropean galleries exhibiting at Basel as well.
The director of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, asked for all museum artwork loaned to Italy to be returned to Russia by the end of March. This includes pieces such as Canova’s Winged Cupid, Tiziano’s Young Woman with Feather Hat, and Picasso’s Young Woman, some of which had never been displayed in Italy.
It’s been a year since NFTs have entered the art market first with Christie’s and then with Sotheby’s and Phillips and even getting into art galleries like Pace Gallery who developed its own platform. Takashi Murakami is working on a new drop of his Murakami. Flowers in collaboration with RTFKT. Urs Fischer released an NFT collection last spring. Damien Hirst also had an NFT collection drop by the name The Currency. Andy Warhol has also had five of his digital works sold as NFTs via Christie’s last year. Contemporary artists are catching up and launching their own NFTs showing that NFTs are here to stay.
This week’s highlighted artists all produce NFTs.
Yam Karkai created NFTs that empower women and is the co-founder of World Of Women community, a project to help provide more opportunities to women and bring more representation and inclusivity to the NFT community. Her work sells out really fast but you can find it in secondary NFT marketplaces.
Vhils is a street artist known for his huge portraits sculpted into walls. He creates these murals by removing material with a chisel and with explosions. You can acquire videos of his explosions as NFTs on Nifty Getaway.
Diana Sinclair is one of the youngest curators within the NFT space (18 yo). She was selected for the Top 50 most influential people in NFTs and her work combines art and technology. You can purchase her work on OpenSea.
By Nery Nery, 2022
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