Trends in Art
WeTransfer was launched in 2009 as an online platform to send digital files around the world. If you have use it service, you would probably remember some famous quotes from artists, artists or activist appering in its home page. But who could imagine they would bet for contemporary art? Even better, how comercial has became contemporary art to be a businees option for an online company?
By Abel Cervantes
The art market has contaminated other systems in absurd ways. The most recent news comes from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who has auctioned the first Tweet in history at a price of 2.9 million dollars. No more no less. The message simply announces the inauguration of one of the most important digital media of today: “Just setting up my twttr”, misspelling included.
Christie’s has sold its first digital artwork and its third most expensive in its history behind two artworks by Jeff Koons and David Hockney.
A group of crypto artists bougth and original print by Banksy in order to burned it and the digitized it as a NFT. But what the hell is that?
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.
Wassily Kandisky
What if you could hear color? What if you could hear a painting? A new project by Google Arts & Culture in collaboration with Centre Pompidou in Paris lets you explore the oustanding mind of Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1886 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944) and hear the colors just as he would hear them.
By Abel Cervantes
A few weeks ago Netflix released one of the most interesting series in recent months. Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring writer Fran Lebowitz, Pretend It’s a City exposes in 7 chapters several of the most transcendent topics about one of the most emblematic places in the world through a question: is New York a city? From a critical and acute perspective—how could it be otherwise with Lebowitz as the main character—.Pretend It’s a City reaches one of its highest points in the second chapter, dedicated to cultural manifestations. Though from a scathing and lapidary perspective, the New York-based writer cleverly exposes some of the most common perspectives around the visual arts. I stop here to explore two of them:
