Jo Lawson-Tancred, Author at Art News Global

24 Dec Jeff Koons's Picasso Collab in Spain Is Hard Not to Love

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The mighty Alhambra on the outskirts of Granada in southern Spain is a monument to the possibilities of merging artistic traditions. Its sprawling complex of buildings, accumulated over the centuries according to whoever was in power, belongs to both Islamic and Christian architectural styles. A...

24 Dec Did a Royal Painter Hide a Scandalous Secret in This Portrait?

Posted at 12:18h in Uncategorized by Jo Lawson-Tancred

When the grapevine is proving a little bare but a thirst for gossip takes over, why not uncover a centuries old scandal? Luckily for today’s art historians, some artists were pretty shameless about hiding a few salacious hints about their private lives in an otherwise...

24 Dec From Hippos to Hot Rodents: The Year’s Best Art-Inspired Memes

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Though 2024 wasn’t a banner year in many respects, the internet can at least congratulate itself on yet another annual bumper crop of memes. And let’s not forget the role of art in making it happen! In the search for an oddly relatable scene or sentiment...

23 Dec How did new technologies change the game for creativity?

Posted at 15:00h in Uncategorized by Jo Lawson-Tancred

Suddenly, museums are in a rush to canonize the beginnings of digital art. This has resulted in a welcome fleet of survey shows and hefty catalogs; each expounds on aspects of highly experimental practices that took place at the very margins of an art world that...

23 Dec David Zwirner and Hilma af Klint's Family Battle for Estate

Posted at 14:30h in Uncategorized by Jo Lawson-Tancred

A proposed deal between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and David Zwirner gallery has hit a roadblock after it was opposed by the artist’s great-grandnephew Erik af Klint. He has described the potential agreement as a “hostile takeover” that risks commercializing af Klint’s legacy. Erik’s...

23 Dec 7 Breakout Artists from the 2024 Venice Biennale

Posted at 10:00h in Uncategorized by Jo Lawson-Tancred

They don’t call the Venice Biennale the art-world olympics for nothing. Even making it to half of the pavilions and collateral exhibitions is a serious feat of endurance and every art lover leaves La Serenissima regretting the many headliners and hidden gems that they somehow...