My COVID-19 Playlist
Because of the concerted effort made by museums and galleries to remain connected to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, there now is what seems like an avalanche of terrific content available on...
View ArticleMake the Time: Deborah Roberts at The Contemporary Austin
My New Year’s resolution is to post regularly on The Art Minute, and I can find no better subject to write about than the upcoming exhibition of work by the very smart, funny, and brilliantly talented...
View ArticleDecorating the Oval Office
Maybe you have seen stories about the art that President Biden chose to have in the Oval Office. I am just going to take a minute to write about one of those works of art, The Avenue in the Rain by...
View ArticleLet’s All Crush on Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel from c. 1480, sold at Sotheby’s this past Thursday, January 28th with a hammer price of $80 ($92.2 million with the buyer’s premium). For...
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Conspiracy and Art
Conspiracy theories have long been used as fodder for artists even before the dismissive term was coined by the CIA in 1967 in response to widespread skepticism about the Warren Commission report on...
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A Charming Love Story
Here’s a nice love story for Valentine’s Day – it comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a poem written in the 8th century in Rome that is based on a story from Greek mythology. Pygmalion was a sculptor who...
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Yes, Digital Art Just Sold for $69.3 million
It is hard to believe, but it’s true: a NFT (non-fungible token) digital artwork by Beeple entitled, Everydays – The First 5000 Days sold at Christie’s yesterday for $69.3 million. It is a collage of...
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Georgia O’Keeffe: An American Original
We are accustomed to seeing works of art by Georgia O’Keeffe in prominent American museums, but there is a lot to be said for visiting the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM and experiencing her...
View ArticleNFTs: The 21st-Century Urinals
More than 100 years ago, Marcel Duchamp started an artistic revolution when he signed a urinal with “R. Mutt 1917,” gave it the title Fountain, and entered it in an exhibition of the Society of...
View ArticleBanksyland in Austin: When Curators Don’t Curate and Organizers Don’t Tell...
Banksyland, a twenty-two-city international touring exhibition of work by the British artist Banksy just closed in Austin. Don’t worry if you missed it. Banksyland was a fine opportunity to see many...
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