Year in Review
In 2012, ARTINFO pursued stories that explored the manifold ways fashion interacts with visual art, media, and contemporary society. From the Karlie Kloss Photoshop debate to Yayoi Kusama’s latest collaboration to the use of underage models in advertising...
In the auction world, 2012 was a banner year for trophy hunters, thanks to “The Scream,” Richter, and Rothko. But the occasionally staggering prices did little to the alleviate mounting anxieties: that a price bubble is swelling, that the Imp/Mod market grows...
Personally, this year has been a topsy-turvy one. Since assuming editor duties back in March, I’ve written less, as my energy goes into directing a website that has grown, and grown again, and now has a staff some five times what it did when I began here just...
2012 was a huge year for the performing arts. Across film, music, television, and theater, boundaries were broken, the inexplicable seemed to happen time and time again, and key figures were lost. With that in mind, we’ve decided to collect what we consider...
Famous (and infamous) remains were unearthed, looted artifacts were returned (or not), a rich archeological site faces its imminent doom, and plenty of people freaked out about the potential doom promised by the Mayan calendar. The year in archeology was an...
“Look around your living space. Do you surround yourself with things you really like or things you like only because they are absurd?” asks Christy Wampole, author of the mildly controversial (and much-mocked) New York Times essay, “How to Live Without Irony...
As museums, galleries, and artists increasingly incorporate social media into everything they do, encouraging active participation with an exponentially accelerating online cultural cycle, the rate of cross-fertilization between the art world and the Internet...
No one can accuse the art world of being apathetic. From signing petitions to protesting censorship to resigning from museum boards, art lovers know how to make their opinions heard. But that doesn’t mean they always agree with one another. To mark the end of...
This is the year that ARTINFO's art news and gossip blog IN THE AIR kicked into overdrive, churning out posts at a faster rate than a studio full of assistants doing Damien Hirst's spot paintings. While we had a tough time picking favorites among this...
