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Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

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Which makes it the ideal time to launch a new art fund, says Philip Hoffman, the chief executive of the Fine Art Group, which he founded in 2001 as the Fine Art Fund. I proved the point that art could be a good investment—we made money on 84% of the art we bought, we lost it on 16%,” Hoffman tells The Art Newspaper.

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Why artificial intelligence artists can be seen as ‘builders’, ‘breakers’—or both at once

The Art Newspaper

In Mutations of Presence (2021), Chung collaborated with D.O.U.G._4, They don’t reject technology wholesale Michelle Kuo, chief curator at large, Museum of Modern Art It means active engagement with AI—even to break it. “I view technology not just as a tool but as a collaborator,” Chung says.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

Bill, after working at the Fine Art Society in London for a decade and being director at Bowman Sculpture from 2015 to 2019, set up his own art dealership under his full name, Willoughby Gerrish, in London in 2020.

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Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk

The Art Newspaper

Chardin’s works— Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) from the Louvre and A Vase of Flowers (around 1750) from the National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh—provided an apt and elegant backdrop. The Art Newspaper

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What Makes a Work of Art Timeless in an Age Obsessed with Now?

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Whether it’s love, loss, freedom, conflict, identity, or mortality, ideas and emotions in art that deal with the human condition have endured over the centuries. It might be the intense color and dramatic brushstrokes that cause you stop in front of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

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Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

The Art Newspaper

Marwan: A Soul in Exile includes more than 150 works from major private and institutional collections, including the Barjeel Art Foundation; the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation in Beirut (both of which are sponsoring the exhibition, among others); Mathaf : Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar; the Pinault Collection in Paris; and the Berlinische (..)

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Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The Art Newspaper

Across South Asia, Modern art receives comparatively little popular or academic attention. Museums & Heritage Pakistan Modern art Museums Share Subscribe to The Art Newspaper’s digital newsletter for your daily digest of essential news, views and analysis from the international art world delivered directly to your inbox.