Murakami begins by analyzing the works of Beeple, who rose to fame through record sales at Christie’s. His works, with their sci-fi aesthetics and strong ties to social criticism, seem to have similar popularity on Instagram as Banksy has gained online.
2) Crypto Artists
Speaking of Crypto Artists, Murakami highlights the strong ties to the world of science fiction and the world of cryptocurrencies, on which the NFT market necessarily relies.
The crypto artists have the merit of living in a reality that they themselves have created through the power of the Community, thanks to a network of contacts that support, promote and train each other in the perspective of a protected and prosperous growth.
3) Crypto Punks and CryptoCats
Before getting into the nitty-gritty of thinking about collecting, Murakami points to the CryptoPunks and CryptoCats as exemplifying the desire for ownership inherent in collecting. “CryptoPunks include about 10,000 characters that are traded at very high prices; this is based on a primitive structure similar to that which makes a collector desire rare items,” Murakami says.
4) NFT Collectibles
Collecting art evokes an addiction similar to gambling, says Murakami, who claims to have been addicted to collecting himself.
His collecting story began in 2008, when his sculpture titled “My Lonesome Cowboy” sold at auction for about $15 million at Sotheby’s. That’s when Murakami decided to experience for himself what it’s like to collect art, spending two-thirds of the money he earned, thus risking bankruptcy.
The fact that works are sold at very high prices, the strong media resonance of NFTs and the desire for profit on the part of artists and collectors combine to keep people interested in the market and thus its development.
5) NFT AND PANDEMIC
Finally, Murakami justifies the boom in crypto mania as a consequence of the current historical and cultural moment, necessarily influenced by the pandemic.
“When people feel trapped in one way or another because of the pandemic, they may have to depend on something to maintain a normal, healthy mental state.”
To do this today people turn to the internet, games with sci-fi imagery and cryptocurrencies.
“I think this has something in common with the way the film industry started to change with Star Wars, with science fiction, all the way up to today with Marvel and DC Comics movies.”
In Japan, animated movies, manga, video games have a great financial and cultural impact that is now expanding globally by having the NFT world as a sounding board.
In this sense, NFTs reflect the spirit of the times and fit well with the Superflat movement, established by Murakami himself, which analyzes Japanese consumer culture through the lens of manga and anime.
After this declaration of admiration towards Crypto Art that fits well with the prerogatives of the Superflat movement we just have to wait for Murakami’s next step in the NFT universe.
And you, are you ready to learn about Murakami’s thoughts on NFTs?
Let’s discover together the 5 most expensive Old Master artists ever sold at auction!
Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons… These, and many others of course, are the names that have been dominating auctions and the art market lately. And yet it wasn’t always like this! Before the last two decades, the category of Old Masters – which includes artists active between the 14th and 18th centuries – was the most discussed and coveted by collectors and, even though its importance seems to have diminished over time, there are still numerous auction records set by these often extremely rare works, sometimes sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.
But what are the 5 most expensive antique works ever sold at auction? Let’s find out together!
5) Peter Paul Rubens, Lot and his daughters (ca. 1613-14)
In 2016, the painting depicting the biblical episode of Lot and his daughters by Peter Paul Rubens was sold at Christie’s in London for a price of £44.9 million ($58.2 million). The work, which came from a private collection, had previously been owned by such high-ranking figures as German Emperor Joseph I or the Duke of Marlborough. Now after purchase by a charitable foundation, it is on display under a long-term loan at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
4) Peter Paul Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents (1611-12)
Again Rubens and again a scene from the Holy Scriptures for this painting depicting The Massacre of the Innocents sold at Sotheby’s London in 2002 for the exorbitant sum of £49.5 million ($76.5 million). Previously attributed to another Flemish painter, the work far exceeded its initial estimate going to Canadian businessman and collector Kenneth Thomson who decided to donate it to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
3) Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a young man with medallion (1480)
On January 28, 2021, this painting definitely brought New York to life! Sandro Botticelli‘s Portrait of a Young Man with Medallion, a much-anticipated sale for many avid collectors and art dealers, was sold at Sotheby’s New York for a record $92.2 million. The work, one of the artist’s last in private hands, went to a Russian buyer who, with this incredible sum, broke the master’s previous record of $10.4 million, achieved with the sale of the Rockefeller Madonna at Christie’s in 2013.
2) Rembrandt van Rijn, Portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit (1634)
In February 2016, the Dutch and French governments, on behalf of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Louvre in Paris, made a historic joint private acquisition of two rare Rembrandt portraits depicting the Dutch couple consisting of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit. Through the mediation of Christie’s, the works were acquired through a private agreement for a price of €80 million each. The paintings, the only full-length works in Rembrandt’s oeuvre, previously belonged to the Rothschild collection and now the two museums, although the works are owned separately, have promised that they will always be displayed together.
1) Attribution to Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500)
The most expensive – and mysterious – panel in the world certainly needs no introduction! Beaten in 2017 during an evening auction of contemporary art by Christie’s New York the Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo sweeps away every previous record with its value of a good $450.3 million! Purchased by the Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salam it seems for the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the work after the sale has disappeared into thin air fueling many doubts about its authenticity! And just recently the film by French journalist Antoine Vitkine has put the load from ninety that starts from a simple question: why the work has never appeared in the exhibition dedicated by the Louvre to Leonardo da Vinci? In the documentary, Vitkine collects the testimony of an anonymous high official of the Macron government who goes so far as to declare: “The painting ended up under a series of machines and was X-rayed in every part. […] at the end of the process the verdict was revealed: the scientific evidence was that Leonardo da Vinci only made a contribution to the painting, nothing more”. And the mystery continues…
NEWS FROM THE DIGITAL AND NFT WORLD – APRIL 26, 2021
Every day, Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the world of digital art, to stay up to date!
@Mad_Dog_Jones's REPLICATOR sold for $4,144,000 with the buyer's premium, setting the record for a living Canadian artist. Thank you to all of our followers and bidders! pic.twitter.com/uxvloEyMi8
1) Phillips: $ 4.1 million for the sale of Mad Dog Jones
After Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Phillip’s auction house also sold its first NFT work! “Replicator” by Canadian artist Mad Dog Jones reached a record $ 4.1 million after two weeks of bidding. The identity of the collector is still unknown and seems to be completely new to Phillips. Will it communicate the acquisition with tweets as already happened for Beeple and Metakovan?
2) Rarible launches an NFT collection for Academy Award winners
Rarible launches a two NFT drop dedicated to Academy Award winners. Anthony Hopkins (Best Actor in a Leading Role), Frances McDormand (Best Actress in a Leading Role), Daniel Kaluuya (Best Actor in a Supporting Role), Yoon Yeo-jeong (Best Actress in a Supporting Role) and Chloé Zhao (Best Director) receive an NFT, while the latter is offered for sale on the platform for all fans. According to the organizers, only the conquerors of the famous and coveted Hollywood statuette together with the winner of the auction will be able to own this truly unique NFT.
This work will be at auction @ChristiesInc Post War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on May 14.
3) Emily Ratajkowski will sell her NFT image at Christie’s
Top model Emily Ratajkowski is ready to enter the universe of Crypto Art! But unlike the other celebrities who have approached this new phenomenon, the showgirl has a specific purpose: to claim authority over her image of her! “Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution”, this is the title of the NFT, which will be sold on May 14 at Christie’s NY and is taken from a personal shot of the model which was also reused by the artist Richard Prince. With this gesture, the star wants to regain possession of the image of her often spread without any authorization.
Everything you need to know about collecting and its players.
The world of art is a universe to be explored, full of curiosities and twists.
If you want to become a collector, or if you are simply looking for an exciting read, here are 5 books that tell the story of art collecting. Let’s discover them together!
Professione Arte is a complete guide on the art system, useful to deepen the knowledge of its protagonists and the dynamics that regulate its market. The book offers a key to those who want to make art their profession, in fact the author Andrea Concas with #ArteConcasTALKS presents brief unpublished testimonies of over 40 major national and international professionals such as gallery owners, collectors, curators, museum directors, art advisors, lawyers, market experts, which clarify the new strategies, rights, duties and responsibilities.
With the voices of the internationals Georgina Adam, Donald Thompson, Magnus Resch or the Italians Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Caroline Corbetta, Giuseppe Calabi, Giorgio Fasol, Italo Carli and many others. Finally, Professione Arte highlights the great possibilities offered by new technologies and methodologies applied to the art world such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Wealth Management and Art Lending.
Patrizia S. Re Rebaudengo, “Art Travels. Around the world with 60 collectors” published by Il Sole 24 Ore
Over a period of five years, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo met with the most important collectors in the world to understand their motivations, tastes, goals and to deepen their point of view on the most varied themes of the art system. A substantial collection of interviews makes this book a solid base for anyone who intends to get to know the people who are writing the history of collecting and thus learn, through their words and their personal experience, advice on works and artists to keep an eye on.
Heinz Berggruen, “Memories of an art dealer” published by Skira
Heinz Berggruen was not only one of the greatest art dealers of the second century, but also a passionate collector. In this 2017 publication, Berggruen recounts the personal stories he lived with artist friends such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, with fellow dealers and illustrious clients with lively personalities, such as the exuberant Frida Kahlo. A true journey through the memories of a life lived for art!
Simone Facchinetti, “Stories and Secrets from the Art Market. Works, collectors, merchants” published by Il Mulino
Simone Facchinetti’s book is proposed as a guide to understand the mechanisms of auction houses, collecting and the art market. The author deals with fundamental themes such as the attribution and authenticity of the work, up to the epoch-making deals and the major deceptions. An in-depth study useful to get in tune with a world that, according to Facchinetti, “has many traits in common with casinos”.
Ludovico Pratesi, “The art of collecting contemporary art in the global world” published by Castelvecchi
Who is the protagonist of contemporary art in the 21st century? The collector. Pratesi analyzes the success of figures such as François Pinault, Eli Broad, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo or Miuccia Prada, models for the new collectors, to tell the reader about the meaning and the sense of an art collection in the 2000s, highlighting the relationship that is created between the Italian and international markets, the importance of fairs and galleries and the methods necessary to be able to act consciously in a world as articulated as that of art.
One thing is for sure, with the disruptive entry in the art market of Crypto Art and NFTs, between millionaire sales and new collectors to be discovered, in the future we will certainly have a lot of news to read about collecting…
And you, are you ready to find out what the collecting of the future will look like between Digital Art, Crypto and NFT?
BOSTON, MA - OCTOBER 2: A group of educators and community roundtable participants are silhouetted as they are given a guided walk through of the updated school group entrance experience at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on Oct. 2, 2019. The Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday introduced a new way of welcoming school groups, part of its ongoing response to allegations that a group of minority middle-school students were subjected to racism during a spring field trip there. The museum has overhauled its pre-visit interactions with students, as well as the way school groups move through the museum once they arrive. Starting this month, teachers will fill out a questionnaire, and students will be able to watch a nuts-and-bolts video before visiting. The video, featuring two teenagers of color, details what to expect on a field trip at the MFA, down to the door students will use to enter and the type of bin they will drop their backpacks into. The museum is also planning to hire gallery hosts who will be stationed throughout the exhibits to answer questions and offer insights. And it will introduce a hotline that school groups can call inside the museum if they have problems. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Art & Tech Report by Artnet 2021
Platform Artnet has released the latest edition of its Intelligence Report, which offers a glimpse of what the art market will look like when it comes out of lockdown.
The latest edition of the Art & Tech Report produced by Artnet in collaboration with Artnet Price, which brings some optimism in a very difficult period for the evolving art market.
The Report reports that total sales volume of $10.1 billion was down a modest 25% from 2019.
China has officially overtaken the United States as the largest auction market in the world, worth over $3.4 billion. In fact, in 2020, China saw a very small decline of 0.1%, while the US and UK saw losses of around 35%.
Sotheby’s surpassed rival Christie‘s in art sales, grossing $2.7 billion in 2020, while Christie’s came in at $2.4 billion with 40% less revenue than in 2019. Sotheby’s was down 28% and Phillips was down 19%.
Unprecedented results are coming from the online art market, especially those related to auctions: Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips recorded a total of $1 billion in online sales alone in 2020, or +1,056% from 2019.
$35,698 is the average price of an artwork sold at auction in 2020, the lowest figure in eight years. What happened?
Online sales have increased, but nevertheless collectors have been cautious about buying online because they are not yet 100% confident in the security and transparency of the digital marketplace.
Also significant is the growth – as reported in the Artnet Report – of the market for “ultra contemporary” art, i.e. that produced by artists born after 1974, which recorded an increase in sales of 32.5%. In first place in the ranking of the best-selling young artists is Adrian Ghenie with his work “Lidless Eye” which sold for $7,086,543.
The Contemporary art market also performed well: four of the ten best-selling Contemporary artworks were by Chinese artists. In first place among the best-selling Contemporary artists was Zeng Fanzhi, followed by Peter Doig, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Yoshitomo Nara.
Post-War art also remained stable: in first place was Roy Lichtenstein ($46,242,500), followed by David Hockney ($41,067,500) and Cy Twombly ($38,685,000).
There is a slight increase in the number of women among the 100 best-selling artists at auction in 2020: there are eight, just one more than in 2019. Among them, the top sellers are Joan Mitchell, Yayoi Kusama and Tamara de Lempicka.
The great revelation of 2020 was the artist, represented by Pace Gallery, Robert Nava, harshly criticized for his “unproductive” art but insanely loved by collectors willing to spend incredible sums on his paintings: “The Tunnel” (2019) estimated between $40,000 and $60,000 sold for $162,500.
And you, are you ready to discover Artnet’s Art&Tech Report 2021?
This is Valeria Ricci, Antiquarian of the R.V. Art Gallery Studio.
Five questions to get a preview of the great art professionals, the daily challenges they face, the choices that have determined their path in the system and in the art market, the changes in the name of digital and advice for those who want to pursue the same career in collaboration with ProfessioneARTE.it
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Art was in her destiny, a family passion that became a profession to love.
Right from the start, for Valeria Ricci, a very young antiques dealer, that world linked to the past has become her present and her future.
With passion, study, dedication and intuition Valeria has taken over the reins of the gallery founded in the eighties, a handover that has led her not only to carry on the family project, but to develop within it a new sector such as Animal Art.
In this interview Valeria Ricci reveals the world of antiques, hers, made of a lot of study and professionalism, attention to detail and a new generation of antique dealers to keep an eye on…
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BIOGRAFIA
Valeria Ricci
Valeria Ricci, Antiquarian and Director of R.V. Art Gallery Studio continues the family tradition that boasts over thirty years of experience in the antiquarian sector with the participation in major national exhibitions (Bergamo Antiquaria, Villa Castelbarco in Vaprio d’Adda, Rassegna Antiquaria Montichiari , Modena Antiquaria, Parma Mercante).
The only gallery in Italy specialized in the genre of vintage animalier, it deals with Painting and Sculpture on an international level from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
The gallery also carries out research on artists considered to be “minor” in collaboration with English, German, Dutch and French scholars and experts where the animalier sector is more widespread.
Valeria Ricci is part of the Associazione Giovani Antiquari Milanesi.
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1) How did your path in the art world start?
My path in the art world was marked and coincides with the “first steps” in real life.
It all started when my parents, passionate collectors and lovers of antiques, opened the gallery in the 1980s, projecting their experience into this field.
A sort of ancestral imprinting, from which I have never been completely detached, despite the studies undertaken, supported by a boundless love for animals, led me to realize a professional profile with a naturalistic theme.
I soon realized that the combination of these deep passions would introduce significant changes, bringing innovation to the gallery’s taste and future artistic choices.
The ‘official debut takes place in 2011, when I decide to take over the management responsibility of the gallery independently, which from that moment will be called R.V. Art Gallery Studio, literally taking “in hand the reins” of the organization at 360 degrees.
The ambitious and perhaps daring project, also included the development of a new sector dedicated to the art Animalier, to complement the selection of works consolidated by the family tradition, which over time will be confirmed as a primary specialization of research and cultural deepening, as well as national reference point that feeds a renewed collecting in constant growth.
The world of Animalier Art is in fact completely forgotten by the Italian market, but very much in vogue, with a deep and established artistic tradition in Europe.
Italy can boast several important names, which have nothing to envy to their foreign colleagues, for technical quality, artistic sensitivity and expressive charge of the subjects represented.
2) How would you describe your profession today?
My profession today, like all sectors that cater to a demanding public, requires skills in line with an evolutionary process.
The main qualities required are: professionalism, commitment, passion, skills, constant updating and deepening not only in the field of specialization undertaken, but we must put ourselves in a “mood of open-minded player” because it is the only way to stand out and make a difference, showing a valid and consolidated professional reality.
Antiques still have a lot to tell.
Aware of the appeal it exerts on the art system, it does not tend to suffer, nor does it show itself inclined to the fashion of the moment, but it needs awareness in order to be re-evaluated and appreciated as it deserves.
I think that the most fascinating aspect, a reason for prestige and professional growth is the part dedicated to research: documenting, studying, consulting, buying historical publications, translating texts, monographs, leafing through the catalogues of dated exhibitions, getting in touch with Foundations and Museums, repositioning artists who have not had the right recognition in their time, creating synergies, partnerships and collaborations is a source of satisfaction, growth and personal affirmation.
3) How has your profession changed over time?
I have witnessed a continuous transformation of my profession, at the beginning with a role as a spectator, then transformed into that of a protagonist as an active operator in the art system, so perhaps I have a vision that takes into account various points of view.
The generation of “sons of art”, of those who, like me, have decided to continue the family business, have realised this change quite rationally, taking a proactive attitude of openness and collaboration.
The term “contamination” doesn’t frighten us, on the contrary we consider it a source of inspiration for the realization of projects and contents with a popular background, to eliminate distances and involve a growing number of fans and collectors.
Three years ago I became a member of the Gruppo Giovani Antiquari Milanesi, which is part of the Associazione Antiquari Milanesi – FIMA.
The spirit of collaboration that distinguishes our associates has contributed to the realization of important events such as the Amart Milano exhibition and new partnerships with museums and institutions, to name but a few. Giovani Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Delegazione Fai Milano, Giovani Museo Bagatti Valsecchi.
4) What impact is digital having in your industry?
Digital in the world of antiques has had a significant impact, so much so that it currently still meets with some resistance in the opinion of many operators.
We all agree that actually seeing a work live in a gallery, visiting an exhibition at a museum generates completely different emotions from leafing through a digital catalogue or taking part in a virtual tour, but in the midst of a health emergency due to Covid19, with an alarming number of cancelled exhibition events, the use of social and other technologies has given the sector the opportunity to maintain a certain visibility, economic agility and new contacts that are fundamental for expanding its marketplace profile.
I wouldn’t leave out the important aspect of sharing a very large amount of content, which has probably brought new generations of fans closer together thanks to a medium that uses a language that is more appropriate and in line with a new segment of the public outside the traditional art system.
These new skills also become part of the curriculum of an antiques dealer who wants to manage their brand in a referential and up-to-date way.
5) What would you recommend to a young person who wants to pursue your profession?
The first piece of advice is to follow your instincts in your style choices to set the trend for the gallery.
The key word for outlining one’s path is “Talent scout”: nowadays dedicating oneself to niche artistic currents means having space to develop one’s own identity, with the aim of bringing forgotten or undervalued realities to light.
The rest of the advice comes from itself: study, study in depth, read a lot, discuss with colleagues, experts and art historians, travel (when possible) and visit exhibitions.
I realize I’m privileged to be doing one of the most beautiful jobs in the world.
A profession, the result of many passions, which allows me to never stop training my spirit of observation, to be immersed in a fascinating context, to meet people aligned with my values, united by love for Art and sensitivity to a lifestyle in harmony with Nature, which is always part of our cultural heritage and must be protected.
NEWS FROM THE DIGITAL AND NFT WORLD – 23 APRIL 2021
Every day Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the world of digital art, to stay up to date!
1) Francesco Bonami enters the world of NFTs
Francesco Bonami, an internationally renowned art curator who has distinguished himself for irreverent exhibitions and a disruptive social presence with his Instagram profile The Bonamist, has communicated to the art world his decision to enter the NFT world in collaboration with Hoge Finance . Among Bonami’s reasons? Creating an NFT before the artist Anish Kapoor!
The contemporary art gallery Plan X Art Gallery opens in Milan, in via Marsala 7, and decides to inaugurate its new headquarters with the JUXTAPOSITION exhibition dedicated to the NFT works of the artist John Paul Fauves. The gallery also auctioned Super Glitch, the artist’s first ever NFT, sold for $ 40,000 on its website.
3) Petr Davydtchenko creates the first NFT performance art
In February, Russian artist Petr Davydtchenko made the first NFT performance art. It is a digital recording entitled Perftoran, in which Davydtchenko “eats a live bat in front of the European Parliament in Brussels” to bring attention to the issue of vaccines and COVID-19. The NFT went on sale for 2.5 Ether on the OpenSea platform. At the moment there are no offers yet.
Christie’s sells NFTs: this time there are the $ 9 million CryptoPunks
A new auction of digital works of art in NFT could once again break the art market
Only a month has passed since the record auction that saw Beeple and Christie’s as protagonists and since then the world of art has undergone a real revolution: the phenomenon of Crypto Art has definitively exploded and now the English auction house is ready to sell, for the second time, works of art in NFT!
Christie’s announced that on the evening of May 13 in New York during the Evening Sale dedicated to contemporary art, a batch of “CryptoPunks” – a cult series of NFT characters on the Ethereum blockchain, will be on sale, estimated at between $ 7. and the $ 9 million.
Created in 2017 by Matt Hall and John Watkinson, developers of Larva Labs (an agency specializing in technology projects), the “CryptoPunks” take the form of old 8-bit video game avatars. Each of them has its own appearance and differ from each other in the features of the face, the color of the eyes and / or hair and other physical characteristics that, after release, cannot be changed.
According to Noah Davis, Christie’s specialist, the “CryptoPunks” are “the alpha and omega of the crypto movement”. For some, they symbolize the anti-establishment and rupture spirit that characterized Crypto Art in its early days and evoke the London punk scene of the 1970s or the dystopian atmospheres of films like “Blade Runner”.
Yet for others their meaning remains a mystery, so much so that Charles Stewart, CEO of Sotheby’s, even wondered if they were art.
Beyond these statements, however, it is necessary to underline how the high amount requested brings with it a double question: if on the one hand such an important sum can mean a further affirmation for the NFT market, on the other it is right to underline how may be a symptom of a cooling. It should be borne in mind that before the extraordinary sale of Beeple at Christie’s on March 11, another pair of “CryptoPunks” had been sold for $ 7.5 million each. A group of 9 is now expected to be beaten for the same amount.
The prices of NFTs, in fact, in the last period have started to decrease more and more: from the average $ 4,000 in mid-February, they have gone down to $ 1,400 in recent days, with an estimated drop of 70%. However, the demand for “CryptoPunks” remains high: recently, in fact, there have been 388 sales of these works which alone generated $ 20.5 million in total revenue.
The lot that will be sold in May brings with it a peculiarity that bodes well: the group of characters depicted also includes a very rare blue-skinned “alien” that belongs to a subset of the most sought after “punk”. In fact, there are only 9 examples of this family, making the work a real collector’s item that cannot be found.
Photo credits: Nicolas Asfouri/Afp Via Getty Images
Women artists at the National Gallery of Rome: digital project Women Up
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Rome investigates women in art with the digital project Women Up together with Google Arts & Culture
In 2020, research was conducted on women artists in the National Gallery of Rome through an analysis of the collections, acquisitions and temporary exhibitions: 251 women artists are in the collection, 10% of the total, with 517 works and 26 countries of origin.
Until 2014, only three works by female artists were purchased each year. From 2015, the year Collu arrived, to date there have been 16 each year. Twenty percent made it into the collection, and in 2019 works by women artists became 30 percent of total acquisitions.
As of 2016 to date, one out of every 4 solo exhibitions is dedicated to a woman and in group shows the average female presence is 25%.
Women artists are promoted by the National Gallery of Rome not only through temporary exhibitions and works in the collection, but also through special projects aimed at investigating the female universe in art.
In July 2020, the National Gallery launched ‘Women up’, a rich and articulated programme that brings together different looks, languages and voices to highlight the central role of feminist contributions in shaping the art system.
“With Women Up we raise the volume of voices,” is the slogan of the initiative, whose contents are also available online, thanks to the museum’s partnership with the Google Arts & Culture platform.
After a huge work of digitization of works, talks, texts, insights, the National Gallery of Rome and Google Arts & Culture have brought online a program that consists of 139 stories and over 16,000 images and videos.
On the platform it is possible to listen to the words of experts and art critics who guide users to the discovery of over seventy female artists, protagonists with their works of art in the struggle for gender equality and women’s rights.
Users can listen to more than 20 audio stories, which tell, among others, the artists Anna Maria Maiolino, Tomaso Binga alter ego of Bianca Pucciarelli and Dorothea Tanning. It is possible to discover the art of Dora Maar, photographer and painter, of Meret Oppenheim, pioneer of Surrealism, of Vanessa Beecroft with her tableaux vivants.
A selection of the museum’s collection has been digitized in very high resolution, and it is possible to observe the works in their minutest detail, from “Südlicher garten” by Meret Oppenheim to “Apollo and Daphne” by Ketty La Rocca.
But it’s not over yet!
Eleven of the protagonists of the exhibition “I say I – Io dico Io”. Eleven of the protagonists of the exhibition “I say I – I say I”, the collective of over 40 Italian artists of different generations hosted in the spaces of the Galleria Nazionale from March 2021, have told their work, sharing a reflection on the meaning of the statement of Carla Lonzi from which the title of the exhibition derives.
An entire section of the digital project is dedicated to the Carla Lonzi Archive: on Google Arts & Culture it is possible to access over 16,000 digitized documents from the archive of the famous art critic, writer and feminist theorist.
And you, are you ready to discover “Women Up” at the National Gallery of Rome?
1) Snoop Dogg is auctioning his first NFT in collaboration with Chris Torres
American rapper Snoop Doog and Chris Torres, the digital artist behind the “Nyan Cat” gif, together for the singer’s first NFT sale. “Nyan Dogg” went up for auction on Opensea and sold for 14.2 ETH (approximately $ 33,000 at current exchange rates).
Additional open edition NFTs titled “Hazy Nyan Cat” and “Nyan Blunt” were available for purchase for 0.420 ETH each and sold 131 and 81 editions respectively for a total of 90 ETH (approximately $ 208,000 at current exchange rates).
A very special NFT sale! Matty Monahan better known as The Most Famous Artist sold 69 distinct portraits of tycoon Elon Musk who smokes cannabis during a Joe Rogan podcast.
The image, taken from a September 2018 episode during the recording, has been reinvented by more than 50 artists for the “Stoned Elon” series. The pieces sold this weekend for around $ 25,000 in Rally Tokens on Opensea.
3) Ralph Steadman former Rolling Stones illustrator sells NFTs
Illustrator Ralph Steadman sells a collection of NFT works on Nifty Gateway.
The “Fear and Loathing at Nifty Gateway” sale opens April 28 and with two pieces inspired by the classics of the writer Hunter S. Thompson, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”.
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L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici.L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
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L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono strettamente necessari al fine legittimo di consentire l'uso di un servizio specifico esplicitamente richiesto dall'abbonato o dall'utente, o al solo scopo di effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica.
Preferenze
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per lo scopo legittimo di memorizzare le preferenze che non sono richieste dall'abbonato o dall'utente.
Statistiche
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici.L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
