Art News: September 2021
The latest stories from the art world over the past month...
September 30, 2021
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
September has steamed ahead and is already coming to a close! Autumn has well and truly begun. Excitement is not only in the beholder of the pumpkin spice latte… The art world truly has some incredible things going on right now.
The British Museum x LaCollection.io
This Autumn, we see the British Museum, an institution dating back to 1753, staying adaptable and current in this digital era. Today (30th September) marks the beginning of the exhibition The Great Picture of Everything by Katsushika Hokusai. To coincide with this fantastic much anticipated exhibition, the BM has partnered with LaCollection.io (a French start-up) to sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) of 200 of Hokusai’s works. Museums are often traditional, somewhat archaic places. However, this new venture sees the BM ground itself in the 21st century with an aim of attracting younger, more diverse and international audiences.
Gertrude
The artworld last year was one of the markets to take the biggest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. At the forefront of digital innovation and tackling boundaries such as economic inequality, accessibility, sustainability and environmental impact, is the British start-up Gertrude. Gertrude is an art lending platform that allows its subscribers to rent works of art for £50 a month. They are able to purchase the piece at any time and any rent paid is subtracted from the final purchase price. All works are valued between £2000 and £12000. The platform is collaborating with galleries such as Guts, Seventeen and Castor as well as artists working without representation.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Have women finally shattered the glass ceiling of the artworld and started storming through the cracks?! The latest research by art economist Clare McAndrew for the UBS Art Basel Report found that in 700 galleries, employment was predominantly female (59%). Additionally, the top jobs were also infiltrated by women. Here are some more stats:
Buyers are also reflecting this shift. UBS and Pricewaterhouse Coopers have found that the number of female billionaires is increasing faster than their male counterparts and this may be impacting the art market. McAndrew found that the median spend on art by women was more than twice that of men (£302,844 compared with £120,400). The results of this research must be taken with a pinch of salt as many galleries and no auction houses were included in the sample that was surveyed… The art market is definitely progressing in the right direction in terms of gender equality.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Another Fake
It has long been questioned whether the paintings ‘Samson and Delilah’ hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London belong to the famous Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens. Recently, a Swiss-based tech company, Art Recognition, has confirmed with artificial intelligence analysis that there is a great chance the painting is fake. Using fake and authentic Rubens paintings, Art Recognition collated a database of minute details that comprised authentic Rubens works. A trained bot then analysed ‘Samson and Delilah’, evaluating the painting square by square for deviance from style. This procedure was repeated and yielded the same result each time: that there is a 91 percent probability of the painting not being the work of Peter Paul Rubens.
