Flatland: The difference between artworks and their documentation images online is collapsing. So is the prestige economy of traditional galleries.
If you have a spare $5.3 million, you can buy a lovely Victorian house in London that has eight bedrooms, four bathrooms… and an attic that looks like the interior of a spaceship.
Reverse-Engineering a Genius (Has a Vermeer Mystery Been Solved?) David Hockney and others have speculated—controversially—that a camera obscura could have helped the Dutch painter Vermeer achieve his photo-realistic effects in the 1600s. But no one understood exactly how such a device might actually have been used to paint masterpieces. An inventor in Texas—the subject of a new documentary by the magicians Penn & Teller—may have solved the riddle.
The young Wellesley professor who invented contemporary art: How one seminar in the Boston suburbs helped transform American culture.
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