‘The More Repellent You Are, the More Attractive You Become’: George Condo on Contemporary Mythmaking
The ancient Greeks had two words to describe the essence of time: chronos, the relentless, linear progression of history, and kairos, the profound, unfolding moment that breathes life into the present. As I arrived at the sun-drenched opening of George Condo’s latest exhibition, on the Greek island of Hydra, these concepts prepared me to meet […]
Art We Love: A Spellbinding Ode to Creation
Mr Eazi is a Nigerian Afrobeats star celebrated for pioneering Banku music, which fuses Ghanaian Highlife with the chord progressions and passions of Nigeria. A serial entrepreneur, he founded emPawa Africa in 2018 as a talent incubator program designed to accelerate the careers of African artists. For his debut studio album, the Evil Genius, he […]
Justin Timberlake’s Viral Mugshot Is Now a Work of Art
An artist duo in the Hamptons has immortalized Justin Timberlake’s moment of shame, turning the pop singer’s recent mugshot into an Andy Warhol-style portrait. “It’s flying off the shelves,” Robert Lohman told me. A painter and interior designer who normally specializes in ethereal paintings of clouds and skies, he collaborated with a friend, photographer Mary […]
Did LACMA Show ‘Fake’ Korean Paintings? Experts Say Yes
At least four works by artists from South Korea shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) may be fakes, according to leading experts. The works in question include Park Soo-keun’s Waikiki (early 1960s) and Three Women and a Child (1961) and Lee Jung-seob’s A Bull and a Child and Crawling Children. The […]