The Rubin Museum of Art opens Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment
Installation view of Awaken: a Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, March 12, 2021 January 3, 2022, Photo by David De Armas, Courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Rubin Museum of Art invites visitors to unplug and discover the possibility to free their minds with Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment, opening March 12. Organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, this traveling exhibition guides visitors on a journey toward enlightenment, showcasing the power of Tibetan Buddhist art to focus and refine awareness, and highlighting the inextricable relationship between artistic endeavor and spiritual practice in Tibetan Buddhism. The exhibition has been re-imagined and adapted for the Rubin Museums galleries and features 35 traditional objects, includ
David Zwirner opens an exhibition of works by William Eggleston and John McCracken
Installation view, William Eggleston and John McCracken: True Stories, David Zwirner, New York, March 9 April 24, 2021. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY
.-David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by William Eggleston and John McCrackenthe first time these two iconic American artists have been featured together. On view at the gallerys East 69th Street location in New York, True Stories places Eggleston and McCracken into dialogue around their expressive use of color and light, and their distinct versions of American vernacular culture.
Born within five years of one anotherMcCracken in Berkeley, California, in 1934, and Eggleston in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1939the two artists came of age outside of the dominant centers of the art world, internalizing the spaces and light of the American West and South. Working in sculpture and photography, respectively, each would go on to
First NFT work registered to the Vastari exhibition platform
Lakoubay believes in crypto-art and NFTs as a new art movement.
LONDON
.- Seasoned crypto-collector Fanny Lakoubay registered the first NFT-based artwork on the online exhibition loan database operated by Vastari, representing a new milestone for the growing non-fungible token industry . The work Imago 2k2 a.C. by artist duo Hackatao will now be accessible to museums for loan opportunities.
Vastaris database facilitates the exchange of objects in private hands with museums who wish to exhibit them. Vastari facilitated over $2bn of (physical) content matches with venues in 2019-2020. But how are these digital artworks on a token meant to be exhibited within museum spaces? Do artists wish for their works to be shown within museum walls, or do they expect them to live in the ether? Is there a physical manifestation for these works?
Book owned by Ada Lovelace is for sale, in honor of Women s History Month
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was a renowned British scientist and mathematician (and daughter of the poet Lord Byron). She is widely considered one of the worlds first computer programmers.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Manhattan Rare Book Company is celebrating Womens History Month by offering for sale a historically significant first edition copy of a mathematical text from the personal library of Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the renowned British scientist and mathematician (and daughter of the equally renowned poet, Lord Byron). The price is $135,000.
The book, titled An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus, was originally published in French, in 1802, having been written by French mathematician Silvestre François Lacroix (1765-1843). It was translated into English in 1816, by Charles Babbage and two other students at Cambridge University. The book is Lovelaces copy from that first Englis