Art, Design & the Shape of Things to Come
By Ed McKinley
Like the stories that form this issue’s feature section, the illustration on the right represents a thematic mashup of the art market’s old guard and newest players: Grant Wood’s American Gothic meets the blinged-out billion-dollar NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club. But if there’s one thing art traditionalists and NFT enthusiasts have in common, it’s a recent explosion in high-dollar sales. The following pages explain why you should care and how to get involved.
Art, entertainment & culture
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AI Imitates Art
|From painting to rap music, artificial intelligence is invading the art world. Creatives are coping with the fallout. Singer-songwriter Nick Cave didn’t like what he was hearing. “This song is… -
Images That Make an Impact
|Conservation photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum captures nature in a way that inspires others to help preserve the environment As a one-time rock music photographer turned conservation photographer, Robert Glenn Ketchum… -
Shutter Savvy
|Oregon-based nature and landscape photographer Patricia Davidson has a passion for the outdoors that made her camera a natural fit Restless in her day job, Patricia Davidson quit and joined… -
Replay: Pinball’s Flipping Back
By Mike Reddy
|Vibrant colors, flashing lights and staccato bursts of sound: A piece of Americana is regaining popularity Few industries have endured as many close calls with extinction as pinball. Yet, despite… -
The Rock is on a Roll
|A multi-faceted entertainer, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has reached the pinnacle of media influence. After an abortive attempt at a career in Canadian professional football, he remade himself as a… -
Luckbox Leans In With Chris Law …
|… On the art of footwear design and the importance of creating with passion As a child, Chris Law became fascinated with the hip-hop culture of the Bronx even though he grew… -
The Art of the Guarantee
|THE TWO BIG AUCTION HOUSES ARE EARNING RECORD PROFITS AS THE INCREASINGLY WEALTHY TOP 1% SPEND MORE ON ART. HERE’S WHAT INVESTORS NEED TO KNOW AS ONE OF THE SCENE’S… -
High Art
|After a down year in 2020, prices exploded in 2021 for physical and digital art A work of art called Everydays—The First 5000 Days exists solely on the internet and has… -
A Bullish Case for NFTs
By Mark Helfman
|COLLECTORS ARE BEGINNING TO EMBRACE ARTWORK THAT RESIDES ON COMPUTERS At some point in the 20th century, adding machines became so sophisticated that they crossed a lineand became computers. Their… -
Art, Design and the Golden Ratio
By Ed McKinley
|Here’s the case for basing art and architecture on numbers from the Fibonacci sequence—and the case against it The golden ratio has been capturing the imagination of scholars for more… -
State of the Arts
By Mike Reddy
|The art market is booming, but most people can’t afford Picasso or a Basquiat. Here’s why they should pay attention anyway. Don’t worry about understanding abstract paintings or learning to appreciate… -
Score Your Piece of a Picasso
By Mike Reddy
|Don’t have millions of dollars to invest in artwork? A private investment platform fractionalizes high-value art so nearly everyone can get a piece of the action. Masterworks flipped Banksy’s Mona… -
The Shape of Things to Come
By Ed McKinley
|The journey of a noted designer-architect shows what may lie ahead for all of us CHICAGO-BASED JORDAN MOZER + ASSOCIATES LTD. BEGAN OFFERING AN UNUSUALLY BROAD RANGE OF INTEGRATED SERVICES…