Marina del Rey-based startup Cosmic Wire, which works with content creators to monetize intellectual property using blockchain technology, is making a foray into the international art world with the purchase of Dubai-based ArtsGalore. Cosmic Wire announced the $31.5 million acquisition March 28. As part of the deal, ArtsGalore founder Mohamedali […]
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Launched by Art-World Insiders, the New NFT Platform Artwrld Is Trying to Corner the Market Where Traditional and Crypto Art Meet
If the mention of NFTs elicits eye rolls in the contemporary art world, it’s almost always for one particular reason: substance. Even if it’s a generalization or a stereotype, crypto-art has a reputation for lacking rigor and depth. Signing onto the chat is Artwrld, a new NFT platform that aims […]
Meet the queer artists changing the country music landscape
“I didn’t think of it as an angle or something really groundbreaking at all,” the masked singer told CNN of his songwriting. “I just thought I was doing what everybody else does, which is write from your heart.” That he’s gay is “the least interesting thing about [him],” Peck said. […]
Herbalife Nutrition Opens Expansive State-of-the-Art Facility in India to Meet Continued Local and Global Growth
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Herbalife Nutrition, a premier global nutrition company, has officially opened the doors to its newest 154,697 square foot Global Business Services Center, which houses technology, a contact center, creative services, an innovation center, a quality laboratory and a research and development facility, in Whitefield, a suburb of Bangalore, […]
Meet 3 Contemporary Artists Who Use Innovative Techniques to Revel in the Beauty of Black Hair
Black hair is—and has always operated as—a form of identity. In early African cultures, hairstyles signified a person’s tribe, social status, or family history. However, the pernicious effects of colonialism later shifted how Black hair was viewed. In the new hierarchy that emerged, European features were valued and kinky hair […]
Meet artist Vanessa Rishel: channeling religious iconography and anime influences into a singular style
For as long as artists have been producing art, religious iconography has been a mainstay. From the prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France, to the contemporary works of artists such as Aleksandar Todorovic and Nadia Waheed, the practice of art as a means of representing spiritual devotion is as old […]