Artnet

What I Buy and Why: Miami-Based Craig Robins on His First Big Art Purchase, and Why He Now Shops in His Own Design District Backyard

You can’t talk about the rise of Miami in the art world in the past two decades without citing the major role played by Craig Robins, the developer behind the Miami Design District. As the CEO and ...
The Gazette

Iowa City Public Library’s art purchase prize contest returns

IOWA CITY — Local artists are invited to help the Iowa City Public Library give its art collection a “spring refresh.” After a hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Art Purchase Prize contest ...
Reading Eagle

Letter: Absurdly expensive art purchase offers some food for thought

Someone paid $6 million for a banana that will turn black in about 10 days taped to a white surface. That is art? The buyer could only enjoy it for a very short time — actually it was shorter when ...
Wichita Eagle

WAM to feature work by Obama portraitist, its first purchase with sculpture proceeds

The Wichita Art Museum will feature Kehinde Wiley’s “Portrait of Yaima Polledo & Isabel Pozo” as part of a new Carnival-themed exhibit. The museum has used part of the $10.5 million proceeds from the ...
AOL

Art world shrugs at $6 million banana purchase

For most art-world buyers, a work unsubtly called “Comedian” lacked a certain a-peel. It’s little wonder: “Comedian” is actually just a banana duct-taped to a wall. Created by Italian artist Maurizio ...