"Empire of Light" by René Magritte will be auctioned for the first time at Sotheby's. The starting price for the painting is 60 million dollars.
The monumental painting, painted in 1961 for Baroness Anne-Marie Gillon Blood will be sold at auction at Sotheby's in London on March 2. The canvas measures 114 by 146 centimeters with an estimated value of more than 45 million pounds sterling ($60 million).
Get ready for a new world order: art market experts make their predictions for 2022
U.S. dominance, industry collaboration and growing concerns about climate change are all on the minds of art market experts - and, of course, NFT. Art market experts interviewed by The Art Newspaper gave their thoughts on what to expect from the art market in 2022.
The National Museum of the Netherlands presented the world's most detailed photo of Rembrandt's "Night Watch"
To create the image, the Rijksmuseum team used 8,439 individual photographs, which were connected by artificial intelligence. From computer and cell phone screens, the Dutch masterpiece can now be viewed in great detail.
Esentai Gallery
The project Art Future for the development of contemporary art in Kazakhstan and Central Asia is the management company of Esentai Gallery — a gallery of contemporary art, which was founded in 2015. Since the opening more than 30 exhibitions have been held and work of more than 75 artists have been represented.
Artist sold a digital model of a house for $500,000 through NFT
Canadian artist Krista Kim was the first in the world to sell a digital model of a house. Futurism reports about it. Kim offered a non-exchangeable token (NFT) of the house, in which only virtual characters can live. The buyer gave 288 units of Ethereum cryptocurrency for it, which exceeds $520,000.
The 14-year-old artist earned $1 million on cartoon NFT whales — and continues to receive money from their resale
Abigail and her brother launched the Belugies NFT project - 8000 pictures of belugas were sold out in ten hours. Business Insider told about its creation. Adam, 25, works as a trader, and his 14-year-old sister Abigail is fond of animals and loves creativity.
Schoolgirl from Mangistau painted more than 300 paintings
Merey Meirambaeva, a 10th grade student at school from village called Ushtagan, Mangistau district, independently studied visual arts and has already painted more than 300 paintings, Kazinform MIA reports. Merey’s interest
A young artist draws people on the metropolitan bus
In Nur-Sultan, a young artist draws residents and guests of the capital on the bus, reports BaigeNews.kz. CTS spokeswoman Uchat Azanbayeva told about the artist on Facebook. It is only known that the girl is
Paintings of Kazakhstan prisoners put up for NFT auction
Paintings of Kazakhstan prisoners put up for NFT auction. The price of one painting starts from 180.000 KZT, the correspondent of Tengrinews.kz reports. As reported in the Committee of the Penal Enforcement System (CPES)
The exhibition of Bakhyt Bubikanova opened in Almaty
A personal exhibition of Bakhyt Bubikanova, one of the brightest figures among the representatives of the younger generation of Kazakhstani artists, will be held in Almaty from December 4, 2021 to January 31, 2022, the correspondent reports Tengrinews.kz.