Artist News
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Ed Sheeran named the most-viewed artist on TikTok this year
Ed Sheeran is named the most-viewed artist on TikTok in 2021 days after festive track Merry Christmas enters the UK singles chart at number one By Brenda Dennehy For Mailonline Published: 13:53 EST, 13 December 2021 | Updated: 14:02 EST, 13 December 2021 Ed Sheeran has been crowned the most-viewed musical artist on video-sharing platform TikTok for 2021. The popstar, 30, launched three exclusive single previews from his album Equals on the social media site this year. More than five million people also tuned in to watch his record-breaking live performance at the UEFA Euro 2020 show. Animated: He worked the crowd in his usual confident style The report, an analysis…
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The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
Simon Leigh’s Next Act – Superstar artist Simone Leigh revealed her plans for the U.S. pavilion at next year’s Venice Biennale. Miami Madness – The Art Angle podcast looks back on a week of art fairs in Miami through the eyes of Annie Armstrong, Artnet’s Wet Paint columnist. A New Record (of Some Kind) – NFT superstar Pak became, by one measure, the most expensive living artist of all time when some 28,000 buyers bought 266,445 units of a single digital artwork, raising $91.8 million. New Art, New Problems – Katya Kazakina investigates the new problems of showing and preserving digital art that can be changed by an artist at any time. So Long, Sacklers –…
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Malaysian artists earn freedom to be creative with NFTs | Arts and Culture News
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Life-sized murals, quirky installations and every colour on the canvas: before the COVID-19 pandemic closed art and performing spaces in March 2020, the art festivals and galleries of the Malaysian cities of Kuala Lumpur and George Town provided a lifeline, and inspiration, to the country’s artists. But with the disruption of the past 20 months, many have struggled to survive as full-time, “physical” artists, and have been forced to move out of their comfort zones. Some have ventured into the newly emerging world of non-fungible tokens (NFT) and cryptocurrency. NFTs are unique digital assets designed to represent ownership of a virtual item: unlike Bitcoin and other…
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Artist Simone Leigh Reveals Her Plans for the Venice Biennale, Including a Major Symposium of Black Thinkers and Makers
The title of the U.S. pavilion at next year’s 59th Venice Biennale will be “Simone Leigh: Grittin“—and come fall, the artist will host a major convening, “Loophole of Retreat: Venice,” for the occasion. The new details about the eagerly-anticipated exhibition—Simone Leigh is the first Black woman artist to represent the U.S. at the prestigious event—were revealed today by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the pavilion’s commissioner, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. “This will be the first time the U.S. Pavilion is entirely dedicated to the experiences and contributions of Black women,” Jill Medvedow, the ICA’s director, said in a statement. “Global in…
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NFT project sells for $91.8m, debatably achieving the highest price ever for a work by a living artist
Thousands of collectors are staring at their digital wallets today, wondering how their investments in The Merge, an NFT (non-fungible token) by the pseudonymous artist (or artist collective) Pak, will mature. Sold from Thursday through Saturday in an open edition on the NFT platform Nifty Gateway, more than 28,000 buyers spent an eye-watering total of $91.8m to acquire 266,445 total units of mass (for those who did not join in on the sale, “mass” is analogous to “digital token” and allows for some interesting wordplay with the terms of the sale). According to Nifty Gateway that could make this sale the most expensive ever for a work by a living…
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Michigan school shooting: Artist accused of ‘harbouring’ Ethan Crumbley’s parents claims he doesn’t watch news
The owner of an art studio where Oxford High School shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley’s parents went into hiding was not aware that the couple were wanted by authorities because he doesn’t watch the news, according to his attorney. Andrzej Sikora, the Detroit-based artist, said he did not know about the charges against James and Jennifer Crumbley or that the two had stayed the night at his studio on Friday after he went home, his attorney Clarence Dass said on Sunday. Mr Dass said the Crumbleys went to his client’s studio on Friday morning when he was not aware of the charges pressed against them. The 65-year-old artist shared a “friendly…
