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Picasso Heirs Launch Digital Art Piece to Ride ‘Crypto’ Wave | Entertainment News
By JAMEY KEATEN, Linked Push GENEVA (AP) — Pablo, fulfill Crypto. Heirs of Pablo Picasso, the famed 20th-century Spanish artist, are vaulting into 21st-century commerce by advertising 1,010 electronic art items of one of his ceramic works that has in no way prior to been witnessed publicly — using a trend for “crypto” property that have taken the artwork and fiscal worlds by storm. For an unique interview just before the official launch this 7 days, Picasso’s granddaughter, Marina Picasso, and her son Florian Picasso opened up their condominium — which is swimming in will work from their illustrious ancestor — in an upscale Geneva community. There they offered up…
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Artist to weld copy of Dachau gate in Leeds performance piece | Performance art
A replica of the entrance gate to the Dachau Nazi concentration camp is to be recreated over three days in Leeds for an art project asking questions about what memorials are for and who has the right to make them. Dachau was constructed a few miles from Munich in 1933. During the war it became a death camp where more than 41,000 people were murdered before US troops liberated it on 29 April 1945. Its iron gate bearing the words “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free) was stolen in 2014, which led to a local blacksmith making an exact replica. The artist Rachel Mars, who has learned to…