Big, Blue $43.8 million Newman “Zip” Painting On the 8 th of October, a lift technician at a museum in the Netherlands mistakenly threw away a piece of artwork made to look like two empty beer cans. Last year, the infamous artwork consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall was eaten by a hungry visitor to a gallery in Seoul, South Korea. Last month, I went to an art gallery and convulsed my face in disdain at the random blobs of paint that covered the canvases on the high walls. Modern art can be quite the sore spot for us connoisseurs. The painful abstract paintings, novels of base vocabulary, CGI drowned movies and music made on one beats app with auto-tune or nonsense lyrics physically hurt. I know I sound like your grandmother here, but bear with me when I ask you; how do you feel when you see a plain canvas covered entirely in blue paint? What emotions does a blue rectangle evoke? To me, none. But what if I told you that rectangle sold for almost $44 million? You’d probably a
Smooth sailing into cold December, 2023 is wrapping up. A look back at this year reveals the interesting blends of old and new that were born. We find ourselves in a time of tumultuous and constant change. Let’s face it, gen z evolves so quick that we can’t even keep up with ourselves. Hundreds of new slang words, trends, memes crowd the internet every day – and die out pretty quickly too. So in this fast paced world, how do things like classical music, news, law, and film keep up? A look back at 2023 reveals a simple recipe for success – an intriguing middle ground. A new fight for survival, the fight to be heard, preserved, remembered has arisen. This era doesn’t require free-spirit or traditionalism, it requires adaptability. TikTok entertains over a billion users worldwide with its variety of videos in 60 seconds or less. Between the smooth swipes appear extremely creative advertising which at first glance doesn’t even seem like it with its careful blend into the current trends o