Sarah Cascone

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Senior Writer at Artnet

senior writer for @artnet news, co-founder of @YWintheArts

Articles

Kaws Is Koming to San Francisco for His First Major West Coast Museum Show

1 day ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

The love-him-or-hate-him street artist KAWS (b. 1974), beloved of hypebeasts everywhere, will get a solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It will be the first West Coast museum exhibition for the 50-year-old artist, real name Brian Donnelly, who was born in Jersey City and lives in Brooklyn. The exhibition, “KAWS: Family,” is a traveling show organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and currently on view at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.
Pope Francis, Who Embraced Contemporary Art at the Vatican, Dies at 88

3 days ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has died at age 88. A Jesuit priest known for championing the poor and migrants, the environment, and, to a certain extent, the LGBTQ community, Francis was also progressive in his views on art, welcoming contemporary artists to the storied Vatican Museums in Rome. Hailing from Argentina, Francis was the first pope from North or South America, and the first from outside of Europe since the 8th century, when Gregory III of Syria was named pontiff.
How an Artist’s Giant Ode to Van Gogh Became a Beloved-Yet Beleaguered-Canadian Landmark

6 days ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

In 1997, artist Cameron Cross was teaching high school art in Altona, Canada, when he decided to give the town a massive gift. To honor Altona’s status as “the Sunflower Capital of Canada,” he would erect The Big Easel, a 75-foot-tall sculpture of an easel displaying a reproduction of one of Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–1890) famed sunflower paintings. But the giant Van Gogh’s future was recently in jeopardy after wind damage forced its removal.
The Tragic Life of Egon Schiele’s Secret Niece Revealed

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

A few years ago, a group of Egon Schiele (1890–1918) scholars and curators were having drinks in Vienna when one of them casually dropped something of a revelation. The artist, whose short life they had all gone over time and again with a fine-toothed comb, had a secret niece none of them had ever known about. Schiele’s beloved younger sister and model Gertrude, or Gerti, had a baby with her husband, Anton Peschka (1885–1940), Schiele’s friend and a fellow artist, before their marriage.
Emily Cole, Daughter of Hudson River School Icon, Shines in Overdue Museum Show

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

Emily Cole (1843–1913) was less than five years old when her father, the famed landscape painter and founder of the Hudson River School Thomas Cole (1801–1848), died.
Jennie C. Jones Hits a High Note With Her Musical Met Roof Installation

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

Jennie C. Jones (b. 1968) is well known for her embrace of music and sound in her practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, and audio recordings. So naturally, for her rooftop commission at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, she’s actually built her own musical instruments, fabricating three monumental stringed instruments. Tantalizingly, visitors are asked not to touch the Aeolian harp, zither, and one-string, letting them be activated instead by the breeze.
Chinese Artist Badiucao’s Dissident Work Pulled From Hong Kong Billboards

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

Censorship has once again reared its head in Hong Kong. The dissident Chinese Australia artist Badiucao (b. 1986) and Milan’s Art Innovation Gallery are at odds after an unidentified authority cut short a digital billboard art exhibition in response to Badiucao’s reveal of a hidden political message in his work. Badiucao was one of the artists featured in “Luminance,” a group show organized by Art Innovation to coincide with last month’s Art Basel Hong Kong.
Sarah Meyohas Isn’t Deterred by ‘Failed Experiments.’ Her New Work May Be Her Most Ambitious

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

Since breaking into the art world with her cryptocurrency art project BitchCoin a decade ago, the artist Sarah Meyohas (b. 1991) has become known for her high-tech, multidisciplinary works. So, it may come as a surprise that the 34-year-old recently unveiled her first public art installation, and it is a monumental, meditative curved structure illuminated solely by the rays of the desert sun. “I have never done anything remotely like this,” Meyohas admitted to me.
The Prado Uses A.I. to Decode the Crowds in Its Most Populated Paintings

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

The applications for artificial intelligence are seemingly endless. So naturally, Madrid’s Museo del Prado is using A.I. to count how many people and objects are in its paintings in a new project called “Counting the Prado.” Yes, you heard that right—and actually, it’s a surprisingly difficult task for the human eye. Our brains are adept at subitizing, or rapidly and accurately perceiving the number of items in a set, but only up to a point.
All the Art History Nods in ‘The White Lotus’ Finale Revealed

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Sarah Cascone

After eight episodes of slowly building tension, the White Lotus finale aired Sunday night, revealing at last the victims of the explosive gunfire that ripped through the ritzy Thailand wellness resort, sending guests and staff alike fleeing for cover. A record 6.2 million viewers watched the end of season 3 of the HBO hit series, eager to learn the fates of our tortured rich folk and hardworking locals.