Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

Apr 17, 2024 | artnews.com | Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

Digital artist Sam Spratt is living the artist’s dream. This week, he celebrated the opening of “The Monument Game,” his first-ever art show. But it wasn’t a group show in some DIY space in New York, where he is based, like so many artists typically start out, but a solo exhibition in Venice, during the art world’s biggest event of the year—the Venice Biennale. How did Spratt–a virtually unknown name in the art world–make such a tremendous leap?

Apr 5, 2024 | artnews.com | Shanti Escalante-De Mattei |Harrison Jacobs

When NFT.NYC was established in 2018, it brought together a tight-knit community of Web3 nerds. But, by 2021, it had exploded into a monster convention, with 1,500 speakers and a stacked calendar of parties bringing together art, tech, and finance types, often for the first time. At this year’s post-crypto crash edition, which ended Friday, the energy was more muted and the Web3’s various factions kept to themselves.

Mar 6, 2024 | documentjournal.com | Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

Indie social media found a way to ditch the algorithm. Why aren’t we signing up? When I talk to people about the social media experience that they crave, they point back to their days on Tumblr. In the collective memory of millennials, Tumblr represents a kind of utopian meadow where people went to gather beautiful images and important knowledge. I did the same.

Feb 28, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

What artwork hangs across from Mona Lisa? What lies downstairs from Van Gogh’s Sunflowers? In “The Permanent Collection,” we journey to museums around the globe, illuminating hidden gems and sharing stories behind artworks that often lie beyond the spotlight.

Feb 23, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

Kurimanzutto is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founded by its namesake husband-and-wife duo, José Kuri and Mónica Manzutto, the influential gallery played a fundamental role in introducing the international art world to contemporary Mexican art. Today, kurimanzutto is known for its omnivorous tastes and broad reach, promoting homegrown Mexican talent veering from contemporary art heavyweight Gabriel Orozco to anti-fashion androgyne Bárbara Sánchez-Kane.