Japan Once Dominated the Art Market. Is the Country Ready for a Comeback?
Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...
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'Nothing stays the same': How First Fridays traded art for spectacle in Phoenix
The First Fridays Art Walk in downtown Phoenix has a long, complicated history, from its simple beginnings in the late 1980s ...
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New Nadia Saikali exhibition demonstrates Beirut’s role as a hub for abstract art in the 1970s and 1980s
For Nadia Saikali, abstraction is akin to dancing on the canvas. The Lebanese artist, who was born in 1936, has often ...
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Wollongong studio Redback Graphix fine-tuned the art of playfully getting politics into art in the 1980s
The 1980s was a decade that put the fun in fluoro ... with collections in Australia's best art institutions. Nick Southall worked for Redback as a technician. "In Wollongong in the early 80s ...