Source: The Art Newspaper.
Bank of America surveyed more than 1,000 US citizens with more than $3m in assets for their poll of high-net-worth individuals
Month: July 2024
Conversation with Esinulo Chiamaka Praise
The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On The Art World
Source: Forbes.
In 2020, a global pandemic forced much of the world to shut down, causing many businesses to move online—some for the very first time. It was during this lockdown that the art market began to quickly transition away from established norms toward innovations like remote sales, augmented reality simulators and online viewing rooms.
Conversation with Aigerim Asanbekova
From Scrolling to Collecting
Source: Art Broker.
In an era where social media reigns supreme, Gen Z has redefined the art acquisition landscape by merging their tendency towards digital exploration with artistic investment.
Conversation with Bahargol Ebrahimi
If It Wasn’t Created by a Human Artist, Is It Still Art?
Source: The Harvard Gazette.
The emergence of AI-image generators, such as DALL-E 2, Discord, Midjourney, and others, has stirred a controversy over whether art generated by artificial intelligence should be considered real art — and whether it could put artists and creators out of work.
Conversation with Christian Momperousse
Esinulo Chiamaka Praise voted the Artist of the Month in June 2024
BE OPEN Art is happy to announce that Esinulo Chiamaka Praise, contemporary Nigerian artist, has been voted the Artist of the Month by the visitors of art.beopenfuture.com.
Every month we give a platform to emerging talents from all over the globe and invite art enthusiasts to choose the best artist among those exhibited in our online gallery. In June 2024, Esinulo Chiamaka Praise was granted the majority of votes by the visitors of our online gallery.
Chiamaka is a graduate of Fine and Applied Arts at Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. She is inspired by how human existence compliments time. She fuses the African heritage and its cultural diversities into her works through the use of patterns on the costume of her subjects. Congratulations!
BE OPEN Art congratulates the winners of the Regional Art Competition in the Middle East
BE OPEN Art, an online art gallery set up by BE OPEN think tank, a humanitarian initiative founded by Austria-based international businessperson and philanthropist Elena Baturina, is running a competition for emerging artists, aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities – BE OPEN Regional Art.
Every month of the 3rd quarter of 2024, works by 20 emerging artists from the countries of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen were posted at the online gallery for the public to select the Regional Artist of the Month.
BE OPEN Art launches the third regional competition of 2024 to support emerging artists of Central America
BE OPEN Art, an online gallery set up by Elena Baturina’s humanitarian think-tank BE OPEN, continues to run BE OPEN Regional Art, the regional competition for emerging artists aimed to support those whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities.
Throughout 2024, BE OPEN expert community will continue selecting those artists who best represent the artistic tradition of a certain region to feature in the BE OPEN Art gallery and offer them greater visibility.
The third stage of the second year of the programme run will cover the countries of Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.