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The Haas Brothers — twins Nikolai and Simon — have touched down at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood to pull back the curtain on a new exhibition titled Inner Visions.Coinciding with their solo show at the Nasher Museum and Sculpture Center in their hometown of Dallas, this latest showcase sees the brothers' Accretion technique, one they began developing over a decade ago, surpass its potential. Inspired by the "layered accumulation process found throughout the natural world," the pair's earliest Accretion forms consisted of wet clay brushed on dry clay to produce a speckled finish on sculpture; now, the craft takes on new mediums.Within the exhibition, the brothers put acrylic paint to canvas in a series of their first-ever Accretion Paintings. Using sque...

Acclaimed Japanese collective teamLab will bring its Borderless Museum to the Middle East. Housed in the historic city of Jeddah and produced in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Culture, the forthcoming museum will be permanently located by the Al-Arbaeen Lagoon and comprise of over 80 sensorial installations across a 10,000-square-foot space.Founded in 2001 by Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab began as a small four person group that looked to bridge new dialogues between humans and the environments they inhabit. Known for creating highly immersive audio-visual installations, the collective has since expanded to comprise roughly 400 contributors, including artists, mathematicians, architects, designers and engineers; as well as a number of permanent museums in Japan and pop-up installations...

eBay has been a go-to after market for vintage clothing, objects, gadgets, ephemera — really anything — for nearly 30 years now. And while it is a suitable platform to collect art, eager collectors should (unsurprisingly) tread lightly when looking to purchase works by celebrated masters — even if there has been legitimate reports of authentic works being sold on eBay, such as Greco-Roman antiquities that were recently pawned off (illegitimately) by former British Museum curator Peter Higgs. According to a new investigative report by the Guardian, there are a number of fake paintings being marketed across eBay as genuine works by the likes of French artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, amongst others. Dr. Carina Popovici is the CEO of Art Recognition, a Zurich-based start-up tha...