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Sotheby’s Establishes a Foothold in Saudi Arabia After Hosting the Kingdom’s First Major Auction
via artnews.comSotheby’s laid down a marker in the Middle East on Saturday evening by hosting Saudi Arabia’s first major art auction.The results were like the two-part evening sale’s lineup: a mixed bag. The house took in $17.3 million (estimate: $14 million–$20 million) across 117 lots, with works of fine art, luxury objects, and sports memorabilia among them. However, the value of the house’s foray into the desert kingdom was never going to be confined to the depth of biddi -
Sotheby’s Establishes a Foothold in Saudi Arabia After Hosting the Kingdom’s First Major Auction
via artnews.comSotheby’s laid down a marker in the Middle East on Saturday evening by hosting Saudi Arabia’s first major art auction.The results were like the two-part evening sale’s lineup: a mixed bag. The house took in $17.3 million (estimate: $14 million–$20 million) across 117 lots, with works of fine art, luxury objects, and sports memorabilia among them. However, the value of the house’s foray into the desert kingdom was never going to be confined to the depth of biddi -
Walter Robinson, Gimlet-Eyed Critic and Sharp-Sighted Painter, Dies at 74
via artnews.comWalter Robinson, whose singular paintings and pithy writings made him a cornerstone of the New York art scene, has died at 74. His death was confirmed on Facebook by his brother John Robinson. On X, critic Deborah Solomon reported that Robinson died of cancer.Robinson was a behemoth in New York—a person whose art was known to many, who befriended a multitude of famous artists, and whose writing was at one point read by just about anybody who mattered in the city’s art world. Even tho -
Noah Davis: An Innovative Painter Who Also Reimagined Art’s Role in Community
via artnews.comIn Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, nearly black night sky. With the figure facing away from the viewer, dressed in a worn red shirt and denim trousers and holding a lantern that offers little illumination, the artwork is solemn. Davis created it in the year his father, Keven, died from a brain tumor.Related ArticlesAt the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Blockbuster Exhibition Explores Different Approaches to -
Poet and artist Jay Bernard: ‘I think our problem today is technical illiteracy’
The award-winning poet and artist on exploring attitudes around Brexit, using AI in their work, and swapping London for ParisBorn in 1988, Jay Bernard is a British poet, artist and film programmer born in London. Their multimedia project Surge: Side A, about the 1981 New Cross house fire, won the Ted Hughes award in 2017. Their debut poetry collection, Surge, won the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year award and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize and the Costa bo -
Noah Davis review – LA painter of everyday black life is a revelation
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Of the moment yet steeped in the past, the dreamlike work of Noah Davis, who died a decade ago aged 32, radiates deep humanity in this beautiful retrospectiveNoah Davis (1983-2015) was a great painter, a pioneer of free culture in black working-class Los Angeles and a terrible loss to contemporary art. He died of cancer at the age of 32, leaving a young family, a wildly unconventional gallery and several hundred strange and immemorial paintings.In LA he is especially -
Even if France’s budget doesn’t tackle the public deficit, let’s give thanks it exists | Agnès Poirer
Politics have sunk so low since Emmanuel Macron’s snap election, we’re just grateful when foretold catastrophes don’t materialiseHoura! Or rather, hurrah! On Monday, the French government, led by François Bayrou, our fourth prime minister in a year, did not fall. Our expectations have sunk so low since the July 2024 snap elections derailed our politics that we are grateful when catastrophes foretold don’t materialise. When Michel Barnier’s government fell bef -
Don’t throw Salford’s groundbreaking Centenary Building in the bin | Rowan Moore
The first winner of the Stirling Prize is a moment of ambition and distinctiveness in what might otherwise be an ocean of blandness. Let’s not demolish it, says the Observer’s architecture criticWhen the Stirling prize was launched nearly 30 years ago, the Royal Institute of British Architects wanted to create an award that would match the high level of media attention that the Turner prize for art and the Booker prize for fiction then attracted. It could hardly have expected that it -
Matisse’s muse: new exhibition dedicated to the illegitimate daughter he spent a lifetime painting
Marguerite, who survived diphtheria and torture by the Gestapo, is the focus of Musée d’Art Moderne showcaseThroughout his career, Henri Matisse would return repeatedly to paint his favourite model: his illegitimate daughter, Marguerite.In what is considered his most famous portrait, she is depicted holding a black cat. In others, she is reading, relaxing and sleeping, most often with a high-neck blouse, a ribbon or a scarf covering a tracheotomy scar. Continue reading... -
How an outsider captured the intimacy of Gullah Geechee life in 13 portraits
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s exhibit at the Whitney Museum depicts the rich culture of Daufuskie IslandIn Boiling Crab, Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, a photograph by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, a lanky Black boy stares squarely at the camera.The child, wearing a trucker hat and summer clothes, holds a canister of salt and stands over a pot brimming with crabs. Two older gentlemen on opposite sides of the vat tend to the upcoming meal, possibly uncles, a father and grandfather, or cousins. Co -
‘I was amazed by how beautiful the flowers were’: Diderot Yap’s best phone picture
The Amsterdam-based artist on an image that captures colourful memories of his hometown in CameroonDiderot Yap had often seen the dainty red flowers of the Ixora coccinea shrub and the larger yellow flowers of the Allamanda plant in his home town of Douala, Cameroon. Heading home from an early morning errand, he took a moment to appreciate that day’s idyllic weather and these vibrant pockets of colour framing his walk. An idea for a photograph was blossom -
‘Let it rot’: artist says Stroud’s ‘racist’ blackboy clock should be destroyed
Most in Gloucestershire town agree 240-year-old statue should be taken down, but Dan Guthrie argues against preserving it at allThe Stroud-raised artist Dan Guthrie had just come out of a meeting about what to do with the “racist” blackboy clock that has been present in his home town for 240 years, when he had a thought. Why not just destroy it?The clock that sits on the side of a former school has been at the centre of a culture war in Stroud since 2021, when Guthrie asked the local -
From Dog Man to Cyndi Lauper: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK
There’s a new kids’ animation with distinctly Cronenbergian undertones, and the fun-having pop legend embark upon her farewell tourDog Man
Out nowRemember The Fly, where Jeff Goldblum’s scientist becomes fused with a fly? OK, imagine that, but with a dog and a police officer. Together they are Dog Man, who must defeat an evil orange cat voiced by Pete Davidson, in this family animation based on the graphic novel of the same name. Continue reading... -
This Year’s India Art Fair Proves Local Collectors Show No Sign of Slowing Down
via artnews.comFor its 16th edition, the India Art Fair in New Delhi clamped down on the number of invites it extended for its ultra-VIP preview, from 11 am to 3 pm on Thursday. This attempt to avoid the overwhelming rush witnessed at last year’s edition was forgotten just minutes after the clock struck 3, the tent becoming overcrowded. The buzz all day seem optimistic, a sign of India’s maturation of a leading art market hub. The day’s clear blue sky, in a city that tends to be smoggy, seeme -
Fareed Armaly Rejects Käthe Kollwitz Prize Citing Censorship in Germany
via artnews.comAmerican artist and curator Fareed Armaly has declined Germany’s Käthe Kollwitz Prize, citing the censorship controversies within the country’s cultural institutions.The annual €12,000 award, given out by the Academy of Arts in Berlin, established in 1992, recognizes established artists for key achievements. Armaly, who was born in the U.S. and is Lebanese-Palestinian, rejected it over what he called a “highly politicized, reactionary shift” in Germany’s c -
Trump Seizes Control Of The Kennedy Center
via theatlantic.comTrump plans to announce the dismissal of multiple members of the Kennedy Center board as soon as today, a group likely to include recent appointees of former President Joe Biden. – The Atlantic -
At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Blockbuster Exhibition Explores Different Approaches to Black Figuration
via artnews.comA range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through February 9). Organized by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure” features more than 60 artworks by 28 Black and African diasporic contemporary artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, Noah Davis, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Denz -
AI is Decoding Oxford’s Mysterious Herculaneum Scroll
via artnews.comAnother Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team competing in the Vesuvius Challenge. Among the ancient Greek words identified so far are ἀδιάληπτος (foolish), διατροπή (disgust), φοβ (fear), and βίου (life).The ancient Roman town Herculaneum was encased -
Budget Cuts to French Arts and Culture Sectors Alarm Creative Workers
via artnews.comFrance’s policy of l’exception culturelle—which has long protected its arts sector from market forces—is buckling under the weight of austerity. According to The Art Newspaper, the Académie des beaux-arts has sounded the alarm, condemning the “violence” of the latest budget cuts, which will see the culture ministry lose €150m in funding.Prime Minister François Bayrou, battling to contain the country’s budget deficit, has -
One-Third Of New York Times Subscribers Don’t Subscribe To Its News
“In its full-year results for 2024 The New York Times Company reported ending the year with 10.8 million digital subscribers — an increase of 1.1 million (year-over-year). Of those 10.8 million subscribers, 3.5 million (or 32%) subscribed only to either its Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, Audio or The Athletic products.” – Press Gazette (UK) -
Famed Titian Painting Reveals Hidden Portrait
via artnews.comBelow the surface of an oil painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, experts have identified a previously unknown work by the artist using scientific analysis, the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories at the Cyprus Institute (APAC) announced in a press release for an exhibition of the painting at the Limassol Municipal Arts Center.Researchers from APAC were initially tasked with documenting the materiality and state of preservation of Titian’s Ecce Homo (1543). As th -
Brooklyn Museum, Facing $10 M. Budget Deficit, to Lay Off 40 Employees
via artnews.comThe Brooklyn Museum said Friday that it will imminently lay off around 40 employees and reduce programming to ease a budget deficit with the potential to reach $10 million by June.The news was first reported by Hyperallergic and confirmed via a statement by museum director Anne Pasternak to the New York Times. Pasternak reportedly broke the news to staff in a letter on Friday, writing that the institution was “experiencing strong headwinds: inflation has dramatically impacted our operating -
Meta asks ‘Who Eats Art?’ in Upcoming Super Bowl Commercial, Featuring Maurizio Cattelan’s World-Famous Banana
via artnews.comThe Super Bowl is this Sunday. It’s the one day of the year that even people who care nothing about the NFL will gather together in living rooms and at pubs to watch big men in helmets and tight pants play keep away. This is in large part because the snacks, the half-time performance, and, for many, the multi-million dollar commercials. For any Super Bowl party, the snacks are paramount: chips and dip, nachos, buffalo wings. What about bananas? The potassium packed superfood doesn’t -
How Machines Have Supported Creativity. A History
David Hajdu strives to refute the ages-old criticism that art made with machines is cold, soulless and artificial. In fact, he argues, machines have enabled radical new art forms, empowered marginalized communities and served as instruments of cultural change. – Washington Post -
Yet Another Director For Berlin’s Most Troubled Theater
via nytimes.com“Many theater lovers are hoping that (Matthias) Lilienthal’s appointment marks the end of a prolonged period of turmoil at the Volksbühne, which … in recent years has been plagued by scandal and tragedy, as well as vicious conflicts about its creative direction.” – The New York Times -
India’s Giving Few Details On The World’s Largest Museum It’s Building
While India’s grandest state museum project of the 21st century forges ahead, crucial details remain unknown to both the public, as well as some of India’s leading museum figures. These include the proposed budget, plans for the current National Museum building and provisions to safeguard its collection. – The Art Newspaper -
How The Trump Administration Is Impacting Artists And Arts Institutions
via news.artnet.comThese changes won’t necessarily stop artists from making work or museums and galleries from showing work, but they could be forced to rethink how they operate. – Artnet -
David Hare: London’s National Theatre’s Retreat From Repertory Is Diminishing Culture
via theguardian.comFunding cuts and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed the venue towards fewer plays with extended runs, often featuring a high-profile name in order to fill seats – a move which Hare decried as “terrible impoverishment”. – The Guardian -
What Carlos Acosta Looks For In Dancers
via theguardian.com“From day one I said: ‘This has to be a company of virtuosos,'” says the former Royal Ballet star and current director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. “I want personalities, ‘Look at me!’ – that’s how I like it.” – The Guardian -
Why Are Arts Workers Who Make Things Work Not More Appreciated?
According to the report, employee confidence is low (scoring 51.2 out of 100), reflecting “growing concerns about job security and advancement opportunities”. Hence around half of respondents (35.7% of men and 64.3% of women) are actively seeking a new job. – The Art Newspaper -
The Tortured History Depicted In “The Brutalist”
Pointing out its solecisms and caricatures is also a way of trying to find something concrete to hold on to in this gas giant of a film. The Brutalist isn’t really interested in ‘architecture’ – it’s interested in ‘big’ themes, which it engages with in a ‘big’ and wafty way. – Apollo -
Emergency Action: Brooklyn Museum To Cut Ten Percent Of Staff
via nytimes.comIn addition to the layoffs, officials said that senior leadership will take salary cuts of 10 to 20 percent; the annual number of exhibitions would be reduced to an average of nine from an average of 12; and weeknight events with low attendance or inconsistent funding would be canceled. – The New York Times -
David Edward Byrd, 83, Designed Iconic Broadway And Rock Posters
via deadline.com“(His) swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore East its signature look and contributed at least two of the greatest, most recognizable posters in modern Broadway history, for … Follies and Godspell.” – Deadline -
Art of reinvention: Victoria Beckham teams up with Sotheby’s as curator
High-end designer hosts work by some of biggest names of 20th and 21st century at London fashion storeA customer in the Victoria Beckham flagship store in Mayfair in London looks astutely up at a Richard Prince painting. The untitled work by the American artist depicts four figures in bold acrylic and oil, and is estimated to be worth up to $600,000 (£480,000). “Richard Prince reinvented himself during every decade of his career; he always challenged himself to do something completel -
UK Artists Had High Hopes For New Arts Policy From Labour Government. What Happened?
via theguardian.com“There is no sense that Labour has yet grasped the delicate interconnected forces that underpin the arts. It is not OK to shove everything together, from ballerinas to florists, into a thing called “the creative industries”. The arts are different, and they need attention.” – The Guardian -
France Slashes Its Culture Budget
The embattled French prime minister, François Bayrou, is struggling to limit the budget deficit to 5.4% of GDP this year. Museums and cultural heritage are destined to become the main victims of the cuts. On the whole, the culture ministry has lost €150m in government funding. – The Art Newspaper -
Time To Start Charging Admission At UK Museums?
via thetimes.com“We charge tourists to visit Westminster Abbey, a West End musical or the National Theatre. What’s so different, morally or culturally, about charging for entry to the Tate galleries — especially when they are millions of pounds in the red?” – The Times -
Turner: In Light and Shade review – bathe in the redemptive power of landscape art
The Whitworth, Manchester
Combining prints culled from Turner’s studio and watercolours from the Whitworth’s own collection, this show celebrates 250 years of our greatest artist
This spring will see the 250th birthday of Britain’s favourite painter. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 among the rakes, beggars and other Georgian caricatures of London’s Covent Garden where his father kept a barber’s shop. In the 21st century, there seems to be a c -
One Of Luis Barragán’s Greatest Buildings Will Reopen As Cultural Center
via news.artnet.com“Architect and philanthropist Fernando Romero purchased La Cuadra San Cristóbal, a historic, hot pink estate on the outskirts of Mexico City last year though his nonprofit, Fundación Fernando Romero, and will open it to the public this fall.” – Artnet -
Digital Subscriptions Will Soon Pay For Entire Newsroom Of Le Monde, Says CEO
“Digital subscriber revenue is expected to cover the costs of Le Monde’s entire editorial staff within the next two years, according to chief executive Louis Dreyfus. The French daily newspaper and online newsbrand ended 2024 with 660,000 subscribers, of which 580,000 were digital.” – Press Gazette (UK) -
Michael Brennan obituary
My friend Michael Brennan, who has died aged 80, was a teacher and activist, and also tried to unravel the mathematical basis of Celtic interlace – the ornamental knot patterns found in Irish art.As a youth Mike had assisted his father in his work as a monumental sculptor. He was fascinated by the mathematical forms embedded in Celtic interlace, and in 2004 embarked on a serious study of this field, finally completing a PhD at Bangor University in 2011, on the Structure of Interlace in Ins -
Classical Music Is Good For Babies, Even Before They’re Born: Study
via classicfm.comA team of researchers in Mexico worked with 36 pregnant women, playing them “The Swan” from Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals and Arpa de oro (“Golden Harp”) by Mexican composer Abundio Martínez. The result: the music instantly calmed fetal heartbeats. – Classic FM -
Mescaline visions, Turner’s 250th and Manchester’s dada genius – the week in art
Art-punk surrealist Linder Sterling springs surprises, classic landscapes get a fresh look andHenri Michaux gets high – all in your weekly dispatchLinder: Danger Came Smiling
This promises to be an exciting show as Manchester’s punk and dada genius Linder Sterling gets her first London retrospective.• Hayward Gallery, London, from 11 February until 5 May Continue reading... -
NEA To Shift Funding Priorities Toward U.S. 250th Anniversary
via msn.com“The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that it will alter its 2026 grant guidelines, eliminating a fund for underserved communities and prioritizing projects that honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.” – The Washington Post (MSN) -
How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom
via artnews.comLiterally sent from the raging fires in Los Angeles, “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice” just arrived at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University. Organized by the Hammer Museum, it is on view in Houston through May 10. That a show about climate change would flee LA under such duress might seem uncanny if disaster wasn’t becoming so terrifyingly commonplace.The exhibition, however, veers clear of outright terror; there’s enough of that in the news. Inst -
Fulton County, Which Encompasses Atlanta, Cuts Arts Funding By More Than Half
County commissioners on Wednesday rejected calls to undo their reduction of their arts and culture budget from the previous $3 million to $1.3 million. – Atlanta News First -
Who Was Alice Coltrane? A New Exhibition Honors an Icon
via artnews.comThe breathtaking music of Alice Coltrane has the power to stop listeners in their tracks and guide them to another realm of consciousness as she masterfully traverses genres of jazz, gospel, bebop, and classical Indian music, collapsing them together in ethereal, harmonic compositions that can drift into a discordant cacophony of sound. Her embrace of the unpredictable and her refusal to limit her musical range has attracted reverence among free jazz aficionados (and ire from classical jazz puri -
Photojournalist Charles “Teenie” Harris, and the Family Friend Working to Keep His Legacy Alive
via artnews.comIn a career spanning 40 years as a photojournalist for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s leading Black newspapers, Charles “Teenie” Harris amassed an unrivaled photographic archive. The Smithsonian credits him with creating “one of the largest and most significant visual records of 20th-century African American life.”Related ArticlesWho Was Alice Coltrane? A New Exhibition Honors an Icon Christie's Sale of El Greco Painting Blocked by Romanian Government & -
Christie’s Pulls El Greco From Auction At Request Of Romanian Government
via news.artnet.comThe painting, which depicts the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, had been in the collection of the Romanian monarchy. The country’s postwar government “allegedly” had “transferred” the work to the deposed King Michael, who sold it in 1976; Romania’s current government maintains that it is still national property. – Artnet -
Karla Sofia Gascón Says She Will Sit Out Awards Campaigning
via deadline.comFollowing criticism from Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard (who called Gascón “self-destructive”), she posted on Instagram, “I decided … to let the work talk for itself, hoping my silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference.” – Deadline
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