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Ernie Barnes Estate Gets Gallery Representation Following Auction Surprise
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In Prismatic Paintings, David Huffman Pays Homage to Black Panther Protests of His Youth
via artnews.comA version of this essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday.Anyone who has been affected by the protests roiling college campuses in recent weeks—which is to say everyone, given the range of emotions they elicit and their magnitude in terms of reverberation and reach—would be advised to visit David Huffman’s current show at C -
Judy Chicago’s illuminated epic, Elton John’s best shots and an earshredding blast – the week in art
via theguardian.comThe manuscript behind the US feminist’s monumental Dinner Party is finally published, Elton’s photography obsession returns and some woodcuts warn of disaster – all in your weekly dispatchJudy Chicago: Revelations
An illuminated manuscript that Chicago started in the 1970s and is only now being published reveals the thinking behind her renowned work The Dinner Party.
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The artist behind the short-lived portal linking New York and Dublin: ‘People got carried away’
via theguardian.comBenediktas Gylys admits he was surprised by the rowdy behavior that came from the exhibit connecting people in the two citiesThe artist behind the controversial “Portal” art exhibit that visually linked New York and Dublin in real-time, but was then closed due to rowdy and extreme behavior by the public using it, has admitted he was surprised by the reaction.Benediktas Gylys also vowed to continue with his project, which has the aim of connecting people and communities all over the w -
The artist behind the portal linking New York and Dublin: ‘People got carried away’
via theguardian.comBenediktas Gylys admits he was surprised by the rowdy behavior that came from the exhibit connecting people in the two citiesThe artist behind the controversial “Portal” art exhibit that visually linked New York and Dublin in real-time, but was then closed due to rowdy and extreme behavior by the public using it, has admitted he was surprised by the reaction.Benediktas Gylys also vowed to continue with his project, which has the aim of connecting people and communities all over the w -
Olympic swimmers demand justice for, um, Gina Rinehart | First Dog on the Moon
via theguardian.comHold my philanthropy bucket! What have the arts done now?Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading... -
Swimming boss defends athletes lobbying national gallery to take down Gina Rinehart portraits
via theguardian.comSwimming Queensland chief Kevin Hasemann says ‘I’ve never been to a gallery’ and furore has ‘evolved into something I could never have imagined’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Swimming Queensland has defended a campaign that saw Olympic champions lobby the National Gallery of Australia to take down portraits of their patron, Gina Rinehart, because they were dee -
Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale Totals $413 M., Led by $33.2 M. Van Gogh, $28.6 M. Hockney
via artnews.comThe New York evening auctions came to a close on Thursday night with Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale, which brought in a total of $413 million, squarely within its pre-sale estimate of $342 million to $497 million. The brisk, 64-lot sale was led by a David Hockney painting once owned by the famed television producer Norman Lear that sold for $28.6 million and a Vincent van Gogh that sold for $33.2 million.Of the 64 lots, three were withdrawn before the auction began. Just over 37 perc -
Jenny Holzer’s Facile Guggenheim Museum Show Fails to Meet Our Moment
via artnews.com“OUR TIMES ARE INTOLERABLE,” reads scrolling text that appears on a 900-foot-long LED screen mounted to the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda right now. And who’s to disagree these days? Those words were written by artist Jenny Holzer roughly half a century ago, and she’s now recycled them anew, as if to suggest that not much has changed. For Holzer, it’s the same shit, different millennium.When Holzer exhibited similar dictums via a screen mounted to the Guggenheim -
Archaeological Remains Revealed Due to Severe Drought in Spain
via artnews.comA severe drought in 2019 revealed previously flooded archaeological sites among the Valdecañas reservoirs in Spain’s Cáceres province, reported El Pais. Experts excavated 93% of the area.Between 2019 and 2023, national and regional authorities raced to preserve and study the archaeological remains before they were looted or again lost to rising water levels. The site previously flooded in 1957 and has not been accessible since then.According to a report from the country& -
California’s Famed Wayfarers Chapel, Designed by Lloyd Wright, to Be Dismantled
via artnews.comThe Wayfarers Chapel in Ranchos Palos Verdes, California, is set to be dismantled and stored until a new site is determined for it to be rebuilt. The church was closed to the public in February after a recent landslide caused damage to the structure.The iconic glass chapel, declared a National Historic Landmark last year, was designed by Lloyd Wright, son of the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and was built in 1951. The area where it was sited, known as the Portuguese Bend on the Palos Verde -
Joe Zucker, Painter of Canvases That Subverted Conventions, Dies at 83
via artnews.comJoe Zucker, one of the most elusive talents to emerge in the wake of the Abstract Expressionist boom of the postwar era, died on May 15 at 83. The news was confirmed by David Nolan Gallery, which staged several exhibitions of his work.Beginning in the 1970s, Zucker experimented relentlessly with the physicality of painting as a medium, defying notions that flatness was essential to it. His signature technique involved dipping wads of cotton into paint and gluing them to a canvas. When dry, these -
Hoor Al Qasimi to Curate 2026 Sydney Biennale, Its 25th Edition
via artnews.comThe Biennale of Sydney has appointed Hoor Al Qasimi, one of the world’s top curators, as the artistic director of the recurring exhibition’s 25th edition, scheduled to run March 7 to June 8, 2026.Al Qasimi is the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, which she founded in 2009. Additionally, she has been the director of the Sharjah Biennial since 2002; unlike past editions, she curated that exhibition’s most recent edition, realizing a -
Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland review – ‘One’s trying to make you laugh, the other’s trying to make you horny’
via theguardian.comStudio Voltaire, London
From Tom’s pert-bottomed hunks to Cook’s curvacious ladies, both artists wanted to give pleasure‘Hate the politics, love the uniform,” would pretty much sum up Touko Valio Laaksonen’s attitude towards the Wehrmacht soldiers he encountered as a young, conscripted anti-aircraft officer in the Finnish army, fighting alongside the Germans in the second world war. After the war, Laaksonen began signing his commercial drawings for physique magazine -
Painting by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington fetches $28m at auction
via theguardian.comLate British painter’s Les Distractions de Dagobert, ‘the apotheosis of Carrington’s oeuvre’, was inspired by Hieronymus BoschThe auction record for British surrealist Leonora Carrington was smashed at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday night, marking a new high point for the artist, who lived in Mexico for most of her life and was until her death in 2011 one of the last surviving participants of the surrealist movement of the 1930s.Carrington’s 1945 painting -
A Retired Seamstress Was Reunited With the Statue She Posed For 40 Years Later at the Italian American Museum
via artnews.comWhodunnits in the garment center are few and far between these days, but one case of a missing statue was recently cracked by the subject’s granddaughter.More than 40 years after the retired seamstress Maria Pulsone posed for a statue, she was reunited with it at an unveling at the Italian American Museum, which will reopen this summer.Her granddaughter Jennifer Pulsone said that she always knew growing up that her grandmother had a statue that rested in the lobby of the Broadway building -
Leonora Carrington painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for UK-born female artist
via theguardian.comLes Distractions de Dagobert was the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’, says Sotheby’s expert in New YorkShe was worshipped as a muse by renowned surrealists including André Breton and Max Ernst, but the Lancashire-born artist Leonora Carrington quickly shrugged off the label to achieve an unprecedented level of mastery and freedom in her own painting.Now, on the 100th anniversary of Breton’s publication of the Surrealist Manifesto, Carrington has become -
Leonora Carrington painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for British-born female artists
via theguardian.comLes Distractions de Dagobert was the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’, says Sotheby’s expert in New YorkShe was worshipped as a muse by renowned surrealists including André Breton and Max Ernst, but the Lancashire-born artist Leonora Carrington quickly shrugged off the label to achieve an unprecedented level of mastery and freedom in her own painting.Now, on the 100th anniversary of Breton’s publication of the Surrealist Manifesto, Carrington has become -
An Inside Look at How Refik Anadol and Digital Art Were Finally Welcomed into MoMA and the Traditional Art World
via artnews.comEditor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022, an investigation into the murky waters of NFTs and the art world by New York Times reporter Zachary Small. It releases May 21 from Knopf.When rich collectors want to celebrate exhibition openings at the Museum of Modern Art, they rent a backroom at the museum’s two-star Michelin restaurant where the windows look onto a marble courtyard of priceless Giaco -
Leonora Carrington Smashes Record at Sotheby’s, Lawsuit Launched Over Lost Star Trek Ship, Spain Unveils Submerged Roman Treasures, and More: Morning Links for May 16, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESCARRINGTON’S SURREAL NIGHT. The Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington is the talk of last night’s otherwise mostly mixed auction at Sotheby’s in New York. Her 1945 painting Les Distractions de Dagobert surpassed previous records with $28.5 million paid with fees, reports Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews. Surrealism is getting a lot of love -
‘An incredible phallic landmark!’ The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man
via theguardian.comLe Corbusier called grain silos ‘the magnificent first fruits of the new age’. But what can be done with these soaring industrial cathedrals when they’re redundant? A Norwegian tycoon has the answerIf you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to be as insignificant as a kernel of corn, you can now get a good idea in Kristiansand, a city in southern Norway. Standing on the fourth floor of its new Kunstsilo art museum, carved out of an old 1930s grain silo, you can peer -
Vincent Namatjira says ‘people don’t have to like my paintings’ after Gina Rinehart demands portrait be removed
via theguardian.comBillionaire wants painting of her removed from National Gallery of Australia but Archibald-winning artist says he hopes people think about what he is trying to sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastArchibald-winning artist Vincent Namatjira has responded after the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart demanded that a portrait he painted of her be removed from the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).The paintin -
Sotheby’s Modern Evening Sale Yields $235 M. Led by $38.4 M. Monet and Record-Smash for Leonora Carrington at $28.5 M.
via artnews.comAfter tepid sales results during the first two nights of the marquee art auctions in New York, Sotheby’s Modern evening sale netted $235 million, led by Claude Monet, Leonora Carrington, René Magritte, and Alexander Calder.While 96 percent of lots sold and several bidding wars broke out, nervousness continued to be evident among buyers through the large number of incremental bids, 32 out of 50 works sold with guarantees and irrevocable bids, as well as several works by blue-chip art -
New Record for Leonora Carrington as Surrealist Painting Sells for $28.5 M. at Sotheby’s
via artnews.comLeonora Carrington’s 1945 painting Les Distractions de Dagobert sold for $28.5 million with fees on Wednesday night during Sotheby’s evening sale for modern and contemporary art, setting a record for the Surrealist artist at auction.The painting, carrying a $12 million–$18 million estimate, hit that price after 10 minutes of bidding. According to Artnet News, Argentinian developer and businessman Eduardo F. Costantini—who was in the room—bid against buyers on the ph -
NYC Building Film Production To Rival Hollywood
via latimes.comThe aggressive studio expansions signal New York’s continued determination to double down on the film business and compete with its main rival, Los Angeles, for a bigger slice of the Hollywood pie — even as the industry is struggling to rebound nationwide. – Los Angeles Times -
Steve Martin Writes About Being Friends With Peter Schjeldahl
via newyorker.comPeter’s goal, per him, was to have one idea, at least, per sentence. His best mentoring, he said, came from journalists, which makes sense. His reviews have an urgent quality. Breaking news! – The New Yorker -
Are You A Music Or Lyrics Person?
via dirt.fyiDo you consider yourself more of a music person or a lyrics person, and why? – Dirt -
YouTube Is Now The Second-Most Popular TV Network
via wsj.comOnce a repository of amateur videos, the service owned by Alphabet’s Google has grown into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, highly produced series, sports highlights and live events. – The Wall Street Journal -
A Four-Step Method To Spot Fake News
via bbc.comWhen it comes to not falling for misinformation, being aware of our human fallibilities, such as our quickness to believe what we want to believe, is a good first step. – BBC -
Assessing The “Devastating” Cyberattack On Christie’s
via news.artnet.comIt was not immediately clear whether it is only the public-facing website that is affected, or whether any client information was at risk. Christie’s did not immediately answer an email requesting clarification. – Artnet
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