Arts news

• Three to See: Miami

  02-12-2016 09:46
  
  The Rubell Family Collection has a unique place in the landscape of the art world. While it remains a strong Miami institution in its own right, market-makers and hangers-on, as well as intellectuals, follow the familys movements. Just about everyone wants to know what the Rubells have been up to, and this week they can find out. The main show this season, High Anxiety (until 25 August), features works from Don and Mira Rubells recent, prolific art buying. The Rubells have acquired 407 works si
  
  Read more

• Christie’s Will Auction Two Joan Mitchell Paintings from Rockefeller University Estimated at $32 M.

  31-10-2024 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will auction two paintings by Joan Mitchell from the collection of Rockefeller University during its 20th century evening sale on November 19.City Landscape (1955) has an estimate of $15 million to $20 million, and is the larger of the two. The other is an untitled painting, also from 1955, that carries an estimate of $9 million to $12 million. Both works date to the era when Mitchell was ascending as one of the foremost artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement.Rockefeller
  
  Read more

• German Restitution Panel Rejects Grosz Heirs’ Claims for Two Paintings in State Collection

  31-10-2024 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  A German advisory panel that oversees claims related to the Nazi-looted art in the countries’ national museum collection has rejected a restitution claim for two paintings by George Grosz held by the Bremen Kunsthalle. The panel claims there isn’t sufficient evidence to support claims the works were lost due to the artist’s persecution.Grosz was a German painter who is best known for his images of Berlin during the 1920s. He is associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, wh
  
  Read more

• Sotheby’s Will Auction Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture in November

  31-10-2024 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will sell Leonora Carrington’s 1951 sculpture La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman) this November at a modern art evening sale, where it will head to auction with an estimate of $5 million to $7 million.“This is her greatest sculpture,” Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s senior vice president and head of Impressionist and modern art for the Americas, told ARTnews.La Grande Dame is made of carved and polychrome wood that has been painted with imagery alluding to a rich tapes
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Llyn Foulkes’s Art About American Rot Is More Eccentric—and Urgent—Than Ever

  31-10-2024 18:41 via artnews.com
  
  “Maybe I have this stupid feeling that art can save the world,” the Los Angeles–based artist Llyn Foulkes said in an oral history conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. That was in 1997. Now, in 2024, Foulkes, one of the original artists to show at LA’s storied Ferus gallery in the ’60s, would likely be the first to admit that it hasn’t. If anything, the world has, by most accounts, gotten worse. But our dark times seem like good ones to show
  
  Read more

• Llyn Foulkes’s Art About American Rot Is More Eccentric and Urgent Than Ever

  31-10-2024 18:41 via artnews.com
  
  “Maybe I have this stupid feeling that art can save the world,” the Los Angeles–based artist Llyn Foulkes said in an oral history conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. That was in 1997. Now, in 2024, Foulkes, one of the original artists to show at LA’s storied Ferus gallery in the ’60s, would likely be the first to admit that it hasn’t. If anything, the world has, by most accounts, gotten worse. But our dark times seem like good ones to show
  
  Read more

• Art Basel Hong Kong Names 242 Galleries for 2025 Fair

  31-10-2024 16:52 via artnews.com
  
  Art Basel has revealed the exhibitors and programming highlights for its 2025 Hong Kong edition, which opens to the public on March 28 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.Some 242 galleries are currently set to participate, the same number of exhibitors as the 2024 edition, give and take a few names: 46 galleries from the 2024 edition will not return to Hong Kong in 2025, though 46 have joined. The 2025 galleries hail from 42 countries and territories, with more than half of all pa
  
  Read more

• A Massive Gustave Caillebotte Retrospective Offers a Comprehensive and Touching Portrait of French Impressionist

  31-10-2024 15:31 via artnews.com
  
  For around a century, Gustave Caillebotte was the most discreet of the Impressionists, only coming back into the spotlight in 1994, when the Grand Palais in Paris celebrated the centenary of his death in 1894 through a memorable retrospective. Ever since, the French painter has been the subject of several exhibitions from London to Washington, D.C. to Switzerland.Now, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Art Institute of Chicago have joined fo
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Ecofeminism Has Long Planted the Seeds for Prescient Forms of Art-Making 

  31-10-2024 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  In September 2020, Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for the first time. The story of a Black California teen searching for a way to live sustainably in a community ravaged by climate change, fires, and civil unrest seemed timelier than ever, especially given that the novel opens in July 2024. That fall, Butler, who was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur “Genius” fellowship, also landed on the
  
  Read more

• Ahead of MoMA PS1 Survey, Ralph Lemon Joins Paula Cooper Gallery

  31-10-2024 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Paula Cooper Gallery now represents interdisciplinary artist Ralph Lemon, whose major survey at MoMA PS1 in New York opens next month.With a practice that spans dance and performance, painting and drawing, installation, and more, Lemon is known for creating works that defy the conventions of a given medium and push the form to its limits and ultimately to new heights. Looking at the past decade of his career, PS1 exhibition, “Ceremonies Out of the Air,” will be sure to further cement
  
  Read more

• Whitney Museum Could Expand in Meatpacking District Under New City Plan

  31-10-2024 13:30 via artnews.com
  
  The Whitney Museum of American Art may expand its footprint to the nearby Gansevoort Meat Market building located on the west side of Manhattan as part of a development proposal in the area.New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is currently facing five separate criminal counts, announced the plan on Monday, as part of the proposed “Gansevoort Square” development project. The city plan calls for turning a 66,000-square-foot site in the Meatpacking District into a multi-use public-privat
  
  Read more

• Miami Heat’s Bronze Statue of Dwayne Wade Prompts Comments from Gov. Tim Walz and Charles Barkley

  31-10-2024 12:27 via artnews.com
  
  Getting a statue is a big deal for many athletes, a sign of significant achievement and recognition of their legacy. Unfortunately for three-time NBA champion Dwayne Wade, the 7-foot-3 bronze figure unveiled in front of the Kaseya Center has mostly prompted jokes and criticism it does not resemble him at all.The statue was unveiled on October 27, supposedly in reference to the Miami Heat player’s “this is my house” gesture made in response to a double-overtime victory over the
  
  Read more

• Ashfika Rahman Wins the PinchukArtCentre’s $100,000 Future Art Prize as Shortlisted Artists are Praised for Traveling to Kyiv Amid the War

  31-10-2024 12:18 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, Bangladeshi artist Ashfika Rahman scooped $100,000 as the winner of 2023’s Future Generation Art Prize in Ukraine, marking the award’s 15th anniversary. The prize, which was launched by the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv in 2009, supports international artists aged 35 or younger.The exhibition for this year’s award opened on October 4 at the PinchukArtCentre after being delayed twice by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was originally set for October 2023, with the p
  
  Read more

• Ashfika Rahman Wins PinchukArtCentre’s $100,000 Future Art Prize

  31-10-2024 12:18 via artnews.com
  
  On Tuesday, Bangladeshi artist Ashfika Rahman received $100,000 as the winner of 2023’s Future Generation Art Prize in Ukraine. The prize, which was launched by the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv in 2009, supports international artists aged 35 or younger and counts as one of the biggest art awards worldwide.The exhibition for this year’s award opened on October 4 at the PinchukArtCentre after being delayed twice by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It was originally set for October 2023,
  
  Read more

• Culture in Crisis: A Renewed Call for Systemic Change in New York’s Arts and Culture Sector

  31-10-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Gonzalo Casals and Mauricio Delfin are cofounders and codirectors of the Culture & Arts Policy Institute, a New York–based nonprofit organization that addresses critical systemic challenges by emphasizing data-driven research, strategic capacity building, and a commitment to transparency, accountability, and participation.The Covid-19 pandemic cast a long shadow over the arts and culture sectors worldwide. Its impact in cities like New York revealed deep-seated vulnerabilities, pushing
  
  Read more

• Van Gogh’s smoking skeleton and Munch’s sickly sex-scapes: great artists’ ghoulish sides revealed

  31-10-2024 10:50
  
  A show of unfamiliar works by the pioneers of modern art shows that they weren’t immune to the allure of darkness and horror – and explains why the gothic style will never dieYou might laugh off Halloween as little more than kids dressed as ghouls demanding sweets and leaving sticky fingerprints on doorbells. But we’re all susceptible to the spine-tingling embrace of the supernatural, at least when it comes for us in the seductive guise of the gothic. We never seem to weary of
  
  Read more

• Are Joshua Citarella and Brad Troemel Beating the Edgelords or Joining Them?

  31-10-2024 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  IF YOU ARE A MILLENNIAL AND ART WORLD ADJACENT, chances are you’ve come across the Instagram posts of artists Brad Troemel or Joshua Citarella. Originally famous for artistic gags and trolls, these days, Troemel posts curated selections from TikTok that he appends with ironic captions referencing aspects of contemporary internet culture: hustle porn, new age manifestation, or therapy talk, to name a few. Citarella, meanwhile, posts about his research into niche online political identities,
  
  Read more

• ‘A large part of my life’: a former Banksy associate sells his archive

  31-10-2024 08:26
  
  At a Los Angeles-based auction, Steve Lazarides is preparing to say goodbye to a giant trove of Banksy artwork and memorabilia, expected to make millionsAfter several tumultuous years, the former Banksy associate Steve Lazarides saw the writing on the wall. Between the challenges of the pandemic, the escalating cost of living, mental health struggles and a weighty financial setback from his now-defunct manufacturing company, Lazarides suddenly found himself longing to reclaim his first love, pho
  
  Read more

• Drawing the Italian Renaissance review – Christ, naked and muscly, leaps from the grave

  31-10-2024 01:01
  
  King’s Gallery, LondonAmong dazzling works by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo from the Royal Collection, the sketches of lesser artists offer comfort and inspiration to future artists in this absorbing showThe sculptor, goldsmith and murderer Benvenuto Cellini found himself alone one day on a Florentine piazza facing his rival Baccio Bandinelli, whose statues he thought looked like sacks of squashes topped by melons for heads. He fingered his dagger, getting ready to deliver the ultimat
  
  Read more

• This November, $1 K. Can Buy You a Visit to the Studio of Blue-Chip Artists like Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Gibson

  30-10-2024 20:42 via artnews.com
  
  A host of top tier New York-based artists are opening the doors to their studios to benefit the International Fine Print Dealers Association Foundation this November.Eleven artists, including Katherine Bradford, Leonardo Drew, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Joel Mesler, Marilyn Minter, Tschabalala Self, Joel Shapiro and Mickalene Thomas, are taking part in the STUDIO VISIT benefit sale, which runs live on the IFPDA Foundation’s website from November 9 thought
  
  Read more

• Three Just Stop Oil Activists Banned From Protesting In London After Throwing Soup At Van Gogh Painting

  30-10-2024 20:40 via artnews.com
  
  Three climate activists from the group Just Stop Oil have been banned by a judge from protesting in London after throwing soup at a painting by Vincent van Gogh last month. The judgment follows a series of peaceful protest actions by Just Stop Oil across the UK over the past week, including at the British Museum, and after museum directors issued an open letter demanding an end to demonstrations involving notable artworks.Mary Somerville, 77, Stephen Simpson, 71, and Phil Green, 24, had thrown t
  
  Read more

• November Evening Sales in New York Include Basquiat Portrait at Christie’s Estimated at $20M. to $30M.

  30-10-2024 19:26 via artnews.com
  
  After this month’s positive results at Frieze London and Art Basel Paris—and in advance of a tense US presidential election soon to be in the rear-view mirror—market watchers are no doubt hopeful that the upcoming marquee November auctions will mark the beginning of the end of this year’s weak art market. Of course, that depends on the material, the true determining factor of a good or bad auction season. So far, the auction houses have been dribbling out information
  
  Read more

• Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and Environment Prize

  30-10-2024 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña as the winners of its inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize. The award comes with a $100,000 purse and institutional support from the museum to develop a related commissioned project.The prize, which was established earlier this year by philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt, “is awarded biennially to artists whose work foregrounds pressing environmental concerns a
  
  Read more

• Dealers at The Art Show Weigh in on a Soft Market: ‘A Great Picture Always Sells’

  30-10-2024 17:53 via artnews.com
  
  Not even an hour into the opening of The Art Show, the annual fair of the Art Dealers Association of America, New York dealer Charles Moffett had sold half of the seven egg tempera on wood New York City-scapes by emerging artist C’naan Hamburger he had on view—priced $8,000 to $15,000—and had the other half on hold. By the end of the night, he had sold five. That was a strong result, Moffett told ARTnews, considering the state of the market.“The first time I worked t
  
  Read more

• British Museum’s ‘Silk Roads’ Exhibition Aims to Tell the Complex Story of the Misunderstood Trade Route

  30-10-2024 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  The history of silk is in many ways wrapped up in the history of humanity. Archaeologists have discovered traces of silk farming dating to 5,000 years ago, providing forensic proof to the story, in Chinese folklore and the writings of Confucius, that Empress Leizu, also known as Xi Ling-shi, developed the cultivation of this valuable commodity around 3,000 BCE. One day while sitting under a mulberry tree drinking tea, a silkworm cocoon dropped into her teacup. Its thread-like texture began to lo
  
  Read more

• ‘Things got a bit edgy’: artist Tony Clark on painting with punks, drugs and Nick Cave

  30-10-2024 15:00
  
  The Australian artist taught Rowland S Howard, dodged heroin in Melbourne and painted cover art for the Bad Seeds. He reflects on the past 50 yearsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThere is a universe in which Tony Clark is not about to have a major retrospective in Melbourne. Fifty years ago, he took breaks from studying art history at Reading University to tour the UK in a Ford Transit. While his long white hair could betray a prog-rock past, he sheepishly admits, “I actually fe
  
  Read more

• Sotheby’s Closes Deal with Abu Dhabi Soverign Wealth Fund for $1 B. Cash Injection

  30-10-2024 14:57 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has closed a deal, previously announced this summer, for Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund and investment company, ADQ, to acquire a minority stake in the auction house. ADQ, along with the family of telecoms tycoon Patrick Drahi, the auction house’s billionaire owner, bought newly-issued shares of the company worth $1 billion. While the exact terms of the deal—or the company’s new valuation—were not disclosed, a Sotheby’s spokesperson sai
  
  Read more

• Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art Co-Present “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return”

  30-10-2024 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and Archives of American Art invite visitors to contemplate what a portrait can be with “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return,”on view through July 6, 2025. This is the largest presentation of the late artist’s work in Washington, D.C., in 30 years.Related ArticlesBanksy Migrant Boat Decried as 'Vile,' Louvre Accused of Copying Dance Program, St. Louis Art Center Shutters Pro-Palestinian Exhibition, and More: Morning Links fo
  
  Read more

• ‘Majestic brightness’: Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art finds a new permanent home

  30-10-2024 08:00
  
  After decades of nomadic existence, the Polish capital’s art temple is open for permanent business in an inspirational, light-filled new buildingWhen Poland joined the European Union 20 years ago, our world changed. I was a student in Warsaw, and spent my savings on a train ticket to Berlin – not for migrant work, but to see the 200 masterpieces at the Neue Nationalgalerie on loan from the New York Museum of Modern Art.In 2017, ahead of a stint working in Silicon Valley, I rushed to
  
  Read more

• Fright club! Hollywood’s golden age goes ghoulish – in pictures

  30-10-2024 08:00
  
  Spectres of real-life horrors haunt Raphaël Neal’s uncanny self-portraits – from a femme fatale covered in cockroaches to a leading man with blood-covered hands Continue reading...
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!