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Watch Belonging to Titanic’s Richest Passenger Sells for Record-Breaking $1.471 M.
via artnews.comA gold pocket watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor, the richest man on the Titanic, sold on Saturday at auction for a record–breaking £1.175 million ($1.471 million). It is the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia.The watch was sold by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, England, to a private collector in the United States.Astor, a renowned businessman who made his fortune in the fur trade, was 47 years old when the Titanic sank in 1912. According to accoun -
Sable Elyse Smith Wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize
via artnews.comArtist Sable Elyse Smith has won the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, which is awarded every two years and administered by the Contemporary Austin. The award comes with $200,000, a solo exhibition at the Texas art space that will then travel to the FLAG Art Foundation in New York, and an accompanying catalogue.Smith, who was born in Los Angeles and is now based in New York, is a closely watched artist known for working in a variety of mediums, from video to sculpture to photograph -
Artist Ophelia Arc Welcomes You Into a Psychological Web of Her Own Making
via artnews.comSomewhere between Faith Wilding’s 1972 crocheted “Womb Room” installation and the sculptural works of Eve Hesse exists the work of emerging artist Ophelia Arc. Her corporeal crochet sculptures and collaged drawings invite viewers into a psychological web of her own making. Prompted by the concept of “wound dwelling,” coined by author Leslie Jamison, Arc unpacks the trauma of her lived experience, revealing snippets of her life sourced from childhood diaries and fami -
Native American Curator Sues Chicago Blackhawks, Walker Art Center in Legal Trouble Over Breastfeeding Visitor, and More: Morning Links for May 21, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESBLACKHAWK CONTROVERSY. Apsáalooke curator Nina Sanders is suing the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team foundation and CEO Danny Wirtz, for fraud, breach of contract, and violating the Gender Violence Act, reported CBS News. The Chicago Blackhawks had hired Sanders, a specialist in Native American art, as a cultural consultant and mediator amid growing o -
If we can respect fat bodies in Beryl Cook’s paintings, why can’t we do so in the street? | Lisette May Monroe
via theguardian.comCook’s curvy characters are glamorous, comfortable in their skins and uncompromising. In real life, I am constantly bombarded with fatphobiaWith an exhibition of Beryl Cook’s work having just opened at Studio Voltaire in London, I have been thinking about what it means to occupy a fat body. I love Cook’s paintings and all their chubby glory. They are celebratory, glamorous, from the sassy half-moon of bum cheek dipping out of well-filled leopard-print shorts, to a gaggle of wom -
Gina Rinehart tried to hide her portrait – it went viral instead
via theguardian.comVincent Namatjira’s painting in the NGA of Australia’s richest woman has been seen by millions around the world, appearing on CNN and the BBC and getting the attention of Stephen Colbert and Jimmy FallonIf Gina Rinehart was trying to make sure no one saw a portrait of her, recent moves have had the opposite effect.Last week, media – including Guardian Australia – reported that Australia’s richest woman had demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait -
Gina Rinehart tried to hide her portrait – it went global instead
via theguardian.comVincent Namatjira’s painting in the NGA of Australia’s richest woman has been seen by millions around the world, appearing on CNN and the BBC and getting the attention of Stephen Colbert and Jimmy FallonIf Gina Rinehart was trying to make sure no one saw a portrait of her, recent moves have had the opposite effect.Last week, media – including Guardian Australia – reported that Australia’s richest woman had demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait -
What’s It Mean To Live In A Virtual Community? Look To The Real Cities For Answers
via theatlantic.comMisinformation graffiti is going to haunt me. But, cities, over time, learned how to deal with those problems to make cities more livable—but the web is so relatively new that we just don’t have many of those systems on it yet. – The Atlantic -
The End Of Giant Music Festivals?
via thesmartset.com2024 will also be known as the true beginning of the end of mega-live music festival culture with the unexciting two weekends of Coachella in Indio, California, the probable finale of Delaware’s Frye Festival, and, after two straight years of cancellation, the Made in America festival in Philadelphia. – The Smart Set -
Facing Enrollment Crisis, Vermont College of Fine Arts Strikes Deal with CalArts to Share Campus
via artnews.comCiting an enrollment crisis that threatens to shutter its doors forever, the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier has forged a partnership with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles that will allow its students to fulfill short-term residencies on the CalArts campus. The collaboration will begin this fall for the next academic year. VCFA is a low-residency, graduate-only program, and offers MFAs in writing, visual art, graphic design, and music comp -
Christie’s Website and App is Back Online After Ten-Day Outage
via artnews.comChristie’s website and app are now up and running again, the auction house confirmed. This comes following a ten-day outage that sparked concern among art advisors and collectors amid a busy season of sales.The website reportedly went down on the evening of Thursday, May 9 due to a “technology security issue” that was impacting some of its systems. Christie’s website was still offline on Friday afternoon, with a single webpage containing the message: “We apologise t -
Was The 1960 Venice Biennale Rigged To Choose Rauschenberg?
via latimes.com“Taking Venice” doesn’t take a position on whether dishonest mischief sullied the jury’s process of choosing Rauschenberg, although it does leave the appropriate sense that the artist easily measured up to the honor. – Los Angeles Times -
What King Charles’ First Portrait Is Meant To Convey About Him
It’s worth putting this into the context of “self-fashioning” in portraiture, succinctly described by the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt in 1980 as a process where identity is constructed as a pastiche of carefully selected details. – The Conversation -
Will Machines Replace Us? Naw — We Colonize A Different Space
This is simultaneously a misplaced conceit and misconceived fear: There are varied environmental niches to exploit and to dominate even in ecosystems with an apex-predator competitor. – Hedgehog Review -
A $5 M. Yayoi Kusama Painting That Has Never Been Exhibited Leads Bonhams Hong Kong Sale
via artnews.comInfinity, a never publicly seen painting by Yayoi Kusama is coming to auction at Bonhams’ Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong next week. The red-and-black painting from 1995 comes with an estimate of over $5 million. The painting is a rare example of Kusama combining two of her most well-known motifs, dots and the infinity nets. Compositionally the work is split in two, with black dots on a red background on the right side and a black and red net on -
The Viral Billie Eilish Louvre Promotion Video Appears to Be a Hoax
via artnews.comA video that appeared to be promoting the the pop star Billie Eilish’s new record Hit Me Hard and Soft that went viral over the week was appears have been a fake. The video shows the I. M. Pei-designed glass-and-metal pyramid outside of the Louvre suddenly flooded with deep blue water. A white door appears near the apex of the structure and Eilish, dressed in a fashionable baggy black outfit and sporting dark hair, falls into the depths of the pyramid-cum-pool. Then the words Billie E -
How Grantmakers Can Support Artists Of Color
via artsjournal.comHistorical ideas of what constitutes arts and culture and the roots of racial injustice are being re-examined, and these investments mark a step in the direction of expanding public understanding of artistic excellence and what it means to be an American. – Hyperallergic -
The Line Between Fine Art And Craft Is Blurring
via aeon.coIn many ways, it is obvious that furniture could be a direct expression of human thoughts and feelings. There is its closeness to the human body and its place at the heart of our domestic, social and political lives. – Aeon -
How Giancarlo Menotti And Carlisle Floyd Defined Mid-20th Century Opera
via hudsonreview.comAs a composer, Menotti was consigned to the bittersweet status described by Somerset Maugham to characterize his own fiction—“in the first rank of the second rate.” Maugham’s self-deprecating remark is no insult. – Hudson Review -
Why Did A Portland Suburb’s Innovative Public-Private Gallery Suddenly Close Last Month?
via orartswatch.org“It’s hard to think of another artist-run institution that simultaneously featured publicly open studio spaces for working artists, an art sales gallery connected to the studios, and classrooms for beginning and advanced fine arts instruction for children and adults.” – Oregon ArtsWatch -
The Cartoon That Has Inspired Protestors Across The Globe
via nytimes.comThe 1969 cartoon of a perpetually 10-year-old boy known as Handala is by artist Naji Al-Ali. After 1973, Ali “depicted Handala with his back turned, a gesture that transformed him into a silent witness of the horrors and outrages going on around him.” – The New York Times -
In Radiant Paintings and Beaded Extravaganzas, Jeffrey Gibson Remixes Native American Histories
via artnews.comA member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson had garnered attention with a couple small solo shows in New York and a pair of notable group exhibitions that followed. But his status was a matter of perspective. “I felt very emerging at that point,” Gibson recalled. “But because the Native art world and the larger art world were so separate at the time, I think most of my peers who were non-Native were unaware. It was like I was at different -
Why Musician Biopics, Including The New Amy Winehouse Movie, Are So Awful
via slate.comFor one reason, “the voice is a powerful and mysterious thing, maybe the most primal creative instrument that human beings possess. We’re drawn to great singers because of the intricacies and capacities of that instrument and its connection to actual, singular people.” Actors can’t fake it. – Slate -
It’s Not ‘TV Week’ Anymore
via msn.comNetflix and Prime joined broadcast channels for the traditional week of wooing advertisers – and for good reason: “Streaming video now makes up 37% of U.S. television viewing, better than either broadcast or cable TV, according to Nielsen data.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN) -
Behind The Scenes Of Twelve Opening Nights (Or Matinees) In Nine Days
via nytimes.com“I suggested to the Culture desk’s editors that it might be interesting if we sent a reporter and photographer to every opening, chronicling these moments of hope at a time of challenge. As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for.” – The New York Times -
These Devices Changed Our Homes Forever, But They’re Not Working Anymore
via theguardian.comPlus “it’s very hard to get spare parts,” says the principal curator at London’s Science Museum. So the show is going to storage, where “if a historian is doing research on the impact of the vacuum cleaner on everyday life,” it will be available – just not functional. – The Guardian (UK0 -
British Museum Recovers Missing Objects, Artist Accuses Kehinde Wiley of Sexual Assault, Nino Mier Weighs Shuttering Spaces, and More: Morning Links for May 17, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESACCUSATION. British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko has accused star artist and presidential portraitist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault, which the latter denied, reports Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews. “It almost destroyed me,” wrote Awuah-Darko in an Instagram post on Sunday. He told ARTnews he was seeking legal action and -
Despite Rising Ticket Sales And Donations, Minnesota’s Guthrie Theatre Is Running A Deficit
via mprnews.orgArtistic Director Joseph Haj: “While I believe that the Guthrie is faring well in relative terms … it is important to acknowledge that the Guthrie is not immune to these industry-wide challenges.” – MPR -
The Academy Museum Took Heat For Ignoring The Jewish History Of Many Founders Of Hollywood
via msn.comAnd now it’s trying to fix that mistake with a new exhibition. – Los Angeles Times (MSN) -
In Britain, A Dance Star Says He Wants To Clear His Name
via bbc.comGiovanni Pernice, a professional dancer on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, said “he is ‘surprised’ by media reports about his teaching methods and rejects ‘any suggestion of abusive or threatening behaviour.’” – BBC
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