Hits: 512 In 2013, just two years out of art school, the artist Lucien
Smith had already become a cautionary tale. That year, his
painting Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend
Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree set a stratospheric auction
record at Phillips New York, when it sold for $389,000. Smith saw
two... Created: 18 August 2020 |
Hits: 504 Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and
thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the
global health situation, we are currently highlighting digital
events, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area.
(Times are all EST unless otherwise... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 493 Kaleidoscopic landscapes and
riotous bursts of flowers are the signatures of Brooklyn-based
artist Shara Hughes—scenes she creates entirely from her
imagination.
The artist’s third solo show with
Zurich’s Galerie Eva
Presenhuber, “Day By Day By Day,”
opened in June, but she
will not have seen it... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 533 Any time the prized work of Italian artist Amedeo Mogiliani—one
of the most expensive painters in the world—is involved in a
dispute, the stakes are high. The latest round of legal fighting
between a high-profile research institution and a famous Modigliani
expert is no different.
Just over two... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 485 A pair of game-worn Michael
Jordan shoes just shattered the record for most expensive sneakers
ever sold at auction—which is particularly appropriate given that
he was wearing them when he shattered a backboard in 1985. (In
fact, they still have a piece of glass lodged in the
sole.)
Estimated to... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 470 “I have made my analysis and
Lebanon has Stage IV cancer,” I overheard a Lebanese economist, who
was visiting Beirut from New York, quip darkly one afternoon last
August.
The devastating explosion on
August 4 decimated large parts of Lebanon’s capital—but the country
was already ailing badly in... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 463 Time has long been a subject
that conjured up great art.
From charting the rhythms of
nature in cave art, to capturing the luminosity of sunrise or
sunset, to imagining allegories of the stages of life, art has
incorporated the passage of time as one of its great themes.
Timepieces make a frequent... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 463 The 1990s were a golden age for
the fashion industry. The boundary-breaking decade saw the birth of
the supermodel as well as countless quintessential looks—from neon
clothing to grunge—which are seeing a revival among zoomers today.
So who better to curate an exhibition about the period than... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 465 Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most
consequential developments coming out of the art world and art
market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, August
17.
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Redbone Music Video Sparks Copyright Dispute –
The Indigenous artist Frank Buffalo
Hyde claims that a music video... Created: 17 August 2020 |
Hits: 558 Mexican artist Diego Rivera casts a
long shadow on the history of 20th-century art, capturing the
energy of post-revolutionary Mexico with a style that improbably
fused four influences: Aztec culture, Cubism, Renaissance frescos,
and socialist realism.
Among his many stylized pictures of
working... Created: 17 August 2020 |
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