Nov 13th, 2019 - In recent years, podcasts have been launched by a number of arts institutions and businesses, with everyone from the Museum of Modern Art to Sean Kelly Gallery getting in on the action. Now the Getty Center in Los Angeles is expanding its efforts in the field, with the debut of its second audio offering: Recording Artists: Radical Women . And a well-known figure is at the helm: the closely watched curator Helen Molesworth, formerly of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The podcast devotes each of its six episodes to a different woman artist of the 20th-century: Alice Neel, Lee ...
Nov 12th, 2019 - A career-spanning display of the Japanese artist’s installations, paintings, and sculptures will be on view exclusively at the New York Botanical Garden starting next spring—many on display for the first time in the United States. Y ayoi Kusama’s famously Instagram-friendly exhibitions are known to draw crowds in nearly every city they visit, and New York City is no exception. In 2017, Kusama’s Infinity Nets and Festival of Life exhibitions at the David Zwirner gallery attracted a total of 75,000 people—some of whom waited in line for up to six hours just to see the artist’s ...
Nov 8th, 2019 - One of the works was looted by the Nazis from Jewish collector Jacques Goudstikker, but is now being sold by his heir after restitution Only a handful of Van Gogh paintings come to auction every year, but Sotheby’s in New York has two on offer on 12-13 November. One is an early Dutch painting, with a relatively modest estimate for a Van Gogh work, and the other is from the artist’s more sought-after Paris period. The early picture, painted during Van Gogh’s stay in the remote province of Drenthe, in the northern Netherlands, dates from October 1883. Entitled Paysan brûlant de mauvaises ...
Nov 8th, 2019 - Plus, the fate of Damien Hirst's Vegas sculptures remains unknown and Wall Street's charging bull is being moved. 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 Friday, November 8. NEED-TO-READ The Met Costume Institute Announces 2020 Theme – Damien Hirst’s Sculptures Left High and Dry in Vegas – Lin-Manuel Miranda Works to Digitize Puerto Rican Art – The Sex Toy in Watchmen ART MARKET Sotheby’s New York to Offer a Pair of Vincent van Goghs – The Dutch artist’s ...
Nov 7th, 2019 - Instagram power and the rise of the consumer collector are turning the art world upside down It is not often that a work of art sells at auction for a price that creates a sense of wider significance—and outrage. But two days after Sotheby’s sold Banksy’s Devolved Parliament for £9.9m (including fees) on 3 October, the renowned curator Francesco Bonami, a consultant to the Phillips auction house, lambasted the artist in an article in the Italian newspaper la Repubblica . “The €11.1m spent on the canvas of the mysterious king of graffiti marks the birth of a collection inspired more ...
Nov 7th, 2019 - The artist befriended the child of his neighbours, and had given two paintings for the boy’s nursery Two of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings were buried in the grave of a young boy in 1892. Although this little-known fact is mentioned briefly in the National Gallery’s exhibition Gauguin Portraits , which opened in London last month, we can report the precise source of this astonishing story. In 1891, a few days after his arrival in Tahiti, Gauguin found lodgings in the capital, Papeete. His neighbours, with whom he shared a veranda, were Jean-Jacques Suhas, a French naval pharmacist, ...
Oct 27th, 2019 - PARIS — An old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman, who considered it an icon of little importance, has made her a multimillionaire. The work, a masterpiece attributed to the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue that was discovered earlier this year , sold for $26.6 million (24 million euros) Sunday. Dominique Le Coent of Acteon Auction House, who sold the masterpiece to an anonymous buyer near Chantilly, north of Paris, said the sale represented a "world record for a primitive, or a pre-1500 work." "It's a painting that was unique, splendid and monumental. Cimabue was ...
Oct 22nd, 2019 - PARIS — Much about Leonardo Da Vinci remains an enigma: the smile of the "Mona Lisa"; why the world's most famous painter left so many works unfinished; and more recently, who bought the contentious "Salvator Mundi." A new exhibit at the Louvre, however, opening Thursday and marking the 500th anniversary of the Italian master's death, tries to sketch out as complete a picture of the artist and thinker as possible. Drawing from the Louvre's permanent collection and institutions around the world, the exhibit brings together some 160 works. They include Da Vinci masterpieces, dozens of studies ...
Oct 21st, 2019 - Paul Gauguin’s portraits painted in Tahiti ‘expanded the parameters of portraiture’, but they were exoticised for a Western market. Now, modern artists are subverting this legacy. The backdrop to the portraits is Tahiti. The sitters are feminine, sensual, proffering ripe fruits and wearing flower garlands. The colours are bright: tropical yellows, hot pinks, mango orange and cobalt blue. This description applies to some of the paintings in a new exhibition, . It is, astonishingly, the first major show to focus on Paul Gauguin’s portraiture – strikingly odd as it often is, filled ...
Oct 21st, 2019 - The Museum of Modern Art. Iwan Baan, Courtesy of MoMA. The New MoMA Is More of a Good Thing Subscribe The Museum of Modern Art was born almost a century ago, though it wasn’t until the 1930s that the place had a building to call its own. Edward Durrell Stone and Phillip L. Goodwin’s handsome edifice was a rebuke to West 53rd Street’s staid old townhouses, a work of modern art unto itself. Phillip Johnson added to the building in the 1960s; Caesar Pelli in the 1980s. Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion honored all that came before, an architecture of truce. A new renovation—by Diller ...
