Dec 7th, 2023 - Michael Bouhanna, Vice President and Head of Digital Art & Contemporary Art Specialist at Sotheby's, shared today (Dec. 7) that pioneering generative artist Vera Molnár has passed away at age 99. The news was confirmed by Michael Spalter, a notable digital art collector and former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rhode Island School of Design. Molnár was less than a month away from turning 100—a milestone many people in the art community were looking forward to ...
Dec 7th, 2023 - The architect and longtime Louis Vuitton collaborator has translated his building designs into a handbag collection. The iconic Frank Gehry -designed art museum Fondation Louis Vuitton—the imposing glass and steel structure housing Louis Vuitton's art collection in Paris's Bois de Boulogne park —was just the beginning for LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault and the famed architect. The pair has joined forces repeatedly since the structure's inauguration in 2014, most recently at Art Basel ...
Dec 6th, 2023 - An inclusive curatorial theme sees works by older female artists snapped up Reports of increasing gender equality in the art world have rarely, if ever, been matched by the data. But sales from the opening day of the Untitled Art fair on Tuesday reveal that 67% of works reported to be sold were by women artists. The results are not altogether surprising. This year the fair took steps to cultivate a more inclusive platform through its curatorial theme, "gender equality in the arts", with nearly ...
Dec 6th, 2023 - She is also exhibiting at Gagosian's booth at Art Basel Miami Beach this week. Jamian Juliano-Villani, the New York-based painter known for reappropriating images from memes, fashion photography, and art history for her irreverent paintings, will be showing at Gagosian in March 2024. The solo exhibition, titled "It," will feature new paintings, anchored by Spaghettios (2023). The large-scale work, about six feet long and seven feet tall, depicts a bowl of Campbell's torus-shaped pasta in the ...
Dec 6th, 2023 - The work, "Delta" (1958), is coming to the market for the first time in years, with an asking price of $45m Frank Stella's sons are selling the American artist's very first Black Painting , with an asking price of $45m, at Art Basel in Miami Beach this week. Stella painted it in 1958, when he was just 22 years old. If it achieves the listed price, it will become one of the most expensive works by Stella to have ever been sold. His auction record, also for a Black Painting , stands at $28m. " ...
Dec 5th, 2023 - For the residency's twelfth year, the Rubell Museum leans into textile art. Miami mega-patrons Don and Mera Rubell like to be thought of as tastemakers in the contemporary art world. Since they began an artist-in-residence program at their private institution, the Rubell Museum, in 2011, their emerging artist resident has been given the prime slot of the December show—timed to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. Among the art world, the spotlight has come to be known as a fast-track to ...
Dec 5th, 2023 - In 2023 the bar for shows was so high it was hard to choose the best. But which one was a stinker? In terms of exhibitions, I doubt that there will be many better years in my lifetime than 2023. Among my highlights are some of the best shows I have ever seen—and there are many that narrowly missed the cut. Equally, I am not sure I will often be as dismayed as I was by my turkey of the year. Matisse: The Red Studio , Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen Although it opened in ...
Dec 5th, 2023 - The artist's audiovisual and installation works surprise and disorientate the viewer. The mysterious conceptualist Lutz Bacher is having her first posthumous institutional show at Raven Row in London. The artist herself initiated the concept for the exhibition with curator Anthony Huberman as a mixed presentation of audiovisual pieces which featuring old VHS footage from Princess Diana's funeral and the voices and imagery of legendary figures from pop culture, including Leonard Cohen—but ...
Dec 5th, 2023 - The history of zines—short for "fanzines" or magazines—stretches back to the 1930s, when authors produced short, usually self-made publications with mimeograph machines . Early zines were associated with science fiction fans, eventually expanding into categories like comic books and rock music. Their popularity took off in the 1970s, when they were typically produced using copy machines. Since then, zines have connected members of various movements, becoming vital tools for ...
Dec 5th, 2023 - See works on paper from the likes of Degas, Monet and Cézanne. It is little wonder that an art movement like Impressionism, popular for capturing the elusive immediacy of everyday life, would be drawn to drawing. Works on paper, historically relegated to the status of a preparatory sketch, soon became masterpieces in their own right. Emancipated from the formal rigor and slick stylisations of Rococo and Neoclassicist painting, the Impressionists were able to reveal something that felt ...
Dec 4th, 2023 - All you ever wanted to know about Rothko, from the artist's own writings to the most complete study of his famous Seagram Murals • Click here for more reading lists on the world's greatest artists A sweeping survey of the American Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-70) at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has garnered rave reviews and is one of the blockbuster shows of the year. The exhibition covers the breadth of the artist's career and includes important loans, such as one of ...
Dec 4th, 2023 - An expansive show that makes the largest retrospective print exhibition of David Hockney's career to date goes from the 50s up until 2022 or over 50 years, David Hockney has been a dominant force in contemporary art. A new career-spanning show at the Honolulu Museum of Art brings the artist back to Hawaii for the first time in many years, with an exhibition of over 100 pieces in various media documenting Hockney's journey from the 1950s up through the pandemic years. "We were drawn to different ...
Dec 1st, 2023 - The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's The auction record for 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, famed for his royal portraits, could more than double early next year when Sotheby's offers his painting Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain (1632), with an estimate in the region of $35m, during the auction house's Old Masters sales. The painting shows Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain, the French-born ...
Nov 30th, 2023 - The 28-page work sees the artist praising the Impressionists and discussing 'haunting visions' The Courtauld Gallery has bought the last literary manuscript by Paul Gauguin remaining in private hands. Written in 1902 on the remote Marquesan island of Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, it is bitter denunciation of critics who do not understand Modern art. It was submitted for publication in the radical journal Mercure de France , but rejected by its editors. Gauguin entitled his French text Racontars ...
Nov 30th, 2023 - Could there be an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting? Some experts are alleging that a piece depicting a younger version of the sitter could be the original. The Mona Lisa (1503–19) is a Renaissance painting of the Florentine woman Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, by Leonardo da Vinci. The Isleworth Mona Lisa , as it has been dubbed (because it was previously owned by an art dealer in the London suburb), shows Lisa in the ...
Oct 11th, 2023 - At Frieze Master's this week, Zurich-based Koetser Gallery will have something unusual on display at their booth: an early masterpiece by Rembrandt van Rijn. The restored painting Blind Tobit with the Return of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael (ca. 1628–29) will be on offer for an asking price around €28 million ($30 million). The oil painting, which has been owned by the same US-based private collection since 1978, was recently restored this past summer and featured in the ...
Oct 7th, 2023 - Picasso painting displayed in London could fetch £98m A Pablo Picasso painting that is set to go on display in London is estimated to sell for over $120m (£98m) at auction. Picasso's 1932 masterpiece, Femme A La Montre, depicts his "golden muse" Marie-Therese Walter, a woman who formed the subject of many of his paintings. The work was owned by art patron and collector Emily Fisher Landau. It will be on display at Sotheby's as part of an exhibition featuring other paintings owned by ...
Sep 13th, 2023 - This fall, the collection of the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau , will come to auction after much anticipation in the market. The grouping of 120 works assembled by Landau, which span paintings by Pablo Picasso , Ed Ruscha, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon and Mark Tansey, among other names, will be sold at Sotheby's this fall on November 8 and 9. Backed with a financial guarantee from the house, the collection is estimated to generate over $400 million. Likely the biggest ticket ...
Sep 12th, 2023 - The amateur sleuth noticed a discrepancy in the orientation of the work compared to its companions. A Hilma af Klint fan who visited the recent af Klint and Piet Mondrian double header exhibition at Tate Modern in London noticed something off about one of the paintings. Was it accidentally hung…upside down? American tourist Katie Boyle was visiting the show with her wife when the eagle-eyed pair noticed that something seemed off about The Swan no. 14. For starters, a triangle at the ...
Sep 8th, 2023 - In 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain worked together in the small Mediterranean town of Collioure. There, the two artists created some of the first works of an audacious, albeit short-lived, movement: Fauvism. Fauvism was experimental and tactile, characterized by "bold, undisguised brushstrokes and high-keyed, vibrant colors directly from the tube," as curator Sabine Rewald wrote in a 2004 essay for the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The movement was also quite divisive: ...
