[ad_1] Tiny green shoots of recovery have been discernible in a stubbornly bearish art market during London’s marquee auctions this week, but Phillips slim 29-lot evening sale yesterday (6 March) punched below its weight, bringing in £12.2m (£15.4 m with fees) against an estimate of £16.4m to £24.2m. All estimates are calculated without fees. Two works, by Le Corbusier and Lucio Fontana, were withdrawn just before the sale and three failed to find homes. According to the London-based art market analytics firm ArtTactic, just three lots sold above mid-estimate and 25 went below mid-estimate, giving a particularly low confidence indicator…
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[ad_1] What should surely go down as one of literature’s great descriptions of a major urban area is unexpectedly tucked away in a recent My Art Guide booklet. Brett W. Schultz, cofounder and director of one of Mexico City’s prime art fairs, Feria Material, writes of the beloved metropolis, “It’s thirsty, it’s shaking, it’s honking, it’s dusty, it’s calling your mother terrible things, it’s bursting at the seams, and it’s one of the most vibrant, thriving, and life-affirming cities I’ve ever known.” Also known as CDMX (an abbreviation of its official name, Ciudad de México), the city has a metro…
[ad_1] SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — At the center of Daisy Patton’s Before These Witnesses hangs a double swing festooned with fabric flowers. Fashioned from a decrepit sofa the artist found on Craigslist, it frames vintage wedding photos of an anonymous Venezuelan couple that the artist has enlarged, printed on canvas, and embellished with bold acrylic paints. The result is “Untitled (Color Fade Wedding Couple with Purple Background and Green Vines)” (2024), an enchanted assemblage which projects both joy and grief. Visitors to the exhibition — which focuses on the theme of weddings — will feel its emotional impact as…
[ad_1] In a cramped basement space in New York’s SculptureCenter in early February, ventriloquist Sophia Becker adjusted the metal legs of a doll with long black hair, a single guarache made from metal, and an underwear-like piece made from medical materials that looks oddly fashionable. “Oh god that feels good,” the doll chirped in a girlish voice, before complaining that she’s stiff from a lack of play. “The lookers come but they don’t touch. I wish they would touch!” Becker was on hand for a one-night-only performance activating the exhibition, “Ideal Space for Music,” by Mexico-based artist-duo Hanya Beliá and…
[ad_1] A major collection of Old Master paintings, built up over decades by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, is poised to shatter auction records this May at Sotheby’s New York. Estimated to be worth $80 million–$120 million, the collection features works by artists such as Jan Davidsz. de Heem and Luis Meléndez and is being billed as the most valuable single-owner collection of Old Master paintings ever to appear at auction.A total of 56 paintings will be sold, the majority in a dedicated sale on May 21st—“Elegance & Wonder: Masterpieces from the Collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders…
[ad_1] A new report published by the Cultural Policy Unit—an independent UK think tank—says that introducing admission charges for international visitors at UK national museums would be “logistically complex as well as ideologically at odds with the global collections that the UK has accumulated”.Last July Mark Jones, the former interim director of the British Museum, said that an admission fee of £20 should be introduced for overseas visitors. “It would make sense for us to charge overseas visitors for admission to museums as they charge us when we visit their museums. The biggest visitor attractions in Britain are our great…
[ad_1] Beware: A colossal spider now guards a large patch of dense Thai woodland. The iconic Louise Bourgeoise sculpture, Maman, is joined by works by Richard Long, Elmgreen and Dragset at Khao Yai Art Forest, an ambitious new 161-acre art destination a three-hour drive from Bangkok. The art forest, located nea Khao Yai National Park, aims to create a healing experience blending art and nature. It is the brainchild of philanthropist and art patron Marisa Chearavanont, who has become one of the driving forces of Thailand’s vibrant art scene in recent years. Along with Kunsthalle Bangkok, a new art institution…
[ad_1] I have this vague, flickering memory of neon orange billowing impossibly through threadbare trees like the penumbric trails of large, unseasonal fireflies. I would’ve been seven years old when the late Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed “The Gates” — 7,503 16-foot gates adorned with fabric flowing along 23 miles of walkways — for 16 days in Central Park in 2005. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City, a pay-what-you-wish exhibition at the Shed, memorializes the temporary project — 26 years in the making — on its 20th anniversary. It consists of preparatory drawings and collages, video interviews…
[ad_1] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ACLU SUES NEA OVER GENDER CLAUSE. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), claiming that its new policy requiring that its funding applicants do not “promote gender ideology” will limit what kinds of works can be shown, reports Alex Greenberger for ARTnews. On Thursday, the ACLU’s Rhode Island offshoot filed a lawsuit on behalf of several theaters, which said that the policy adopted after President Donald Trump’s January executive order was an “unlawful and unconstitutional exercise of executive power…
[ad_1] ArtOlivia HornPortrait of Alfie Caine with, from left to right, Golden Hills, 2025; Nine Legs, 2025; and Chalk Horse, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Bassett. Courtesy of the artist and Margot Samel, NYC.Some boys collect Hot Wheels, some collect comic books. Alfie Caine collected miniature chairs. When the rising painter was growing up in London, he funneled a precocious love of furniture into acquiring dollhouse-sized models of iconic designs, like the Prouvé Standard Chair and the Eames LCW Lounge. He arranged them into imagined rooms on shelves in his bedroom—foreshadowing the pristine, just-so interiors that would later become the focus…