[ad_1] President Emmanuel Macron of France was not happy about a recent exhibition at an art centre on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe that showed him beheaded with his neck dripping in blood.The gory piece was included in the exhibition Exposé.e.s au chlordécone (exposed to chlordecone), which opened in January at the Centre des Arts in Pointe-à-Pitre. According to local press, the Kolèktif Rézistans collective, a trio of artists, organised the headline-hitting exhibition, which the French government considers “an incitement to violence”.The French newspaper Midi Libre says that an artist called Blow made the work, which raises concerns about…
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[ad_1] A version of this article originally appeared in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy. Artnet News Pro members get exclusive access—subscribe now to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Friday. Though the sun was out all week in London during the first marquee auctions of the year, a chill in the market persists. Here are the top takeaways. (Keep your jacket on.) Size Matters Christie’s more than doubled its rival Sotheby’s total across its evening sales. Sotheby’s had a much smaller offering, and some have speculated that…
[ad_1] The Corning Museum of Glass selected New Zealand-based artist Te Rongo Kirkwood as the winner of the 38th Rakow Commission. Kirkwood is known for her vibrant and evocative works of kiln-formed glass that explore themes of her Māori, English, and Scottish heritage and identity.The commissioned installation, The Seer, the Seen, the Seeing, is comprised of three main elements: a kākahu (cloak), made of kiln-formed glass and woven fibers; a puru hau (sacred ritual vessel) in blown glass; and a film. The cloak and vessel are key components of a filmed ceremony centering Kirkwood and her father, set against the…
[ad_1] Ricardo Scofidio, an architect who helped reshape the museum landscape in the US, died on Thursday at 89. His death was announced by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the firm he founded with his wife Elizabeth Diller in 1997. Working alongside Diller and firm partner Charles Renfro, Scofidio worked on many US museum projects, from the Museum of Modern Art‘s 2019 expansion to a building for the Broad, the Los Angeles private museum of collectors Eli and Edythe Broad. The firm’s various projects included any number of projects that were not museums: Lincoln Center, redesigned with new outdoor spaces at…
[ad_1] Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton will curate an exhibition showcasing the work of British artist and designer Marianna Kennedy at Christie’s Paris. Organized by PLVR Zurich, the show will take place from May 5th to 11th. The exhibition, “Supersonic Mediaeval,” will highlight Kennedy’s innovative use of materials like resin, wood, bronze, and Murano glass and emphasize the influence of London’s Spitalfields neighborhood on her career. It will showcase a collection of the artist’s most significant works, notably her carved and gilded mirrors, which she began creating in 2006.“Marianna’s work has always sprung from and lived in, for me, a particularly…
[ad_1] On 3 March, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) announced the initiation of a voluntary repatriation to Nepal. The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda, will be returned to its home country after provenance research at the museum unearthed new details of its origin. The AIC proactively contacted the Embassy of Nepal in Washington, DC, after discovering that the work had been stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley. (The AIC’s provenance-research team is one of the largest in the US.)“This return reflects the importance of provenance research, as…
[ad_1] Swedish researchers are hoping to excavate a potentially very informative shipwreck from near Stockholm, one that speaks to an era in the 15th century, when ships were carrying increasingly heavy armaments on board and shipbuilders were in a race to build ever-sturdier vessels. Located in Landfjärden near Häringe, south of Stockholm, the ship measures 115 feet long and 33 feet wide, and may date as far back as the 1460s. Researchers with Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, are working hard to see what the ship may reveal. “The ship’s frame still rises high above the seabed, and in…
[ad_1] Deborah Kass, left to right, “Making Men 4” (1992) and “Puff Piece” (1992)Deborah Kass created the Art History Paintings out of frustration at not seeing herself in the halls of museums even as she fell in love with the work of the artists themselves. That contradictory dynamic of attraction and repulsion is what gives these paintings their power, as her biting critiques are tempered by her humor, and her formalist sensibility marries disparate parts to create searing attacks on the history of exclusion.There’s a curious image of a headless, chestless, and armless Lucy van Pelt from the popular Peanuts…
[ad_1] At times, it can feel like auction house specialists are part of a cult whose mantra is, ““High-quality, well-priced, fresh-to-market artworks will always sell.” On Wednesday, in London, Christie’s Tessa Lord was the latest to adopt the cliché after the auction house’s 20th/21st Century evening sale generated a respectable £82.1 million, on a high estimate of £93 million. Immediately following, Christie’s held its annual “The Art of the Surreal” sale, which smashed the high estimate of £38.98 million, generating over £48 million. That brought the night’s total to £130.1 million Related Articles “One of the defining characteristics of [mid-season…
[ad_1] Art MarketMaxwell RabbLee ShinJa, installation view of “Weaving the Dawn” at Tina Kim Gallery, New York, 2024. Photo by Hyunjung Rhee. Courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery. The art world has long operated under a patriarchal gaze, often sidelining the contributions of women whose accolades, if given, often arrive decades late. The feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls once pointed this out in their 1988 manifesto The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, stating that a woman’s career—if acknowledged—might only take off in their eighties. Indeed, many artists have waited until their nineties, or were not appreciated properly until after their…