[ad_1] To witness the launch of the media artist Refik Anadol’s AI-powered generative art installation, Living Architecture: Gehry, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao—projected on the towering interior walls of Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece as part of the exhibition in situ: Refik Anadol—is to be reminded of the long history of architect’s visionary dreams.It is a history that ranges from the weightless Baroque of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s multi-level “capricci”; to the monumental spheres and pyramids of the 18th-century visionaries Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and Etienne-Louis Boullée; and to the neo-Classicist CR Cockerell’s sublime The Professor’s Dream (1848), a receding vision, covering Ancient Egypt…
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[ad_1] Our weekly news roundup is an extension of Paint Drippings, which drops first 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 this in your inbox every Friday. Art Fairs – NADA New York announced 111 galleries that will exhibit at its 11th edition in May, including newcomers like Gallery Common (Tokyo), Galerie Noah Klink (Berlin), and Dohing Art (Seoul). The fair will have a new location this year: the Starrett-Lehigh Building in the West Chelsea gallery district. (Press…
[ad_1] So you think you know Mucha? Printmaking? The ravenous classism of the art world? This month, our editors and contributors invite you to question what you think you know. Senior Editor Hakim Bishara takes a look at the first English-language translation of a book of photos by Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain with text by poet Pablo Neruda, while Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang reads critic Lucy Lippard’s collection of experimental fiction. Read on for more recommendations, including Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian on Tamara Lanier’s moving memoir chronicling her fight to reclaim daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard University and…
[ad_1] New York is a pretty sick town. Not in the “bro, that’s sick” way. Morbid, ill, macabre. The sickness has a lot to do with how disastrously emphasized the “New” in “New York” is with each passing generation. Forget what came before you. Just accept that things change. Enjoy the present while it lasts. While eating at the new New York restaurant Manuela in SoHo, I had only one thought: Our present sucks. To be blunt: Manuela is quite nice. The food is obviously excellent; even better are the people who work there. It’s the streets around it that…
[ad_1] Shahzia Sikander—named one of Artsy’s most influential artists of 2024—is showcasing a major exhibition across two premier Ohio Museums: the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM). The mid-career survey, titled “Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior,” features nearly 100 artworks spanning 35 years. These shows will run concurrently—at CMA through June 8th and at CAM through May 4th. Sikander first presented “Collective Behavior” during the 2024 Venice Biennale at a collateral exhibition at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. Now, this exhibition has been split into two shows, both in Ohio. The show features her breakthrough paintings illustrating…
[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…
[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…