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Market
Christie’s fared well last night in its biggest Post-War and Contemporary sale in years, netting $448.1 million with a 96-percent sell-through rate. Get all the details in Nate Freeman’s freshly minted ARTnews report. [ARTnews]
A chronicle of the “combination of raw talent, compelling biography, and limited supply” that made Jean-Michel Basquiat such a market darling—with a $60 million painting on the auction block at Sotheby’s tonight. [The New York Times]
Artists
Joan Jonas’s show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise uptown gets a rave. [Village Voice]
A look into the “never-ending party” in the work of Florine Stettheimer. [The New York Review of Books]
A show of 98 paintings by Frederick Hammersley in L.A. is a tribute to an artist with an affinity for “transforming snuggly abutted blobs and eccentrically interlocked slabs of supersaturated color into odd compositions abuzz with befuddling possibilities.” [Los Angeles Times]
Jason Shulman makes photo works of entire movies condensed into one image via verrrryyy lllloooooonnngg exposures, starring such films as Alice in Wonderland, Deep Throat, Taxi Driver, and more. [The Guardian]
“Throbbing Gristle Founder Explores Porn as Art in Memoir”—delight in tales of Cosey Fanni Tutti. [Rolling Stone]
Diane?
The Times has flooded the zone with coverage surrounding the return this weekend of David Lynch’s TV-seizing surrealist-noir fantasia Twin Peaks. [The New York Times]
Bone up with an appreciation of the severely underrated series prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a familiarity with which Lynch has said will help viewers of the episodes to come. [The Ringer]
Misc.
France’s newly appointed culture minister, Françoise Nyssen, has worked for 30 years as the head of the family-run Actes Sud publishing house behind books by Nobel-winning novelist Svetlana Alexievich and about artists including Sophie Calle, Giuseppe Penone, and Michelangelo Pistoletto. [The Art Newspaper]
Don’t want to commit to hanging your art? Just lean it or put it on a shelf! Find some more tips for sprucing up the place. [Architectural Digest]