A Recent Book Explores What It Means to Write without Meaning
What—and how—does meaningless writing mean?
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Pace, Gagosian, Acquavella Beat Out Auction Houses to Sell Donald Marron’s Storied Collection
In a move led by Pace’s Marc Glimcher, three galleries have beat out the auction houses to sell works from the collection of Donald B. Marron, the prominent collector and financier who died in Decembe…
Phillips Nets $99.9 M. at Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Led by $10.2 M. de Kooning
The sale set new artist records for Nicholas Party, Tomoo Gokita, and Dana Schutz.
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Cursed Images: Netflix’s Art-World Satire
A painter's ghost inhabits other people's artworks, as if it's not a sited haunting but a viral curse.
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Wool Gathering: Janine and J. Tomilson Hill’s Dreams for Their Exemplary Collection Overlooking the High Line
The couple has assembled a world-class collection of more than 400 works, valued at over $800 million, that include modern, contemporary, Old Master, and Renaissance objects.
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Can Connoisseurship Survive in the Digital Age?
A collector reflects on a time before the data stream flooded over.
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Maximum Minimalism: Emily and Mitchell Rales’s Glenstone Museum Grows
With the completion of a roughly 200,000-square-foot expansion, the D.C.-area institution will rank as one of the most ambitious private museums in the world.
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Sotheby’s Pulls in $66.5 M. at Sleepy Contemporary Sale in London, Led by $8.4 M. Twombly
But a Basquiat estimated to sell for as much as $11.8 million failed to find a buyer.
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Fall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
A concise guide for notable exhibitions through December
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American Beauty: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Case of the Missing Flag
Robert Rauschenberg kept only one major example of his earliest, most influential body of work, the Combine paintings he made between 1954 and 1961. Short Circuit (1955) is similar to other works…
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Emmy submissions: 35 entries include Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski and 15 other actors
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Ratings: SmackDown Hits Fox Lows, Dick Van Dyke Leads Night in Audience
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You can hire this UV-blasting robot to destroy coronavirus for you
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Neil Young on His Music at Trump’s Mount Rushmore Rally: ‘This Is NOT OK With Me’
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