A Look at the Art Market’s Troubles, NFT Mayhem Mounts, and More: Morning Links from March 16, 2021
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Marilyn Monroe
A Nightclub Goddess Dishes on Her Life: Grace Jones Finally Wrote Her Memoirs
The title of Grace Jones’s memoir, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs (Gallery Books), is lifted from the first line of her song “The Art Groupie,” off side two of her fifth album, Nightclubbing. You…
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Catching up with Mr. Time
The National Portrait Gallery spotlights the work of Boris Chaliapin, who created hundreds of magazine covers in lightning speed
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Trash Treasure: Nate Lowman’s Selective Memory
New York artist Nate Lowman's iconophilic paintings, sculpture and bricolage have a story of cultural alienation to tell. "I love language, and I love the failure of language," Lowman told A.i.A. "To…
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Marilynmania
From photographs and Warhol paintings to the dress she wore to serenade JFK, objects associated with Marilyn Monroe are in high demand.
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From the Archives: Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol
What this body of paintings adds up to is a kind of peinture noire in the sense that we apply the term to the film-noir genre of the '40s and early '50s—a stark, disabused, pessimistic vision of…
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RobbReport
Want to Cruise the OC? This $40 Million Newport Beach Home Has a 20-Car Garage
WWD
Paula Nickolds to Lead Sainsbury’s Clothing, General Product Division
Rolling Stone
Andrew W.K. Gets Freaky With His Clones in ‘I’m in Heaven’ Video
Sportico
NBC to Launch Olympics Twitch Channel for Interactive Games
SPY