A Timeline of Attempts to Fix the Art World
From the founding of the Louvre in 1793 to the emergence of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles in 2012 to the start in 2013 of GCC, a collective focusing on contemporary Gulf culture, this…
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Almine Rech Discusses Expansion of Her Gallery Empire, as Upper East Side Space Opens
It seems like we were just doing this, previewing a new orb in French dealer Almine Rech’s constellation of galleries. Ah, right, that’s because we were! Earlier this month, we were watching…
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Christie’s to Open Chinese Flagship in Beijing
This Saturday, Christie’s will open a new flagship space in Beijing, which will be the auction house’s third permanent location in China, after opening in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The new space…
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Muse: Pentimenti
An émigré to New York, Russian-born painter Sanya Kantarovsky argues for the fluid openness to pictorial change that he perceives in the half-obscured surface traces left by such masters as Leonardo…
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Works From the Late Olga Hirshhorn’s Collection Will Go to Artis—Naples, Cultural Organization in Naples, Florida
The estate of art collector Olga Hirshhorn (the widow of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who founded the eponymous museum in Washington, D.C.) announced today that it…
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‘Some People Think What I’ve Done Is Almost Sacrilege’: A Talk with Jeff Koons
Bill Powers: How do you see the “Gazing Ball” paintings as being on a continuum with the “Gazing Ball” sculptures? Jeff Koons: With the sculpture, you feel a constant polarity between…
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Inequality Endures: The Price of Being a Female Artist in 2015
An annual overview of how female artists and their work fared over the past year in the marketplace and the broader art world. Here is the 2014 edition. “Is the Pope Catholic?” Marilyn…
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Morning Links: Stabbing at Art Basel Edition
A stabbing occurred at Art Basel Miami Beach on Friday night. At 5:15 p.m., a woman stabbed another visitor to the fair with an X-Acto knife, saying, “I had to kill her and two more!”…
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“Picasso Sculpture”
What was sculpture to the protean Picasso? As the current survey at the Museum of Modern Art makes clear, it was a markedly “episodic” pursuit, which resulted in over 600 sculptures and hundreds of ce…
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Shakespearean Fish
The retrospective of the endlessly inventive 79-year-old artist Frank Stella opens today (Oct. 30) at the Whitney Museum. Twenty-five years ago, in our October 1990 issue, a sculpture from Stella's…
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