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Geoffrey Hendricks
Auctions
Yesterday afternoon at Phillips 20th Century and Contemporary Art Sale in New York, a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting sold for $45.3 million. [ARTnews]
Later the same evening, at Christie’s, a Francis Bacon made $49.8 million in a $397.1 million sale. [ARTnews]
NPR catches up on New York’s string of auctions this past week. [NPR]
Artists
Roberta Smith writes of Arthur Jafa’s new sculptures at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, “their scale and density has a beauty and a ferocity that is entirely their own: They are at once tribal, industrial and fetishistically decorated. And they are of a piece with the monumentality and scope of Mr. Jafa’s unfolding elucidation of black American life and art.” [New York Times]
This graphic by CM Campbell walks us through all of the visual references in Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” video. [Hyperallergic]
Check out this back and forth between husband and wife artists Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons, who have concurrent solo shows in New York City. [Artnet news]
Friday Reads
Washington D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery was dissolved in 2012. Here’s where its 10,750 works of art are going. [Washington City Paper]
Last month Bath’s Museum of East Asian Art was robbed. Today, the full list of stolen artifacts has been released. [Art Newspaper]
Tippet Rise Art Center has tapped Francis Kéré to design a pavilion this coming summer. [Archdaily]
Raf Simons’ partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation is going strong, and his Calvin Klein pre-fall collection features several pieces with Warhol prints. [DAZED]
Rest in peace Geoffrey Hendricks, “Cloudsmith.” [Artforum ]
An excerpt from late great art historian Linda Nochlin’s final book, The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century. [New York Times]
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