‘Portrait of the Artist (Pool With Two Figures)’ Edition -ARTnews
David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972, sold for $90.3 million, a record for a living artist at auction. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018 Auction Season A…
Get Your Life!—Video Series Helmed by Middle Schoolers—Comes to the City’s Art Museum -ARTnews
A portion of the Get Your Life! crew in 2014. GET YOUR LIFE Since 2014, the youth-led Baltimore production company Get Your Life! has put out a vibrant array of…
Ray Johnson at Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Ray Johnson, Untitled Mailing (to Alan Lindenfeld) , n.d., mixed media. ©RAY JOHNSON/COURTESY GUILD HALL Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show…
Shandaken Projects Names Artists for Inaugural Residency Program on New York’s Governors Island -ARTnews
(From left) Tourmaline, Kavita Kulkarni, Marie Lorenz, Candystore, and Alicia Grullón. COURTESY SHANDAKEN PROJECTS Shandaken Projects and the Trust for Governors Island have named the New York–based artists who will…
Irish Museum of Modern Art Names Annie Fletcher Director -ARTnews
Annie Fletcher. NIEK TIJSSE KLASEN Annie Fletcher will be the new director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. She will begin in her new position at the…
Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Mirror Room’ and ‘Narcissus Garden’ to Be Shown in Las Vegas -ARTnews
Yayoi Kusama, Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009, Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED, and aluminum installation. ©YAYOI KUSAMA/COURTESY OTA FINE ARTS, TOKYO, SINGAPORE, AND SHANGHAI, AND VICTORIA MIRO, LONDON AND…
Joan Jonas Commission for 2015 Venice Biennale to Make U.S. Premiere in San Francisco -ARTnews
Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word, “Wind.” ©2018 JOAN JONAS/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK They Come to Us Without a Word, the multimedia installation created by…
New Artwork by Jordan Eagles Considers ‘Salvator Mundi’ in the Context of Today -ARTnews
Jordan Eagles, Jesus, Christie’s (detail), 2018, Christie’s sale catalogue, medical tubes, needles, and blood in plexiglass and UV resin. COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST One year ago today, Leonardo da Vinci’s…
Record-Smashing $91.9 M. Edward Hopper Buoys On-Target ‘American Place’ Sale at Christie’s, with $317.8 M. Total -ARTnews
Edward Hopper, Chop Suey, 1929, sold for $91.9 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018 A highly anticipated single-owner sale of American modern art meticulously collected by the late Barney A. Ebsworth,…
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Is Owner of Basquiat Painting Yoko Ono Sold at Sotheby’s for $11 M. -ARTnews
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Cabra,1981–82, on view at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. ARTNEWS In November 2017, Yoko Ono sold her Jean-Michel Basquiat painting Cabra, painted in 1981–82, at Sotheby’s in New York.…