LACMA Will Present Mark Grotjahn Piece -ARTnews
A post on Mark Grotjahn’s Instagram on April 7, 2018. Last month, the artist Mark Grotjahn posted a series of cryptic images to Instagram—self-portraits adorned with digital scribbles and doodles—that…
New Records for Malevich, Brancusi at Strong $415.8 M. Christie’s Impressionist-Modern Sale -ARTnews
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1916, sold for $85.8 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018 A buoyant sale of Impressionist and modern art at Christie’s New York on Tuesday night earned $415.8…
LAND Founder Shamim M. Momin Heads to Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery to Be Senior Curator -ARTnews
Momin. R. ROSALES Shamim M. Momin, the founding director and curator of Los Angeles Nomadic Division, announced today that she is leaving the public-art nonprofit to become senior curator at…
Selected Artworks by Female Artists from El Museo del Barrio’s Collection’ at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York -ARTnews
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, with Ross Rudesch Harley, Circo de pulgas Cardoso (Cardoso Flea Circus), 1997, video. ©MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO AND ROSS RUDESCH HARLEY, DISTRIBUTED BY VIDEO DATA BANK/COURTESY HUNTER COLLEGE,…
Cui Jie Is Now Represented by Metro Pictures, Pilar Corrias, and Antenna Space -ARTnews
Cui Jie, Shanghai Bank Tower 2, 2017, oil on canvas. COURTESY METRO PICTURES AND PILAR CORRIAS The Shanghai-based artist Cui Jie is now represented by the galleries Metro Pictures (of…
Morning Links: Bad Painting Edition -ARTnews
René Magritte: The Fifth Season, from which the essay in the Paris Review was excerpted. Sotheby’s An uneven $318.3-million Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and modern art in New York…
Movement from This Art World, to That Which Is to Come -ARTnews
James Elder Christie, Vanity Fair, ca. 1895. GLASGOW MUSEUMS “Now as I said, the way to the Celestial City runs directly through this Town with its lusty Fair; and he…
Simon Schama’s ‘Civilizations,’ Neil Grayson, and Dostoevsky as Draftsman -ARTnews
Civilizations host Simon Schama outside Itimad-Ud-Daulah’s Tomb, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, commissioned by Nur Jahan and completed in 1628. COURTESY NUTOPIA LTD AND PBS Civilizations Civilizations, a world-, time-, and…
Aruna D’Souza and Laura Raicovich in Conversation -ARTnews
Laura Raicovich and Aruna D’Souza at Dumpling Galaxy in Flushing, New York. ©KATHERINE MCMAHON Aruna D’Souza is the author of Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts, a new…
Modigliani Nude Makes $157.2 M. in Uneven Impressionist-Modern Sale at Sotheby’s That Totals $318.3 M. -ARTnews
Amedeo Modigliani, Nu couché (sur le côté gauche), 1917, oil on canvas, sold for $157.2 M. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S There was no debate over the star lot in Sotheby’s evening sale…