Morning Links: George Clinton Edition -ARTnews
George Clinton onstage in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2015. CORYHARRIS94/WIKIMEDIA Collecting At the Rockefeller sale last night at Christie’s in New York, a Diego Rivera painting sold for $9.76 million,…
Diego Rivera Painting Sells for $9.76 M., New Record for Latin American Art at Auction, in Christie’s Second Rockefeller Sale -ARTnews
Diego Rivera, The Rivals, 1931, oil on canvas, sold for $9.76 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018 Last night in a jam-packed salesroom at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan,…
Rose Period Picasso Sells for $115.1 M. in White Glove Rockefeller Sale That Totals $646.1 M. -ARTnews
Pablo Picasso’s Fillette à la corbeille fleurie (1905) sold for $115.1 million. © CHRISTIE’S In 1968, David Rockefeller was part of an unusual syndicate formed by a small band of…
Morning Links: Rockefeller Auction Edition -ARTnews
The Rockefeller auction was a “white glove sale” in which all lots sold. COURTESY PIXABAY News The big Rockefeller sale at Christie’s last night pulled in $646.1 million, with records…
Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Kay Takeda Senior Director of Artist Programs -ARTnews
Takeda. COURTESY KAY TAKEDA New York’s Joan Mitchell Foundation has tapped Kay Takeda to be its new senior director of artist programs. Takeda joins the foundation this June, stepping down…
Angie Jennings at Abode Gallery, Los Angeles -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Angie Jennings: Extinct Paradise,” 2018, at Abode Gallery. IAN BYERS-GAMBER Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.…
Finland Taps Miracle Workers Collective for 2019 Venice Biennale -ARTnews
Outi Pieski, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Christopher Wessels, and Lorenzo Sandoval. FRAME There’s Venice Biennale news in over the transom today, with Frame Contemporary Art Finland, which…
Morning Links: Risqué Tunic Edition -ARTnews
An SFW tunic by Rick Owens. COURTESY RICK OWENS At the Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s latest Costume Institute show, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” is finally…
Fore! Calder’s Portrait of John D. Rockefeller Golfing Heads to Auction -ARTnews
Alexander Calder, The Golfer (John D. Rockefeller), ca. 1927. COURTESY CHRISTIE’S For those who miss out on the chance to buy works from the Peggy and David Rockefeller collection in…
Printed Matter Plans East Village Location in Swiss Institute’s New Home -ARTnews
Printed Matter was started in 1976. In the photo above, a small slice of its vast offerings is being enjoyed. PRINTED MATTER A nice little art-bookstore boomlet seems to be…