by October Gallery
Thomas Bompard. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S Thomas Bompard, a veteran of Sotheby’s since 2001, has been named the new chairman of Sotheby’s West Coast and a senior specialist in the auction house’s…
Galas at the premiere of Schrei 27. LORENZO DIAZ One recent Friday, at Performance Space New York’s premiere of the film installation Schrei 27—a collaboration between the legendary avant-garde vocalist…
Pictures at an Exhibition Adel Abidin, History Wipes (still), 2018. MARTIN JÄGER/©ADEL ABIDIN Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Adel Abidin:…
Kansas City, Missouri. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Forty visual artists from ten countries have been chosen to exhibit their work at Open Spaces 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. Other artists from…
Street view of 99 Cent Fine Arts CHARLES BENTON The gallery 99 Cents Fine Art on Canal Street in New York is hosting a recovered section of Keith Haring’s Untitled…
Jori Bennett. COURTESY BURCH PARTNERS ArtPrize, the open art competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with more than $500,000 awarded to participating artists each year, appointed Jori Bennett as executive director.…
Yo La Tengo, with Ira Kaplan at center. COURTESY MATADOR RECORDS “Muses” is a column for which creators from different disciplines reveal sources of artistic inspiration and instigation. The beloved…
An audience at Expo Chicago’s /Dialogues program in 2017. COURTESY EXPO CHICAGO The Expo Chicago art fair is expanding its programming for 2018, with an off-site edition of its “/Dialogues”…
Norman Rockwell, Shuffleton’s Barbershop, 1950. In February, when the embattled Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, announced it had reached an agreement with the state’s attorney general to sell as many…
Not a dinner set, but rather an English wicker picnic hamper from the early 20th century, being sold at Christie’s from the Rockefeller Collection. Its estimate: $5,000 to $10,000. CHRISTIE’S…