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Christie’s “Staggering” Contemporary Auction Makes Record $853 Million

March 23, 2019

Art In America - As bidding hit $62 million on a blackboard-like Cy Twombly canvas at Christie’s New York on Wednesday night, the normally hushed atmosphere was disrupted. Heads turned as an auction-goer cried ...

KAZAKHSTAN WITHDRAWS FROM 2019 VENICE BIENNALE

Artery

March 23, 2019

Art and Culture, Trending

Art Forum - The Republic of Kazakhstan will no longer make its Venice Biennale debut at the fifty-eighth edition of the exhibition this May. The Art Newspaper reports that the country’s inaugural national pavil...

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Karl Lagerfeld’s final Chanel show is a snowy alpine wonderland

Artery

March 8, 2019

Art and Culture, Trending

de zee - Together the duo designed a snow-buried runway lined with pine trees, lamp posts and 12 Swiss-style chalets with smoking chimneys, creating a "peaceful" mountainous village scene for the alpine ensemb...

Art in Sensitive Times

Artery

March 8, 2019

museum watch, Trending

The Art Newspaper - In the face of this the public art museum (by which I mean an institution that has a statutory as well as a moral responsibility to be of and for the public) has a difficult, but essential r...

Frieze shareholder Endeavor returns $400m investment to Saudi Arabia

Artery

March 8, 2019

Art Fairs, Trending

The Art Newspaper - The deal was struck in April 2018 and gave the Saudi kingdom’s Public Investment Fund an equity stake of less than 10% in Endeavor. But, following the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Kh...

At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays

Artery

March 8, 2019

Art Market, Trending

The New York Times - Along with a handful of other galleries clustered near the entrance to the fair on Pier 94, Tanya Bonakdar was in the first version of the Armory Show 25 years ago. Called The Gramercy Int...

A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture

Artery

February 20, 2019

Art and Society, Trending

Hyperallergic - In April 2011, when a US Ambassador traveled to Azerbaijan, on the southwestern edge of the former USSR, he was denied access to the riverside borderland that separates this South Caucasus natio...

Prominent New York City art dealer Mary Boone leaves court in New York, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, after being sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison after admitting she evaded paying over $3 million in federal taxes. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)

Mary Boone sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax fraud

Artery

February 20, 2019

Art and the Law, Trending

The Art Newspaper - The Manhattan art dealer Mary Boone was sentenced to 30 months in prison by the New York Southern District Court on two counts of tax fraud yesterday. Eligible for up to one year of supervis...

The Secret Sauce Fueling The Next Wave Of Intelligent Technology

Artery

February 20, 2019

Art and Technology, Trending

Forbes - The cloud is now mainstream. In combination with mobile technology, social media, and Big Data, it’s been the driving force behind the digital transformation that’s enabled companies — from established...

THE POWER OF MEMORY AND MYTH

Artery

February 19, 2019

Artists, Trending

Art Forum - The fourteen paintings and drawings that comprise Maia Cruz Palileo’s debut solo exhibition in her native Chicago are, in essence, portraits of the Philippines, imagined as her family had once kno...