Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records
NY. Times - A museum’s worth of masterworks from the Microsoft co-founder’s collection are offered in a two-part charity sale. Five topped $100 million. - read more ...
Vanitas at Kate Werble Gallery
Vanitas at Kate Werble Gallery
by Sara Blazej
Edited by Serge Gregorian
An Artery Exclusive
Its been a while since we’ve seen an art exhibition attempt to update the 17th century Dutch paint...
Lucian Freud, Stripped of Fame and Scandal
NY TIMES - A major London exhibition asks viewers to put aside the details of the artist’s tumultuous life and concentrate on his paintings. - read more
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Energy crisis’ long night told by the photos of Berlin in the dark
DOMUS - It may not be The City That Never Sleeps or the Ville Lumière, but Berlin is still the largest, best-known, best-loved and most imitated city in Germany (itself the largest economy in Europe), and seei...
Microsoft’s open-source design for Pride flag incorporates 40 communities
de zeen - Microsoft has created a kaleidoscopic new version of the Pride flag that represents 40 different LGBTQIA+ communities and can evolve to include even more. - read more ...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s last work will be funded through NFTs
DOMUS - The Mastaba, the last great work by the two artists – carried out by Christo’s nephew, Vladimir Yavachev – unlike all their other projects, is set to be permanent. - read more ...
The painter who revealed how our eyes really see the world
BBC - In 1881, Paul Gauguin joked about how to extract Cézanne's mysterious methods, instructing Camille Pissarro to "ply him with one of those mysterious homeopathic drugs and come straight to Paris to share t...
Oops! Famous Mondrian Painting Hung Upside Down for 75 Years
Hyperallergic - In news that is sure to delight detractors of modern art, an abstract painting by Piet Mondrian at a German museum was found to have been hanging upside down ever since it was first exhibited — ...
Ten photography exhibitions not to be missed this fall
domus - A major fall comeback is expected in Paris from November 8. The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is attempting to bring together two great and highly celebrated authors of the 20th century, Henri Cartier...
Artists Are Hit Hard by Europe’s Twinned Energy and Inflation Crises
artnet news - One silver lining in an otherwise bleak situation is that many had already cut back on production costs during the pandemic. - read more ...