If you ever find yourself driving coast to coast across the United States, you’ll likely spend a good few hours cutting along the vast cornfields and flat farmlands of the midwest. While waiting for the horizon to never get any closer, a splice of color— a multi-colored wooden square cresting a barn, to be exact— suddenly breaks through the golden browns and dusty greens of the crops.
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October 11th marked the beginning of Art Basel Paris’ third iteration, and with that, came an abundance of exhibitions springing up in the city of love: “Arte Povera,” at La Bourse de Commerce; the major group exhibition “Pop Forever, Tom Wesselman &…”— featuring work by Ai Weiwei, Marcel Duchamp, David Hammons, Hannah Höch, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama,
Returning to magnificent Regent’s Park in the heart of London, the 2024 editions of Frieze London and Frieze Masters brought together over 270 galleries from 43 countries and attracted 90,000 visitors from over 110 nations worldwide.
Celebrating its 20 year anniversary, ARTBO is Colombia’s preeminent fair shining a light on Colombian art of the last 50 years. Welcoming galleries from all over the country, as well as South and Central American and beyond, the fair offers space for collectors on a global level to invest in Colombian art and art largely focused on Latin America.
After years of hanging unsuspectingly in an Italian family home, a portrait that has now been attributed to Pablo Picasso is on the verge of official authentication. The titleless work, thought to be of Picasso’s long-time muse and mistress Dora Maar, was found in 1962 by a man named Luigi Lo Rosso, while cleaning out a cellar in Capri.
In a broad sense, art and science have always occupied two sides of the same coin.
A sense of interconnectedness resides at the heart of mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson’s work. In Seed, to produce the least amount of steel plate waste for her monumental figural “stylized abstractions,” Simpson puzzle-pieced the sections to fit together– in part as “a metaphor for our connection.”
Art dealers, particularly those who have reached the heights of Scottish-born author/gallerist Michael Findlay (b.1945), are not known for openly sharing the nuts and bolts of a profession that thrives on exclusivity and lives and dies by “who-you-know.”
In celebration of The Criterion Collection's 40th birthday party, the archive, streaming service, and boutique blu-ray label has decided to start a new segment of their much beloved video series, "Closet Picks." The project, which first began 14 years ago with inaugural guest Guillermo Del Toro, invites influential members of the film community to pick up to 10 of their favorite films,
