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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 8, 2025 visibility 22 link 9 artists

nairy baghramian katarzyna kobro isamu noguchi wiels brussels

Nairy Baghramian's exhibition "nameless" at Wiels in Brussels engages in a sculptural dialogue with the Polish avant-garde artist Katarzyna Kobro, whose work was largely destroyed during and after World War II. Baghramian riffs on Kobro's forms with unpainted steel variations that double as plinths for her own works, while also referencing other displaced sculptors such as Isamu Noguchi, Louise Bourgeois, and Jean Arp. The show deliberately leaves works untitled and undated, inviting viewers to discover art-historical references while enjoying the material playfulness of the sculptures.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 5, 2025 visibility 19 link 1 artist

diana ross performance alex prager art basel miami beach

Diana Ross performed an intimate 20-minute set at a dinner celebrating Alex Prager's immersive installation 'Mirage Factory' during Art Basel Miami Beach. The event, held in a green room evoking Griffith Park, featured Ross singing hits from her Supremes days and solo career. Prager's installation, located in the old Beach Theatre on Lincoln Road, includes a 1:12 scale miniature of Hollywood Boulevard and was created with Capital One and the Cultivist. A performance based on Prager's photograph 'Beverly Palms Hotel' (2025) also took place, with actors embodying characters from the image.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 20 link 5 artists

beeple pooping robot dogs at art basel miami beach

At Art Basel Miami Beach, digital artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) debuted a new installation titled "Regular Animals" in the fair's Zero10 digital art section. The work features a pen of robot dogs fitted with lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Bezos, and Beeple himself. The robots wander, twitch, and periodically tip backward to eject printed images from their backsides, satirizing the algorithmic nature of digital platforms. The installation drew large crowds, with visitors like Courtney Karnez describing it as a "guilty pleasure" and a communal spectacle. By the end of the first VIP day, all editions of the robots had sold for $100,000 each.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 2, 2025 visibility 14 link 12 artists

barbra streisand regrets selling gustav klimt

Barbra Streisand posted on Instagram expressing regret over selling Gustav Klimt's "Ria Munk on her Deathbed" (1912), which she owned for 30 years. The post came three days after another Klimt portrait set a record at auction. Streisand bought the painting in 1969 for $17,000 and sold it in 1999, explaining she had shifted her interest to Frank Lloyd Wright and the Arts & Crafts movement.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 25, 2025 visibility 20 link 16 artists

julia stoschek foundation los angeles show

The Julia Stoschek Foundation, one of the world's largest collections of video art, will present its first major U.S. exhibition at the Variety Arts Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Titled "What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem" and curated by Udo Kittelmann, the show opens February 6, 2026, pairing contemporary video works by artists such as Marina Abramović, Dara Birnbaum, Cyprien Gaillard, Arthur Jafa, Jesper Just, and Lu Yang with historic films by Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alice Guy-Blaché, Winsor McCay, and Georges Méliès. The exhibition spans 120 years of filmmaking and will occupy a historic 1920s Venetian-style landmark that once housed L.A.'s first women's clubhouse and a vaudeville theater.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 21, 2025 visibility 16 link 10 artists

phillips evening sale 2025 stats

Phillips held its Modern and contemporary art evening sale in New York on Wednesday night, achieving $67.3 million in total sales—a 24.4 percent increase from the same auction last November. The sale featured 33 lots with a 94 percent sell-through rate, including a triceratops fossil that sold for $5.4 million through a partnership with natural history dealer Christian Link. Top lots included Francis Bacon's *Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer* (1967) at $16 million with premium, Jean-Michel Basquiat's *Exercise* (1984) at $3.8 million, and two works by Ruth Asawa. Only one artwork, a Jadé Fadojutimi, failed to sell, and there were no withdrawals.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 20, 2025 visibility 17 link 9 artists

churchill painting hudsons bay company auction

The Hudson's Bay Company, a historic Canadian department store chain that declared bankruptcy in March, began selling off its art collection. On November 19, 27 paintings from the retailer's trove were auctioned by Canadian auction house Heffel, all selling well above estimate. The top lot was an impressionistic painting of a Marrakech street by Winston Churchill, which sold for $1.5 million, more than tripling its low estimate. Other notable sales included Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith's 'Lights of a City Street' at $691,250 and works by William von Moll Berczy and Charles Pachter.

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klimt waldabhang unterach attersee lauder sale

Gustav Klimt's landscape painting *Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee* (1916) sold for $70.8 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday night, hammering at $61 million. The work was the third Klimt painting sold by Sotheby's from the collection of the late mega-collector Leonard A. Lauder, and was the first Klimt landscape Lauder ever purchased. The sale comes after Lauder's other Klimt landscapes achieved record prices, including *Blumenwiese* ($86 million) and his portrait of Elisabeth Lederer ($236.4 million).

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trending_up market schedule Nov 18, 2025 visibility 16 link 8 artists

kurt cobain nirvana guitar christies

A 1969 Fender Competition Mustang guitar owned by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is being auctioned by Christie's in March, with an estimated price of $2.5–$5 million. The guitar was used on the albums *Nevermind* and *In Utero*, as well as in the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and numerous live performances. It is part of the Jim Irsay Collection, assembled by the late Indianapolis Colts owner, which includes instruments from John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, and others.

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article culture schedule Nov 18, 2025 visibility 18 link 14 artists

coreen simpson aperture monograph

Coreen Simpson, an 83-year-old photographer born in Brooklyn in 1942, is the subject of a new eponymous monograph published by Aperture as part of its Vision and Justice Book Series. The book surveys five decades of her work, spanning street photography, fashion photography, studio portraits in Harlem, images of the early hip-hop scene, and later collage experiments. Simpson is known for merging fashion and social photography, capturing both celebrities like Muhammad Ali, Toni Morrison, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as unnamed individuals in her series “Nitebirds/Nightlife,” all with a frontal, confident gaze that emphasizes the subject's self-presentation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 19 link 6 artists

judson memorial church peoples flag show anniversary

Three artists—Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche, and Jon Hendricks—organized "The People's Flag Show" at Judson Memorial Church in New York's Greenwich Village in November 1970, protesting the Vietnam War and challenging US flag desecration laws. The exhibition featured around 150 artists via open call, including Yvonne Rainer, Kate Millett, and the Guerrilla Art Action Group. On November 13, 1970, Ringgold, Toche, and Hendricks were arrested and fined $100 for flag desecration; their case was later dismissed with help from the American Civil Liberties Union. Now, 55 years later, Judson Commons—the church's nonprofit arts arm—is mounting a new version of the exhibition, again via open call, featuring over 60 artists and a week of programming in the Judson Gym.

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article news schedule Nov 4, 2025 visibility 14 link 3 artists

norman rockwell family speaks out about department of homeland security misuse of artwork

The descendants of Norman Rockwell have publicly condemned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for using reproductions of Rockwell's paintings on social media to promote anti-immigrant rhetoric. Since August, DHS posts on X, Instagram, and Facebook have featured Rockwell's works such as "Salute the Flag" (1971), "Working on the Statue of Liberty" (1946), and "And Daniel Boone Comes to Life on the Underwood Portable" (1923), overlaid with captions like "Protect our American way of life" and "Protect your homeland and defend your culture." The Rockwell family responded with an op-ed in USA Today, arguing that the artist would have been "devastated" by this misuse, and provided context about his later civil rights-themed works.

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article news schedule Oct 29, 2025 visibility 15 link 7 artists

jfk terminal one artist commissions

Seven artists—Kelly Akashi, Firelei Báez, Julie Curtiss, Woody De Othello, Tomás Saraceno, Ilana Savdie, and Yinka Shonibare—have been commissioned to create public artworks for the new $9.5 billion Terminal One at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The terminal will open in phases starting in 2026, with completion expected by 2030. The works, presented under the banner "We Travel Under One Sky," include sculptures, mosaics, murals, and a suspended installation, many of which explore themes of migration and New York's history. The program is organized by Culture Corps as part of a larger cultural initiative for the airport.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 28, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist

salvador dali necklace sea sothebys surrealism sale

A Salvador Dalí-designed necklace, the Swirling Sea Necklace, sold for €736,600 ($858,500) at Sotheby's 'Surrealism and Its Legacy' auction on October 24, doubling its pre-sale estimate. The 18-karat gold piece, inlaid with diamonds, a cultured pearl, and sapphire and emerald beads, was conceived by Dalí in 1954 and first owned by São Schlumberger, a frequent patron of the artist. The necklace had previously sold at Sotheby's in 2014 for $665,000 to Anne Schlumberger, who died in April, prompting its return to auction.

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barnett newman mayoral run new york city

A new biography titled *Barnett Newman: Here*, written by art historian Amy Newman, reveals that the Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman ran for mayor of New York City in 1933—long before he became a famous artist. At age 28, with no paintings to his name, Newman campaigned on a vague, socialist-utopian platform that included a free city-run art school, waterfront parks, cleaner waters, and public ownership of utilities. He ran specifically to oppose the spread of Communism among intellectuals, but he admitted he did not expect to win. He lost, and his candidacy became a family joke.

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candle obituary schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 13 link 8 artists

artist drew struzan star war harry potter movie posters dies 78

Drew Struzan, the artist behind iconic movie posters for franchises like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Indiana Jones, died on October 13 at age 78 after a battle with Alzheimer's. His wife, writer Dylan Struzan, announced the news on Instagram, noting his daily engagement with the works of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. Struzan studied under Lorser Feitelson at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and was influenced by Impressionists as well as Renaissance masters like Michelangelo and Pontormo.

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article news schedule Oct 1, 2025 visibility 15 link 5 artists

judge denies motion to dismiss swizz beatz 1mdb case

A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss music producer and art collector Kasseem Dean, known as Swizz Beatz, from a bankruptcy case tied to the 1MDB scandal. Dean and his two companies, Monza Studios and Swizz Beatz Productions, were named as defendants in a suit filed in October 2024 by joint liquidators Angela Barkhouse and Toni Shukla, seeking to recover $7.3 million allegedly transferred to Dean from entities controlled by Jho Low, the mastermind of the $7.65 billion 1MDB fraud. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled that the plaintiffs' claims are not time-barred, that they have standing, and that sufficient facts have been pleaded to proceed to discovery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 22 link 9 artists

suzanne duchamp retrospective zurich kunsthall schirn frankfurt

A new retrospective at Kunsthaus Zurich, soon traveling to Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, spotlights Suzanne Duchamp (1889–1963), a French artist often overshadowed by her brothers Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Jacques Villon. The exhibition, titled “Suzanne Duchamp: Retrospective,” showcases her highly individual painterly practice rooted in Cubism and Dada, featuring works like *Radiation of Two Solitary Separates Apart* (1916–20) and *Marcel’s Unhappy Readymade* (1920), which reappropriates her brother’s readymade concept. The show includes a new catalog commission by painter Amy Sillman, who created digital drawings inspired by Duchamp’s formal dynamics.

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article news schedule Sep 22, 2025 visibility 8 link 4 artists

man crushed to death by warhol painted bmw art car after winch fails in washington d c

A man was killed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., while unloading a 1979 BMW Art Car custom-painted by Andy Warhol. The accident occurred when a winch securing the vehicle on a flatbed truck failed, pinning the unidentified man beneath the car. The sports car was to be featured in a pop-up exhibition called “Cars at the Capital,” organized by the Hagerty Drivers Foundation, which has since canceled the event out of respect for the deceased.

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article news schedule Sep 17, 2025 visibility 8 link 3 artists

pussy riot members sentenced in absentia by a moscow court

Five members of the punk art collective Pussy Riot—Maria (Masha) Alekhina, Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot, Alina Petrova, and Taso Pletner—have been sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court to prison terms ranging from 8 to 13 years. The charges stem from spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian Armed Forces, linked to the collective’s 2022 antiwar video referencing the siege of Mariupol. The sentences were reported by the state-owned news agency Tass and first covered by the Art Newspaper.

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article culture schedule Sep 16, 2025 visibility 22 link 18 artists

new yorker covers marilyn minter awol erizku

The New Yorker has commissioned six contemporary photographers—Marilyn Minter, Awol Erizku, Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr, Camila Falquez, and Alex Prager—to reimagine historical illustrated covers for the magazine’s centennial. Each photographer created a celebrity portrait inspired by a past cover, such as Erizku’s photo of Spike Lee as Eustace Tilley and Minter’s recreation of a 1925 cover featuring actress Sadie Sink. The project marks only the third time in the magazine’s history that photography has been used for its cover.

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article culture schedule Sep 15, 2025 visibility 17 link 4 artists

newly discovered snail named after picasso

An international team of malacologists has discovered 46 new species of Southeast Asian microsnails, all under the genus Anauchen. One of them, Anauchen picasso, is named after Pablo Picasso because the angular patterns on its 3mm-wide shell resemble Cubism. The findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys, based on fieldwork in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, and comparisons with specimens from the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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article culture schedule Sep 11, 2025 visibility 14 link 4 artists

girl with a pearl earring vermeer why so important

This article explores the enduring fascination with Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665–67), examining the mystery of the unknown subject and the painting's history. It debunks popular theories about the sitter's identity, clarifying that the work is a "tronie"—a formal study of facial features, not a portrait—and traces Vermeer's life, his limited output of 34 known paintings, and his posthumous obscurity for 200 years before rediscovery in the mid-19th century.

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basquiat picasso works linked to global 1mdb scandal net 36 m in auction by us marshals

Four artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, and Diane Arbus, seized by the U.S. Department of Justice in connection with the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, sold for a combined $36 million in an online auction conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service. The lots included Basquiat's *Self Portrait* (1982) for $8.3 million and *Red Man One* (1982) for $22 million, Picasso's *Tête de taureau et broc* (1939) for $5 million, and Arbus's *Child with a Toy Hand Grenade* for $500,150. The auction, held by Gaston and Sheehan in Texas, ran from July 16 to September 4.

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article culture schedule Jul 25, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

georges seurat a sunday on la grande jatte why so important 2

Georges Seurat's Post-Impressionist masterpiece, *A Sunday on La Grande Jatte* (1884–86), is analyzed in depth for its revolutionary technique and historical context. The painting depicts weekend day-trippers in a Parisian park, employing pointillism—which Seurat called divisionism or *peinture optique*—to fix modern life in a chromatic eternity. Influenced by his academic training under Henri Lehmann (a student of Ingres) and Michel Eugène Chevreul's color theory, Seurat used tiny dots of color that blend in the viewer's eye, merging science with art. The work was preceded by *Bathers at Asnières* (1884), which shares the same landscape and thematic concerns, together portraying both sides of the Seine.

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article culture schedule Jul 23, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

hieronymus bosch garden of earthly delights why important

The article examines Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (c. 1490–1510), explaining that while modern viewers often call it surreal, the term is an anachronism; the painting reflects a medieval worldview where damnation and divine order were accepted realities. It describes the triptych's structure, its likely commission by Engelbert II, Count of Nassau, and its narrative flow from grisaille exterior to vivid interior panels depicting Eden and hell. The piece also notes how 20th-century Surrealists like André Breton and Salvador Dalí claimed Bosch as a precursor, with Dalí directly borrowing motifs from the painting.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 15 link 9 artists

maripol sophie bramly joopiter marketplace sale

Maripol, the French-born photographer who documented downtown New York's 1980s cultural scene, is selling selections from her archive through Joopiter's Marketplace platform in a sale titled "Downtown Archive: '80s – '90s New York." The sale includes her Polaroid portraits of icons like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Madonna, Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, and Andy Warhol, as well as ephemera such as an invitation to Fiorucci's 15th anniversary party at Studio 54. Also featured are artifacts from Sophie Bramly, creator of "Yo! MTV Raps," including her custom bomber jacket and photographs of hip-hop pioneers like Kool Herc, Run-DMC, and Keith Haring. The sale is rounded out with vintage designer fashions from Chanel, Thierry Mugler, Bob Mackie, and Donna Karan, curated by retailer Vintage Grace.

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article culture schedule Jul 22, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

eddington ari aster poster david wojnarowicz

Ari Aster's upcoming film *Eddington*, premiering at Cannes, uses David Wojnarowicz's 1988–89 artwork *Untitled (Buffalos)* as its poster image. The film, set in May 2020, follows a sheriff and mayor clashing over face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wojnarowicz's work, originally a critique of U.S. government indifference during the AIDS crisis, depicts bison falling off a cliff—a metaphor for societal collapse. The poster slightly alters the image, and A24, the production company, has not commented on the design.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 13 link 4 artists

christies smashes canalettos auction record after venice view sells for 43 7 m

Christie’s Old Masters evening sale in London set a new auction record for Canaletto on Tuesday, when his painting *Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day* (circa 1732) sold for £31.9 million with fees ($43.7 million), far exceeding its £20 million estimate. The work, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister Robert Walpole, drew five bidders and sold to an anonymous phone bidder via Christie’s international director Alice de Roquemaurel. The previous Canaletto record of £18.6 million was set at Sotheby’s in 2005.

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article culture schedule Jun 27, 2025 visibility 12 link 7 artists

waterhouse tennyson lady of shalott

English painter John William Waterhouse created three paintings based on Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott," depicting a cursed woman from Arthurian legend. The article explores Waterhouse's deep admiration for Tennyson, noting that he filled his copy of Tennyson's works with sketches. It reveals that Waterhouse painted the story in reverse chronological order, starting with the final scene in 1888, then the moment of temptation in 1894, and finally the lady's lament in 1915. The article also identifies the model for the first painting as likely Waterhouse's wife, artist Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, and describes symbolic details in the work, such as the snuffed candles foreshadowing death.

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