Rudolf Stingel’s Monumental Mountain Range
A view of the Tyrolean Alps near Merano, Italy, the town where the artist was born
The first landscape painting by the artist to appear at auction
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale London, 7 March 2018
The top four highest auction prices for the artist were set last year
BMA ILLUMINATES LOBBY OF HISTORIC BUILDING WITH MOON DUST (APOLLO 17) BY ACCLAIMED AMERICAN ARTIST SPENCER FINCH
Dramatic light work created for 2009 Venice Biennale will be on view for seven years
Aquatopia takes you behind the scenes at artist and maker Katrin Spranger's studio in London. She uses an electroforming technique to create her Collection that's inspired by science fiction and what life might be like in the future.
See Katrin's work at Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects on 22 - 25 February.
Opening at Sean Kelly, New York this month, ‘Marina Abramović Early Works’ displays a historical record of the early, groundbreaking performances by the “Grandmother of Performance Art.” The 12 photos represent performances from the 1970's, including her Rhythm series, Lips of Thomas (star on stomach), Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, and others.
Original Cover Art for The Amazing Spider-Man #100 May Bring $300,000 at Heritage Auctions
Classic vintage comic books highlight Feb. 22-24 auction
Full of glamour, theatricality, escapism, but also wit, innovation, and issues confronting our time, New Orleans Museum of Art’s first presentation of fashion design is an exhibition unlike any ever seen in New Orleans. A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, on view from February 21 to May 28, 2018, brings together a wild array of more than one hundred gowns, headpieces, shoes, jewelry, and images by the most insightful fashion designers, artists, and photographers of the past ten years.
Should art be beautiful? Revisit ancient philosophers' thoughts on beauty and consider why we might be skeptical of beauty today.
Dan Flavin: in daylight or cool white
David Zwiner
537 West 20th Street New York
February 21—April 14, 2018
According to the introductory exhibition text, sculptor Bob Trotman’s Business as Usual aims to examine “the confluence of power, privilege, greed, and pretense that often characterizes the world of corporate capitalism.” The show emphasizes the dehumanizing nature of corporate America. But because they respond to the visitor’s approach via motion activation, there is a surprisingly intimate and playful relation between these objects and the spectator.
Many of Degas’ pieces executed in the 1880s — ‘the works of a mature genius’ — are today held in institutions. Our Global President Jussi Pylkkänen was, therefore, surprised and delighted to see this rare pastel opera scene come to market.
‘I think this is one of the most noble and beautiful works by Degas that I've seen on the market in the past 30 years,’ says Pylkkänen of Dans les coulisses, Edgar Degas’ pastel on linen from 1882-85. ‘I saw it for the first time some 15 years ago, and was immediately struck by its uniqueness and its beauty.’
