Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art Sales are taking place this week at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Tonight, May 14th, the auction house’s 21st Century Evening Sale is expected to witness a revolutionary record-break by South African artist and painter Marlene Dumas.
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Featuring more than 65 galleries from 25 countries, the 13th edition of Frieze New York returned to The Shed May 7th through the 11th with art from around the globe, a performance-centered program spilling over to The High Line, and a partnership with non-profits, including the Artist Plate Project, which showcased over 50 limited-edition plates by renowned artists that raised more than $500,000 for the Coalition for the Homeless.
Throughout history, cultures and artists have faced upheavals and catastrophes and reflected them through their work. Here we look at ten great works of art created in uncertain times.
These eight artists bent the rules when branding themselves. Although they worked across two centuries, all chose to adopt their mother’s family names instead of abiding by the traditional patriarchy, and—quite often—made the change at a point when they were making breakthroughs in the studio.
While Rembrandt and Vermeer remain perhaps the most famous painters of the era, there are a plentitude of other Dutch Golden Age artists worth remembering.
This past Friday, the Trump administration issued a proposal to eradicate numerous arts-centered agencies from the federal budget. These “small agency eliminations” include the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The first Haitian female artist to exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art–with her remarkable paper dress sculpture, Justice of Ezili–conceptual artist Fabiola Jean-Louis (b. 1978) captures viewers’ attention with her Afro Surrealist creations.
If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism–it is the rose. This slide show will focus on the prominence of roses in Western art from the first millennium BCE to the twenty-first century CE.
Renowned for his large, site-specific Plexus installations, which use sewing thread to emulate refracted light, Mexico City-born artist Gabriel Dawe (1973) works with various media–including textiles, video, watercolor, and collage.
Stories featured in the spring edition of Art & Object magazine.
