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Joan Mitchell’s vocation as a painter always intertwined with poetry. In 1935, “Autumn,” a poem she wrote at age 10, published in Poetry magazine, distills melancholia from a landscape of  “rusty leaves,” “blue haze,” “sun-tanned stalks,” and “red berries” on a “thorn-tree.” Speaking in Marion Cajori’s documentary film Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter (1992) the artist says her painting is “more like...

When it took place in the early hours of March 18, as celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day were still going strong, the theft of 13 artworks, including a major painting each by Rembrandt and Vermeer, from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum became international news. Almost immediately, it was labeled the largest art heist the world had ever seen. Now, 31 years later, with the...

When you have a good easel, you can focus on your masterpiece while working in comfort. Wooden easels, compared to aluminum easels, have a more classic and handsome look, and they’re often built with compartments or drawers to keep your tools. This makes them great for traveling, as they can double as storage so you have less to juggle. Some examples of wooden options...

The Spanish government has put an export ban on a painting attributed to the circle of Jusepe de Ribera on the grounds that it may be by Caravaggio. The work was due to be sold on Thursday (8 April) by the auction house Ansorena in Madrid. The Spanish culture ministry issued the stop on the Crowning of Thorns on Wednesday after experts from the...

Six people have been arrested in Qatar for vandalizing a giant Richard Serra sculpture in the country’s desert. The Qatar Museums, which manages the upkeep of the piece, titled East West/West East (2014), announced the arrests on Instagram and said they had occurred within the past two months. “Legal procedures are in process against” the suspected vandals, the Qatar Museums said. In a prior...

The private collections of the late artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason will be sold to benefit the painters’ two foundations at Christie’s next month. Featuring works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Richard Diebenkorn, Lee Bontecou, and Marsden Hartley, a live auction with some of the of the top works of the collection will take place on May 18 at Christie’s New York headquarters. An online sale...

Cory Arcangel’s art used to be fun. From familiar media properties—Super Mario Bros., Seinfeld, Kelly Clarkson—he isolated beautiful fragments and flaws in a nerdy, analytical way. Those early works can induce a tingling sensation: warm, goofy nostalgia and cool aesthetic appreciation, both at once. But nothing close to that feeling arises from “Century 21,” his first solo exhibition at Greene Naftali (and his first...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR NORMAN STONE HAS DIED at the age of 82, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. With his wife, Norah Stone, who died in 2019, Stone built an adventurous collection of contemporary art that they displayed at Stonescape , a 5,000-square-foot private museum that the couple created near Calistoga. Stone was a venture capitalist who later became...

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, April 8. NEED-TO-READ Is Seoul the Next Art-Market Hot Spot? – Pace has announced it is doubling down on the South Korean capital, where it will double its footprint with a new two story, 8,500-square-foot gallery...

Artist Tracey Emin says her cancer is 'gone'  BBC News Source link