For decades, the artist and writer Barbara Chase-Riboud has focused on assembling what she calls her “pantheon of invisibles,” people whose values and lives she renders present and permanent. She dedicated a whole series of sculptures to Malcolm X, to whom she paid homage by way of clusters of bronze, along with tassel-like knots of fiber spilling out beneath them. She wrote a novelized ...
Barbara McKay is not afraid of experiencing the full breadth of human emotion.The 82-year-old artist has known the grief of losing her adult son and husband, to the joy of having her work recognised by one of the art world's biggest heavyweights."I have painted through all life's experiences: happiness, joy, discovery, grief, you name it, and I think that has been my absolute saving grace, you know, ...
The relationship between writers and artists tends to be a one-way street. Artists make, writers critique. But in Gold Custody, a new book by artist Barbara Bloom and poet/novelist Ben Lerner, response and creation is a simultaneous, collaborative process. Gold Custody is slight; it’s no gargantuan coffee table book, but it’s no slim novel either. It is composed of a series of 13 prose-poems ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines MUSEUMS UP NORTH. Huguette Vachon, the widow of the painter Jean-Paul Riopelle, who died in 2002, has proposed opening a museum devoted to his art on the Isle-aux-Grues in Quebec, the Art Newspaper reports. The 3,000-square-foot Musée-Atelier Riopelle, which would present Vachon’s holdings of his work, is estimated to cost about US$3.3 million to build and could ...
Few creators can claim the Museum of Modern Art and Rage Against the Machine as fans and collaborators. Yet, this is the unifying power of 77-year-old conceptual artist Barbara Kruger’s work: it’s immediate, powerful, and, as her legion of imitators has proven, it also looks great on a T-shirt.Known for iconic text works proclaiming “I shop therefore I am” and “Your body is a ...
A lawsuit filed in a New York state court in January has brought forth claims against contemporary art dealer Barbara Gladstone and her senior partner, Max Falkenstein, who were accused of retaliating against a former staff member at Gladstone Gallery after she raised concerns about alleged discrimination and violations related to employee compensation at the gallery. In the complaint, Laura Higgins, who served as ...
A startling lawsuit filed in a New York court accuses art dealer Barbara Gladstone and her senior partner, Max Falkenstein, of conspiring to ruin a former employee’s career, including a job prospect with painter George Condo, after she raised red flags about unlawful compensation and sexual discrimination at the gallery. Laura Higgins, a gallery manager at Gladstone in New York from 2016 to 2021, says she ...
Arthur “Art” Smith (97), left his loving family in the early morning of the 18th of December 2021, to be reunited with his wife of 70 years, Audrey Smith.Born in the Fall of 1924, Art was a native of San Francisco, California. In 1943 as a young man, he left his family home of San Francisco to set out for WWII as a soldier ...
MOSCOW — A sleek new culture hub opened its doors on Saturday evening with an art event Muscovites had been awaiting for years. But the spectators at the inauguration of the vast new GES-2 museum had not come to see paintings or sculptures. They were watching “Santa Barbara.”Every day through March 22, 2022, a team of 80 actors and technicians is carrying out the ...
Auction Records Set for Barbara Kruger, Lee BontecouThis week, Christie’s began the fall marquee auction weeks setting records for several artists. Coming from a trove of Pictures Generation works sold by New Jersey–based neurosurgeon Abe Steinberger, Barbara’s Kruger’sUntitled (Your Manias Become Science), 1981, set a new record for the artist at $1.2 million. Later in the week, an Lee Bontecou‘s untitled abstract work made ...
