Tag: Modern

Modern and Native Influences – ARTnews.com

Born on the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota, Oscar Howe (1915–1983) absorbed through his grandmother’s stories a deep knowledge of his people and their religion. This heritage formed the lifelong basis of his art. In paintings and drawings, he explored the traditional daily activities, sacred ceremonies, and solitary vision quests of his Dakota community. An artist from a young age, Howe studied in ...

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Record-Breaking Mondrian Painting Carries Sotheby’s Modern Art Sales – ARTnews.com

On Monday evening, two back-to-back modern art evening sales at Sotheby’s brought in a collective $391.2 million. Even though the sales surpassed the house’s estimate of $318 million, the result failed to continue begun last week, when Christie’s kicked off the fall auction season in New York with a bang. That house had offered the collection of the late tech mogul Paul G. Allen, ...

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Wolfgang Tillmans Retrospective Sprawls at the Museum of Modern Art – ARTnews.com

Doubling back through Wolfgang Tillmans’s substantial retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, “To look without fear,” I paused in front of a black-and-white photocopy of handwritten text on spiral-bound paper from 1992. The German words (also the work’s title), translate to “who dares to love lives tomorrow.” Given the artist’s history of photographing friends, lovers, and club scenes as much as political rallies, ...

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Art Industry News: Bloomberg Businessweek Dedicates an Entire Magazine Issue to One Article Calling NFTs ‘a Modern Ponzi Scheme’ + Other Stories

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 Wednesday, October 26. NEED-TO-READ A Deep Dive Into Michael Steinhardt’s Embattled Art Collection – The retired New York hedge funder and antiquities collector, who has surrendered 180 objects valued at $70 million to the D.A. ...

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At Tate Modern, Cecilia Vicuña Mourns the Destruction of Rain Forests – ARTnews.com

What does it mean to present fragility at a massive scale? Artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña has been considering this question for the past few months while been working on her Turbine Hall Commission for Tate Modern. In a press conference on Monday, Vicuña recalled that this inquiry was quickly followed by another regarding the coldness of Turbine Hall: “How can you make it ...

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Royal Fine Arts Museum of Antwerp Reopens with Slick Modern Art Wing – ARTnews.com

Antwerp, the northern port of Belgium, is a city of gems, some of them literal—it’s a diamond capital of Europe—and others cultural. Two of them are the studio of Peter Paul Rubens and the Royal Fine Arts Museum of Antwerp (KMSKA), keeper of one of the most important collections of Flemish Old Masters. Both of these sites are currently in expansion mode. This weekend, ...

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David Breslin Picked to Lead Met’s Modern and Contemporary Art Department – ARTnews.com

David Breslin, a co-curator of this year’s acclaimed Whitney Biennial, has been picked to the lead the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary art department department. Breslin, who is currently a curator at the Whitney Museum, will start at the Met in the fall. He fills a post left vacant by Sheena Wagstaff, who announced plans to leave the museum earlier this year ...

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One hundred years of modern art on display

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea "The Three Ages of Woman" (1905) by Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt's "The Three Ages of Woman," together with a cluster of masterpieces, is on display at Bund One Art Museum.Titled "100 Years of Modern Art: Masterpieces of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art," the exhibition is supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Italy in ...

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