Author: Ethan Rhodes
Between 2017 and 2020, archeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archeological Research (INRAP) excavated a proposed construction site…
Leonora Carrington stole the show at Sotheby’s tonight, despite Claude Monet clinching the top bid. Carrington’s Surrealist fantasy, Les Distractions…
Last night, Phillips sold what may become the most expensive artwork of the marquee May auctions in New York: Jean-Michel…
Despite a widely publicized cyberattack that forced Christie’s to take down its website—it’s still not back up nearly a week…
On Tuesday night, Christie’s immediately followed its de la Cruz sale with its regular 21st-century evening auction. As the proceedings…
A Surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) fetched $28.5 million (including fees) at Sotheby’s in New York tonight, setting a…
I think it will be remembered well. The 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” has…
Los Angeles-based artist Eamon Ore-Giron describes his practice as an ongoing conversation with the ancient worlds of Mexico and Peru.…
There’s a new high water mark for passive aggressiveness in the visual arts—and the pun is intended. When the town…
In the art world, craft occupies a lower cultural status than art. Certain folks sneer at the category as parochial,…
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