With art-market veterans still reeling from the $450.3 million sale of a Leonardo at Christie’s last night, the usual gang of collectors, dealers, advisers, and auction fans convened tonight at the 57th Street headquarters of Phillips in New York for its November 20th-century and contemporary art evening sale. One Phillips exec joked before the auction that […]
Weatherwise/Otherwise: Artists Respond to Climate Change, at Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College through December 9, had turned prophetic by the time of its opening in September. Curator Dorothy Moye had chosen as its central artwork Mary Edna Fraser’s Charleston Airborne Flooded (South Carolina), a large batik wall hanging depicting an aerial map of Charleston and […]
Montreal, Toronto and the funding in the main Canadian cities. Thanks to a tool included in Ontario’s Planning Act known as Section 37, which lets developers trade community benefits for extra height and density, the city’s art holdings have grown with its skyline. But despite the boom, public art policies haven’t changed much since they […]
In the 1970s, photographer Hana Hamplová (Czech, born 1951) was commissioned to create the cover for a samizdat (underground press) publication of Bohumil Hrabal’s novella, Too Loud a Solitude. The story, written in 1976 and set in Prague, follows an eccentric man named Hantá who operates a paper compactor; he muses over the power of books […]
On Sunday, the Detroit Institute of Arts will present two new exhibitions bundled as one, featuring works by painters Claude Monet and Frederic Church. Though Monet and Church were contemporaries, they were not a part of the same movement. Church was an American, while Monet was a Frenchman. But the two exhibitions augment one another in […]
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