All articles tagged with #art
A Jackson Pollock painting, Number 7A, 1948, sold for $181.2 million at Christie’s in New York, setting a new auction record for Pollock and highlighting a day of high-value results that also saw Brâncuşi, Rothko, Miró and Klimt achieve record prices.
Frieze New York presents a cautious art-market snapshot: galleries lean toward blue-chip, saleable paintings—polite abstracts and semi-figurative works—while big houses like David Zwirner anchor the fair and midsize galleries face overhead pressure, even as some booths push restrained, curatorial bets. The mood is one of measured recovery rather than a breakthrough.
Venice Biennale 2026’s main exhibition, 'In Minor Keys,' curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, centers six artists—Cauleen Smith; Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons; Tiona Nekkia McClodden; Alfredo Jaar; Walid Raad; Kaloki Nyamai—whose restrained, atmospheric works explore memory, loss, and cross-generational bonds while reflecting on the geopolitics of minerals, with installations and multimedia pieces that emphasize quiet resilience amid global disruption.
The Met’s new Costume Art exhibition treats fashion as fine art by placing garments alongside artworks and using reflective, named mannequins to invite visitors to see themselves in the clothes. Organized around a typology of bodies—from Naked & Nude to Classical, Abstract, and Reclaimed—the show explores how dress shapes and is shaped by the human form, including diverse, pregnant, corpulent, and disabled bodies, while connecting fashion history to broader art contexts. It unfolds across the Met’s new Condé Nast Galleries, aiming to democratize aesthetics and celebrate the body as a shared artistic medium rather than a mere display of clothing.
Georg Baselitz, influential German artist, has died at 88, AP News reports, marking the loss of a major figure in contemporary art.
Loie Hollowell’s Overview Effect at Pace Gallery London pairs large twin-circle canvases with pastel drawings to explore birth, abortion, pregnancy and breastfeeding through a cosmic, abstract lens inspired by her own experiences. The works fuse bodily imagery with outward, planetary forms—reflecting a developmental arc from her first birth’s diagrammatic representations to a more internal, space-inspired approach. Influences range from Louise Bourgeois and O’Keeffe to home-birth photos and Ina May Gaskin, and Hollowell discusses how shifting reception and female curators have allowed her to speak more openly about abortion and sexuality. The show, timely with Artemis II, situates the body within abstract art and questions market-driven pigeonholing, running at Pace Gallery, London, through May.
AIPAD’s Photography Show in New York brings together more than 70 galleries for a sweeping survey of the medium, pairing historic masters like Bill Brandt with contemporary voices such as Zanele Muholi and Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, across portraits, nude studies and explorations of identity, memory and representation, reflecting photography’s evolving dialogue from classic to contemporary works.
LA kicks off a culturally rich stretch with the David Geffen Galleries' members-only preview at LACMA—featuring Brutalist architecture, a Rodin garden, and Calder’s Three Quintains, plus Jazz at LACMA. The week then offers a broad slate of concerts, screenings, no-waste Earth Week dinners, and exhibitions across SoCal, including OC Made in Fullerton and other performances, all framed by LAist's funding appeal.
A Hackaday piece explains how MC Escher’s 1956 drawing creates a Droste-like, self-referential loop by using four differently scaled, interconnected rectangles. Building on work by B. de Smit and H. W. Lenstra Jr. (2003) and popularized via a 3Blue1Brown video, the technique can be modeled by treating the scene as an elliptic curve over the complex numbers, allowing the central void to be filled with a coherent, endlessly looping transformation rather than remaining blank.
Scott F. Reid, a Santa Barbara artist and founder of Scott F. Reid and Associates Design Office, died March 15, 2026 after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in 1945 in Santa Monica, he studied at Art Center and UCSB, built a 30+ year design practice serving the city and MTD, and was deeply involved in the community through Transition House and Meals on Wheels. He is survived by three sons—Seth Reid, Matt Reid and Sean Kerr—and five grandchildren, with his life centered on art, family and service. A celebration of his life was planned for April 3 at the Sunrise Urn Garden, Santa Barbara Cemetery.
Tetsuya Nomura posted new Kingdom Hearts artwork to mark the series' 24th anniversary, depicting Xehanort; he notes Square Enix is hard at work toward the 25th anniversary next year and thanks fans for their support.
Media speculation about Banksy's true identity resurfaces, fueling debates on the value of anonymity in street art, with some fans upset by a potential reveal while dealers remain unfazed, underscoring how identity can influence interpretation and market dynamics.
LA and Southern California offer a culture-packed March 9–12 with art openings (Jonas Wood at Gagosian Beverly Hills; Haegue Yang at MOCA), a free Star-Crossed Rendezvous pairing MOCA with a Disney Hall concert, an array of concerts (Fray at the Grammy Museum; Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails at the Honda Center; Phantogram at the Troubadour; KWN at the Belasco; Margo Price, Susanna Hoffs, Umphrey’s McGee, Buck Meek), film and talks (Live Action Shorts at the Academy Museum; Danny Clinch photography show at Wrensilva), OC Restaurant Week, plus a free online meditation class and an Oscars trivia night at O’Brien’s.
The Well newsletter highlights research suggesting that engaging with art and crafts—like knitting or painting—can boost health and happiness, describing it as a potential fifth pillar of health. Insights from Daisy Fancourt, a UCL professor of psychobiology and epidemiology, are cited to illustrate how creative activities may improve well-being, whether done solo or in group settings.
A previously unknown red chalk foot sketch by Michelangelo, dating to about 1511–12 and linked to the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, sold at Christie’s for £16.9 million ($23 million), far above its estimate after infrared imaging helped confirm the attribution.