Author: Juddy Miller

A collaborative work by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, measuring an impressive 10 x 13 metres, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction in May. The untitled artwork last appeared on the market nearly 15 years ago, when it hammered $2.65 million at Sotheby’s in 2010. Today, the auction house is worth about 18 million dollars, growing almost six times. Without a title It was produced between 1983 and 1985 as part of a great collaboration between the two artists, which was explored in depth at last year’s exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Fondation in Paris. Zurich gallerist Bruno Bischofberge…

At noon, daylight pours through a skylight in Brooklyn’s Carvalho Park, illuminating Rosalind Tallmadge’s 12 x 8.5-foot installation. Light Field (2024). Crafted from delicate Japanese organza and finished with silver mica that metalizes the material through a specialized mirror process, the work bounces off the ceiling like sunlight and floods the gallery. The hanging installation extends from the ceiling to the floor, the luscious silk runs from below to the floor. This work is the focus of the Brooklyn-based artist’s solo exhibition “AETHER” in Carvalho Park, on display until May 4. Its brightness suggests a gateway to heaven, but the celestial installation…

Art Market Maxwell Rabb Portrait of Baylon Sandri. Courtesy of SMAC Gallery. When South Africa’s SMAC gallery welcomed sculptor Barend De Wet to its roster, his career changed. It happened in 2009, two years after Baylon Sandrik founded the gallery in the picturesque wine country of Stellenbosch. Initially, the Cape Town-born gallerist envisioned SMAC—originally known as Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary—as a space for historically underserved South African artists. That changed when Sandri met De Wet. “De Wet was definitely one of South Africa’s most avant-garde artists, and this led to a change in the gallery’s approach,” Sandri told Artsy. Since…

Art Reena Devi A view of Samia Zaru’s installation, left to right and front to back, Life is a woven carpet1995, and Life is a woven carpet, 2001; and works by Abdulrahman Al-Soliman and Hind Nasser at the Diriyah Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2024. Photo by Marco Cappelletti. Courtesy of the Diriyah Biennial Foundation. Art events in Saudi Arabia often show a penchant for the bright and shiny. The second edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, the nation’s premier biennale, however, was no such spectacle. Launched with broad international ambitions, the exhibition showcased a diverse geographical range of artists from the…

Art Market Arun Kakar Art Basel Basel, 2023. Courtesy of Art Basel. Art Basel and UBS’s annual “Art Market” report was released today, revealing an art market currently navigating an “uncertain economic and political future.” The eighth edition of the report, released by Art Basel and UBS, is authored by cultural economist Dr. Clare McAndrew and includes data from a variety of sources including Artsy, art dealers, auction houses, collectors, art fairs and databases. Here, we share five key ones. 1. Until 2023, the value of sales decreased, but the volume increased The headline figure in this year’s report confirms…

On March 13th, Free Arts NYC will hold its annual art auction on Artsy to support arts education and youth mentoring in underserved communities. Now in its 27th year, the event features artwork by Elizabeth Glaessner, Katherine Bradford and Christopher Wool. Without a title (2009) is the auction’s most valuable lot, with bids starting at $400,000. Each year, the auction supports 1,500 young people between the ages of 5 and 23 in partnership with more than 30 schools, community centers and transitional housing centers. A silent auction is being held at Artsy in conjunction with the live event, and lots will begin…

Art Maxwell Rabb Portrait of Kim Yun Shin. Courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London; and Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Busan. Kim Yun Shin learned to make art from poverty. Born in the northern region of Korea in 1935 as a result of the Japanese occupation, the artist developed his creativity with the few materials at hand: drawings and objects with sticks, sorghum straws and melted candles. Before fleeing to Seoul with her mother, Kim – now 88 – lived with her five siblings in the rural town of Anbyon until she was 10 years old.…

Last Thursday’s Christie’s 20th and 21st century and “The Art of The Surreal” sales brought in £196.7m ($250.4m), £166m and £233m (£213.1m and £299.2 million dollars) within the estimate. . In total, there was an increase of 17% from the equivalent sales made by the auction house last year. (All prices include taxes.) The sales set four new auction records, led by Jadé Fadojutimi The Woven Warped Ponder garden (2021), which sold for £1.6 million ($2 million). The sale marks the third time in the past five months that the British artist has set a new auction benchmark Surprise my attitude (2021) sold for…

the sponsor The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts fuses global residencies with a philosophy and non-art Ph.D. As a truly nomadic institution, the Institute of Doctoral Arts in Visual Arts (IDSVA) does not have a campus. We are everywhere our students and teachers are. Below is a sampling of notes shared by students during recent stays in Mexico City, Athens, and Marrakech. “IDSVA appealed to me because of the way it was structured. I am an international teacher, so I wanted to continue working on my program, and IDSVA gave me the opportunity to do so. Because…

Tech conglomerate Meta quietly rolled out a new auto-limiting feature on Instagram and Threads. “political content” based on user algorithms. The new update is a hidden expansion of the company’s February notice to suspend recommended political content from accounts users were not yet following. Meta’s feature also follows years of complaints from artists and activists who have suffered content removal and account suspensions or bans after being flagged by Instagram’s content moderation tools. Similar concerns about visibility and artistic freedom surfaced in 2021 after Instagram enabled a default setting that restricted sensitive content, defined as “posts that are not necessarily offensive.”…