Author: Juddy Miller

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.”…

DETROIT – Art historians often credit white men as pioneers of modern abstraction, from Piet Mondrian to Jackson Pollock. But there is an alternative lineage of non-figurative composition built by women, people of color, and fiber artists: quilt making. As archives like the Quilt Index prove, for every straightforward, functional quilt, there are a dozen that boldly experiment with abstract form, color, motifs. and material, sometimes because of need and poor material, but sometimes because of joy, self-expression and artistic experimentation. Detroit fiber artist Carole Harris, now 81, can’t remember exactly when she learned to sew. “It’s always been there. I grew…

LONDON – Almost all political movements soften their influence over time. As the mainstream changes, the razor’s edge of contemporary debate becomes part of a longer timeline. By the time artistic production becomes a museum, it is over, firmly locked in the past. Women in rebellion! Art and Activism in the United Kingdom 1970–1990 is a classic example of this: a massive spectacle covering British feminism from the 1970s to the 90s, pressing different groups and causes into a neat timeline. This exhibition occupies the large galleries on the ground floor of Tate Britain and is overflowing with material, much of it…

LONDON – It’s one thing for a museum to commission a survey of its past colonial activity, as many UK institutions are doing after the Black Lives Matter movement and specifically the 2020 demolition of the Colston statue. Another is to encourage open dialogue to move forward as a society. This is the aim of the Royal Academy in the exhibition Entangled Pasts 1768–Present: Art, Colonialism and Change, which marries works from its 250-year history with contemporary responses from 50 RA-affiliated artists. His curation is at once academically rigorous, profound and emotionally moving. Although framed by the history of RA, which…

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain – As the world entered its first pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020, Javier Arce lived in a mountain village in Cantabria, a small, sparsely populated region in northern Spain. With supplies dwindling and art supplies running low, Arce gathered oil paint in her studio and began using wood to construct canvas bars. “I made myself an easel and began to paint what was around me at home,” he later wrote in an essay in his 2023 publication. from nature. Oil painting became a new focus for Arce, which he had previously worked with conceptual way using…

Since his creation in the 1940s, painter Francis Bacon has been known for his phantasmagoric compositions that seemed to emerge directly from his hedonistic lifestyle. Bacon had a famously mercurial personality, although some of that reputation is likely tied to him to the “transgression” of being gay in a less tolerant age. One of Bacon’s recurring subjects was his muse and lover George Dyer, whom he painted obsessively. Now, Bacon is bringing Dyer’s first full-scale portrait to auction at Sotheby’s, which is expected to fetch between $30 million and $50 million when the hammer falls. “Portrait of George Dyer Crouching” was…