I first experienced the work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby at Artbasel in 2015….I loved it instantly and could afford it ironically, but sadly I waited …..and that was a big mistake. I am not sure what came over me as restraint and sensibility are not my typical reflex. I posted earlier about the opening of …
Almost a year ago I posted about the successful Christies’ auction of Basquiat’s Untitled, from 1982. A world auction record for Basquiat at $57.3 million U.S. was set and now it seems their rival house, Sotheby’s, is bringing to auction another Basquiat blockbuster. Sotheby’s piece, also from 1982 with the same moniker, is the leading lot in …
Moving downtown from Madison Avenue, the Whitney Museum now sits as an anchor at the base of the High Line in the meatpacking district. The museum’s fourth incarnation is yet another signifier of the city’s changing cultural landscape. These two photos are murals by J.R. and Njideka Akunyili Crosby and were taken from the Fifth …
Rumour has it that Vancouver based, photographer Jeff Wall is leaving Marian Goodman after 25 years with her gallery. Wall, one of today’s leading international artists, is heading over to Gagosian. Wall refers to his large scale conceptual photographs as “cinematographic” re-creations of moments he has experienced but not yet photographed. He is known along …
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The first time I saw the work of Nathanial Mary Quinn I was sold and sadly, so too was the painting. There is a lot of buzz around Quinn and his rising star in the NYC art scene. His practice relies on the tension between the beautiful and the grotesque and sits somewhere between abstraction …
The star of Christie’s Postwar and Contemporary Art auction on May 10, 2016 was Untitled, a monumental self portrait by Jean-Michael Basquiat painted in 1982 – considered his most important year. In the painting Basquiat portrayed himself as a demonic figure, centrally focused as is often the case in Basquiat’s work, surrounded by splashes of paint …
Painted in 2006, Richard Prince’s Runaway Nurse is a steamy, lurid work, a flagrantly erotic example of the Nurse paintings that remain the iconic series in the artist’s oeuvre. Set ablaze in fiery crimson tones, the painting depicts a beautiful young nurse, whose bare shoulders and black lingerie make Runaway Nurse one of the most overtly sexual in the series. Prince …
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I can unequivocally say that this piece from Andy Warhol’s portrait series entitled, Ladies and Gentleman, or more commonly referred to as “The Drag Queen Paintings”, was my favorite this year at the Art Dealer’s Association of America’s Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory. The energy of the paint and the intensity and vibrancy of the palette …
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