Author: Ann Williams

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…

Organizmo Foundation the definition of what an architect does turns on itself. Working with the built environment, it is not an architectural firm, but “an agent of horizontal dialogue”, as its founder, Ana María Gutiérrez, has said. Art Newspaper. Especially in collaboration with indigenous communities, Gutiérrez believes that his place is to “orchestrate”, not to teach. With a focus on sustainability, the Colombian organization hopes to help remove the stigma associated with using folk traditions and deconstruct colonialism in the process; the experts here are people who know the land, the plants and how to build with it. already thereFundación…

The foundation of legendary minimalist artist Donald Judd (1928-94) is suing entrepreneur and reality TV star Kim Kardashian and Los Angeles interior design firm Clements Design, alleging that the firm misrepresented tables and chairs furnished for Skkn’s offices. Kim, Kardashian’s company, as the actual design of Judd.The Judd Foundation’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday (March 27) in California’s Central District Court, accuses Kardashian and Clements Design of trademark infringement, copyright infringement, unfair competition, false advertising and false endorsement. The Judd Foundation seeks any profits that Kardashian and Clements Design may receive from the alleged false representations of the tables and chairs as…

Francis Bacon, “Portrait of George Dyer Crouching” (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy of Sotheby’s) Francis Bacon, “Portrait of George Dyer Crouching” (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy of Sotheby’s) Francis Bacon, “Portrait of George Dyer Crouching” (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy of Sotheby’s) 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…

Two men accused of selling more than 2.6 million pounds (about $3.2 million) worth of fake fine art attributed to Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso have been jailed in London. A six-year money laundering investigation by Sussex Police found that Behrad Kazemi and Raj Nasta sold Dalí works for £2,000 to £3,000 and Picasso works for £5,000 to £20,000 between October 2016 and June 2018 to more than 125 victims. The scheme involved cold calls from Asset Consulting Services and a company called Treasury Asset Group and a push to buy artworks instead of traditional investments. Related Articles A Sussex…

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…

Javier Arce, “Sobre lo cerca (Waka)” (2023), oil on canvas, 11 x 10 inches (all photos by Lauren Moya Ford/Hyperallergic) Javier Arce, “Sobre lo cerca (Waka)” (2023), oil on canvas, 11 x 10 inches (all photos by Lauren Moya Ford/Hyperallergic) Javier Arce, “Sobre lo cerca (Waka)” (2023), oil on canvas, 11 x 10 inches (all photos by Lauren Moya Ford/Hyperallergic) 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…

Winding through Materials for the Arts’ 35,000-square-foot home is as close as visiting Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. At the beginning of the year, the sprawling warehouse in Queens was filled with Christmas decorations, ornaments, pink evergreens, and lavish soap boxes, along with paper and books, envelopes, archival photos, all kinds of fabric, buttons, beads. , and cut There are also hospital lab coats, Javits Center furniture and vintage typewriters and computer towers, CDs and file folders. Filled with the outcasts of contemporary New York City life waiting to be brought out of the darkness, the list goes on. Most of…

Phillips’ “New Now” auction brought in $5.5 million last night in New York. The sale was led by an untitled work by Wade Guyton from 2007, which sold for $241,300—more than three times the low estimate of $70,000 (all prices include taxes). In the evening there was a 72% sale rate by lot, with 149 of the 208 lots on offer finding buyers. “It was wonderful to see the great depth of international bidding at our New York ‘New Now’ sale, with nearly 50 countries participating by phone, online and in the saleroom,” said Avery Semjen, associate specialist at Phillips…

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,…