Market Brief: For Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Joining White Cube Caps Meteoric Rise

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Red Twins, 2016. © Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. Photo by JSP Art Photography. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. The latest On Wednesday, the major British gallery White Cube announced that Tunji Adeniyi-Jones is the latest emerging artist to join its roster. Currently based in New York, the London-born artist has rapidly gained art…

Writing About Autism And Sex

Author Helen Hoang took her own life experiences and folded them into her novel The Kiss Quotient. “I spent a lot of my life pretending to be something else because I wanted to fit in. I put so much work into trying to fit in.” But a diagnosis – and writing a novel – freed her.…

Market Brief: Demand for Grace Hartigan’s Pioneering Ab-Ex Oeuvre Extends to Works on Paper

Grace Hartigan, Untitled, 1959. Courtesy of Christie’s Images Ltd. Madonna in Red Bed, 1994. Grace HartiganC. Grimaldis Gallery The latest Last Wednesday, a mixed-media collage by the late Abstract Expressionist artist Grace Hartigan sold for $75,000 at a Christie’s online auction, achieving five times its high estimate and breaking the auction record for works on…

Safely Playing Their Hearts Out At The Proms

How it’s working onstage: “When the guy comes to the rehearsal room he sometimes has this suspicious look. Especially in the beginning, when people were moving their chairs a little bit, he was like, ‘Don’t do that‘.” – BBC Continue reading: Click here Press Release Distribution Service

Artsy Insider: The Most In-Demand Artists of 2021’s Second Quarter

By order of appearance: Oh de Laval, What cannot be said will be wept, 2021. Courtesy of Unit London. Szabolcs Bozó, C.XL.004, 2019. Courtesy of Louis 21. Claire Tabouret, The Grip, 2018. Courtesy of Almine Rech. Hideaki Kawashima, green, 2014. Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery. Welcome to Artsy Insider. This week, I’m charting the rise…

8 Tastemaking Tokyo Galleries to Know

Teppei Fujiwara, installation view of Street Garden Theater, 2021, at Pavilion Tokyo, 2021. Photo by ToLoLo studio. Courtesy of the artist and Pavilion Tokyo. Getting to Tokyo to see Olympic events live will be no mean feat. If you have managed to get through the precautionary measures in place against COVID-19, or already happen to…

Getting Books Into The Hands Of Kids Who Need Them

With a young independent press, two women in Minneapolis want to take portrayals of Muslims in children’s literature to a new place – a place of normality. – Sahan Journal Continue reading: Click here Press Release Distribution Service

Synthia SAINT JAMES Publishes First Short Novel with Kindle Direct…

HYACINTH – The Breakout Novelette by Renowned Artist/Author Synthia SAINT JAMES hits the market via Amazon.com. (PRWeb July 31, 2021) Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/synthia_saint_james_publishes_first_short_novel_with_kindle_direct_publishing_amazon/prweb18096966.htm Press Release Distribution Service

Indiana University Sophomore Awarded 2021 Wilshire Quinn Musical Arts…

Ethan Clay is an accomplished cellist who has been inspired by the classical music genre since fifth grade (PRWeb July 30, 2021) Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/indiana_university_sophomore_awarded_2021_wilshire_quinn_musical_arts_scholarship/prweb18097185.htm Press Release Distribution Service

RAND Artist In Residence Giorgia Lupi Portrays Opportunities, Risks…

Latest Art + Data residency visualization explores RAND research on benefits and risks of human body-centric and internet-connected technologies (PRWeb July 30, 2021) Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/rand_artist_in_residence_giorgia_lupi_portrays_opportunities_risks_from_internet_of_bodies/prweb18098438.htm Press Release Distribution Service

RIT Press publishes ‘Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS…

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now,… (PRWeb July 29, 2021) Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/rit_press_publishes_up_against_the_wall_art_activism_and_the_aids_poster/prweb18102019.htm Press Release Distribution Service

Boston Children’s Museum Appoints Vice President of Programs and…

Melissa Higgins Will Lead the Development of the Museum’s Signature Hands-On Play and Learning Experiences (PRWeb July 20, 2021) Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/boston_childrens_museum_appoints_vice_president_of_programs_and_exhibits/prweb18080781.htm Press Release Distribution Service

Guggenheim Curators Ready To Unionize

The pandemic – and the way the museum treated some of the staff during closures – helped the push for unionization, says at least one digital producer. – The New York Times Continue reading: Click here Press Release Distribution Service

Amoako Boafo Is Sending an Artwork to Space

Portrait of Amoako Boafo by Francis Kokoroko. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim. A Blue Origin launch of its New Shepard rocket, showing the location on the nose of the capsule where Suborbital Triptych will be attached. Courtesy of Blue Origin. Rising-star artist Amoako Boafo has been commissioned to paint three panels of a…

The Children Of Blaxploitation Directors Rescue Their Fathers’ Films

Justine Henzell and Mario Van Peebles have done the heavy lifting to rescue, and in some cases help reshoot, their dads’ important, overlooked (and in Henzell’s case, formerly unfinished) films. – The Guardian (UK) Continue reading: Click here Press Release Distribution Service

The Art That Collectors Care about Today

This article is part of “Art Collecting 2021: An Artsy Report.” To download a PDF of the complete report, click here. In addition to asking collectors how they discover, buy, and sell art, and what motivates those decisions, we also wanted to know what art they actually collect—what work inspires, moves, and motivates them. Percentage…

After Months Of Turmoil At The Philadelphia Museum, The Director Steps Down

Timothy Rub now says he should have focused more, and much sooner (perhaps he means before the employees unionized), on gender and racial equity inside the museum. – The New York Times Continue reading: Click here Press Release Distribution Service

Pining For The Empire (We Should Pay Attention)

The experience of imperial nostalgia, Peter Mitchell argues, is not just some lightly felt fancy or excuse for “rote grumpiness,” but evidence of a “real and unassuageable grief” that we should take seriously. – The BafflerThe Baffler Continue reading: Click here Press Release Distribution Service

What’s Motivating Collectors to Buy Art in 2021

This article is part of “Art Collecting 2021: An Artsy Report.” To download a PDF of the complete report, click here. Collectors who used an online marketplace to buy art All data based on Artsy survey responses. Among all collectors surveyed, 83% said they have purchased art online at some point, and 75% have purchased…

South Korea Is Becoming A Bigger Player In Hollywood

Korean-language programs have seen a surge in demand following drama “Parasite” winning best picture at last year’s Academy Awards and “Minari” receiving critical acclaim. Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times Continue reading: Click here Press Release Distribution Service

8 Contemporary Artists Taking Fresh Approaches to Sports

Women’s Water Polo at Harvard, 2018. Pelle CassAbigail Ogilvy Gallery Since ancient times, artists and craftspeople have wrought not-quite facsimiles of the human form. They’ve idealized, warped, and parodied the figure’s proportions, erecting pedestals to memorialize its physical prowess. It’s little wonder why this practice persists: Our bodies are loaded, perplexing things that are ripe…

Market Brief: An Oli Epp Painting Sold for Nearly 10 Times Its High Estimate

Oli Epp, Whistleblower, 2017. Courtesy of Phillips. Multi Multitasking, 2018. Oli EppSide X Side Gallery The latest Oli Epp’s auction record was broken at Phillips’s “New Now” sale in London last Tuesday, when his playfully stylized and streamlined painting of a referee, Whistleblower (2017), sold for a staggering £144,900 ($201,000)—nearly 10 times the work’s high…

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