Installation view of “Mire Lee: Open Wound,” 2024, Tate Modern. Photo Larina Fernandes/©Tate The circus has rolled into town. Frieze London and Frieze Masters open their doors to the VIPs today, but are London’s fairs fast becoming an amuse-bouche for the feast that will be Art Basel Paris next week? Many think so. The art …
View of Galerie Sardine’s pop-up exhibition in Paris. Courtesy Galerie Sardine Galerie Sardine is having a moment in Paris and New York—for those lucky enough to catch it! The New York–based space and collaborative curatorial project was started by artist Joe Bradley and art director Valentina Akerman in an historic Amagansett farmhouse over the summer, …
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Christine Macel. Photo Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images Christine Macel, a closely watched French curator who organized the 2017 Venice Biennale, will reportedly no longer be director of Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Musée Nissim de Camondo roughly two years after stepping into the top role of both institutions. According to the French-language Journal …
Inigo Philbrick (L) in 2016 before he was sent to prison for the biggest art fraud in US history. courtesy Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still resonate. On Tuesday, a US …
Charli xcx and Troye Sivan. Redferns Charli xcx’s Brat tour is making an unexpected stop this Thursday at Storm King Art Center, a popular sculpture park in New York’s Hudson Valley. “nyyyyyyy I want to play my new album : ) shall we go upstate?” the pop star asked her 6.4 million Instagram followers on …
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Joan Agajanian Quinn in her Beverly Hills home. Photo Ryan Pfluger For nearly 50 years, Joan Agajanian Quinn has asked the questions that everyone wants to answer. A consummate journalist, she was the West Coast editor at Interview magazine, a society editor at the LA Herald Examiner, and host of the TV interview shows Joan …
Ambera Wellman, Simper, 2016. Courtesy Phillips. Last week, Phillips held two back-to-to back sales of contemporary art at its New York headquarters, generating $7 million in total sales with fees. These auctions may not be as closely watched as the November evening sales by Phillips and its competitors, but they provide a window onto trends …
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The Scythian-like burial mound found in Tuva, Siberia. Photo Trevor Wallace A 2,800-year-old burial containing the remains of an elite individual was identified in Siberia. Experts believe that the culture responsible for the burial would have been closely related to the Scythians, a group of nomadic tribes who lived in the Eurasian steppe in antiquity, …
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A visitor to Frieze London walks past sculptures by Carol Bove at Gagosian’s booth. Photo Linda Nylind/Courtesy Frieze I often find it hard not to think of Halloween once October begins, when plastic pumpkins, spooky decorations, and cheap bags of candy start cropping up across the US. While Halloween doesn’t have quite the grip on …
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – SEPTEMBER 29: Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, walks onstage during a campaign rally at the Expo at World Market Center on September 29, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Harris and her opponent Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump have both been holding events in Nevada, a battleground state in …
