Maya Pontone

21 hours ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed double-pedestal lamp became the most valuable piece by the famed American architect to sell at auction when it fetched $7.5 million at Sotheby’s modern art evening sale last night, May 13. Following a lively 11-minute bidding battle, the piece both surpassed its high estimate and more than tripled its previous 2002 sale price of $1.98 million, landing with a phone bidder via Sotheby’s Chairman Jodi Pollack.

23 hours ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

Tsai Yi-Wei was never formally introduced to traditional hand-glove puppetry. Instead, the art form was deeply intertwined with his upbringing in Taiwan, where he was raised by puppeteers who managed a touring troupe. Still, it wasn’t until he took an internship at the Taiyuan Asian Puppet Theatre Museum that he began pursuing the practice on his own.

1 day ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

A guerrilla ad campaign targeting disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams is sweeping across Brooklyn, one bus stop at a time.

2 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

When the pioneering artist-run feminist nonprofit A.I.R. Gallery launched a residency fellowship for emerging artists in the early 1990s, the first cohort consisted solely of one person, abstract photographer Tenesh Webber. Three decades later, the program’s cohort has expanded to six artists, who are currently exhibiting work at the gallery’s space in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

6 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

I gasped when I saw them: a pair of hermit crabs, poking out of resin-printed sculptures resembling a daisy and a gaping toad. I had been walking around the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair for over an hour after giving up on its no-frills map and resigning myself to plunging into the sea of gallerists, collectors, artists, and fair staff pushing snack carts.