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1 month ago | 
thenation.com | Will Fenstermaker
Books & the Arts / March 6, 2025 Yto Barrada’s Rules of the GameThe artist’s installation at MOMA PS1 is not just a public work of art in the form of a playground but also comment on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy. Ad Policy
(Marissa Alper) On the day Yto Barrada’s commission Le Grand Soir opened at MoMA PS1, as we moved between passages of sunlight and shade, the artist watched a child leap from a stroller and bolt onto the installation.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Will Fenstermaker
NowEU Emergency Talks, S.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
frieze.com | Will Fenstermaker
Kelly Akashi | Lisson Gallery | 20 February – 29 MarchFor her first exhibition at Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles-based artist Kelly Akashi wanted to make an intimate body of work.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Will Fenstermaker
From rare book posters to fashion items with extraordinary provenance, the GOAT picks his favorite lots coming to auction this week. The Luxury Sales at Sotheby’s New York are anchored this year by a collection of watches and game-worn sports memorabilia spanning Tom Brady’s historic NFL career. With the sales on view in Sotheby’s galleries December 5-10, Brady was given a preview of the incredible books, wine, watches, jewels, handbags, sneakers and fashion items coming to auction.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Will Fenstermaker
Since the renaissance, Western painters of landscapes have built compositions around a fixed point from which everything gains its coherence. In shan shui (mountain-water), a classical Chinese genre of landscape painting developed during the Six Dynasties period (220–589), the world is indeterminate, emergent, in flux.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Will Fenstermaker
A special limited-edition pocket watch pays homage to the Japanese brand’s 100 years of innovative watchmaking. When the Shokosha Watch Research Institute set about launching a homegrown pocket watch to satisfy the growing Japanese market, they wanted a name that would represent the company’s egalitarian ambitions. Shinpei Goto, the mayor of Tokyo, had an idea. He told them to call it Citizen. Released in 1924 for ¥12.5 (¥20,000 today), the Citizen pocket watch was an unmitigated success.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Will Fenstermaker
A special limited-edition pocket watch pays homage to the Japanese brand’s 100 years of watchmaking. When the Shokosha Watch Research Institute set about launching a homegrown pocket watch to satisfy the growing Japanese market, they wanted a name that would represent the company’s egalitarian ambitions. The mayor of Tokyo, Shinpei Goto, had an idea. He told them to call it Citizen. Released in 1924 for ¥12.5 (¥20,000 today), the Citizen pocket watch was an unmitigated success.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Will Fenstermaker
Twice a year in Venice, Los Angeles, during the mid-century revival of the bohemian enclave, an artist couple organized an outdoor market on Abbot Kinney Boulevard to sell their ceramic wares. For Michael Frimkess, that meant stylized sculptures drawn from classical forms that he fired in a homemade kiln. By the late 1970s, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess was on to something much stranger.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Will Fenstermaker
‘My homes are art,’ Whitney Siegel insists of the mirror-clad passive houses she builds in the Santa Fe suburb of Española. Each is hermetically sealed to maintain a carefully calibrated climate. Air conditioning is forbidden; appliances must abide by strict energy codes to maintain their eco-friendly German certification. The structures blend so seamlessly into the high-desert vista that birds regularly crash into their facades. Whitney’s mission?
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
sothebys.com | Will Fenstermaker
There’s the $139 million portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter that Pablo Picasso painted in 1932, his single most pivotal year. There’s the $42 million self-portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of only a few paintings in which the artist identified the subject as himself. There’s Claude Monet’s luminous, $30.8 million landscape of the river Epte that prefaces his defining Nymphéas series.
