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4 weeks ago | 
mutualart.com | Lina Ghotmeh |Martine Gutierrez |Miranda July |Theaster Gates Jr.
Lina Ghotmeh. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / MussklprozzThe French Lebanese architect will design the third new structure in the Venice Biennale Giardini in 50 years. Ocula >Around 50 artists working across disciplines including photography, video, sculpture, painting and installation received the coveted fellowships. The Art Newspaper >Elaine Wynn, the co-founder of Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts, billionaire philanthropist and art collector, has died.
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2 months ago | 
mutualart.com | Maya Garabedian
Frieze LA is something Angelenos look forward to year after year. The fair, which has had a well-established home at the Santa Monica Airport since 2023, returned last week (February 20-23). As usual, VIP preview days were Thursday and Friday before the fair opened to the ticket-buying public for the weekend.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
mutualart.com | David Lynch
It starts with an idea. A feeling. A fleeting vision grasped from the amorphous depths of dreams. Some small spark flickering in the darkened void of the subconscious. As long as one stays true to that initial artistic visitant, that is all that truly matters, and all will eventuate exactly how it should.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
mutualart.com | Maya Garabedian
A key figure in Feminist and Ecofeminist Art movements, Faith Wilding, is finally having her first career-spanning show in New York City: Inside, outside, alive in the shell. This retrospective, covering five decades of creative practice, is her third solo exhibition with Anat Ebgi, on view until March 1.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
mutualart.com | Jean-Michel Basquiat |Gustav Klimt |Claude Monet |Ed Ruscha
The art world reached new heights in 2024, with breathtaking auction sales showcasing masterpieces from a variety of artistic movements and eras. Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half led the pack with a record-breaking $68.2 million at Christie’s, symbolizing the evolution of American culture from the Wild West to modern industrialism.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
mutualart.com | Edvard Munch
Despite the fact that The Scream is one of the world’s most famous paintings, the rest of Edvard Munch’s oeuvre remains relatively unknown outside of his more fervent followers. Which is somewhat surprising considering that many of his pieces possess the same intensity, the same fearless exploration of the fragility of the psyche, the same tortured cry into the seething void that is the human condition.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
mutualart.com | Yto Barrada |Kathleen M. Ryan |Leonardo da Vinci
Everything you need to know about the most important headlines from the world of art in the last seven days
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Nov 28, 2024
Caravaggio, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, 1598, Oil on canvas. A portrait by the artist had a public debut in Rome on Friday, after decades hidden away in a private collection. Now Italy wants to buy it. The New York Times >Work showing man hanging from window ledge appeared in 2006 on wall of listed Georgian property.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
mutualart.com | Jean-Michel Basquiat |Maurizio Cattelan |Claude Monet
Everything you need to know about the most important headlines from the world of art in the last seven days
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Nov 21, 2024
Adrien Meyer, Christie’s Global Head of Private Sales and Co-Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, sells the top lot of the evening, Rene Magritte’s L'empire des lumières for $121,160,000. Courtesy of Christie's. A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
mutualart.com | Michael Pearce
With high demand and prices near $100,000, American artist Banjo makes innovative glass sculptures that have evolved into fine art, blending pop-surrealism and cannabis culture
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Nov 20, 2024
Even collectors with taste for the edge and thrill of outlaw life may be surprised to find fine art emerging from the peculiar realm where galleries and innovative glass meet the heady highs of hashish.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
mutualart.com | Cecily Brown |Pablo Picasso |Gerhard Richter |Cy Twombly
Significant works and market trends in upcoming modern and contemporary sales
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Nov 12, 2024
The art market is set to heat up this fall with major auction houses gearing up for a series of highly anticipated sales across New York. With offerings from 20th-century masters to contemporary icons, these sales serve as a bellwether for both market trends and collectors' tastes as we approach the end of the year.