Brooke Lampley Emma Marie Jenkinson Brooke Lampley, the global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, will leave the auction house at the end of May for a Senior Director position at Gagosian, ARTnews has learned. Lampley joined Sotheby’s in 2018 after having worked as a specialist at Christie’s where, in 2015, she began leading …
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Ophelia Arc: i love beginnings!, 2023, latex, thread, Arcoroc Canterbury Dinner Plate impression, silicone, 100 pieces of human hair, rusted razor blade, scan of journal spread (6/24/15), photo (5/14/13), photo (6/29/15), scan of letter (7/1/15), scan of note (2015), ripped out page of Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, 32 by 40 inches. Courtesy 81 …
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Sotheby’s art handlers hold Leonora Carrington’s “Les Distractions de Dagobert” during a media preview for Sotheby’s upcoming “New York Marquee Evening Sales” on May 3, 2024, in New York City. AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES CARRINGTON’S SURREAL NIGHT. The Surrealist artist Leonora …
Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Musuem and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana on May 12, 2024. Getty Images Repatriation ceremonies tend to be bureaucratic affairs done for show—the deal to return a looted artwork is conducted long before the object is …
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Joshua Serafin’s VOID (2022– ), as seen at the Venice Biennale. Photo Andrea Avezzù/Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia There have been many talked-about works at the current Venice Biennale, from a Golden Lion–winning Mataaho Collective installation formed from tie-downs to an assortment of abstractions by under-recognized artists. But just one piece in the show has …
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Courtesy Christie’s To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES STEADY GROUND. Christie’s evening sales on Thursday fell firmly within estimates, bringing in $413 million, reports Daniel Cassady for ARTnews. While bidding was not as fast and furious as a few years ago, the event suggests the art market …
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity (1995) Bonhams Infinity, a never publicly seen painting by Yayoi Kusama is coming to auction at Bonhams’ Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong next week. The red-and-black painting from 1995 comes with an estimate of over $5 million. The painting is a rare example of Kusama combining two of her most well-known motifs, dots …
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 15: Billie Eilish performs onstage during “Hit Me Hard And Soft” Album Release Listening Party at Barclays Center on May 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ABA) Getty Images for ABA A video that appeared to be promoting the the pop star Billie Eilish‘s …
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The screening of “Aggro Dr1ft” at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York. Photos by Mike Vitelli. Courtesy of EDGLRD. Context is everything, and filmmaker Harmony Korine is certainly building a lot of it around Aggro Dr1ft, the film he first premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, Korine took the film on tour, …
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Matthew Barney, Sanguine Atlas, 2024. Photo David Regen/Courtesy the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler Making his way through his new studio a few weeks back, Matthew Barney stopped to inspect a strange set of alchemical dumbbells and tried to describe the elements of stress, vulnerability, and frailty he …
