August 2020 – ARTDEALS

How Artist Lucien Smith, Fed Up With Speculators and Dealers, Quit His Galleries and Got His First Solo Museum Show

August 18, 2020

In 2013, just two years out of art school, the artist Lucien Smith had already become a cautionary tale. That year, his painting Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree set a stratospheric auction record at Phillips New York, when it sold for $389,000. Smith saw two more years of

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Editors’ Picks: 7 Things for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Ruth Asawa-Inspired Workshop to an Outdoor Photo Show

August 17, 2020

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health situation, we are currently highlighting digital events, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.) Monday, August 17—Sunday, November 29 In

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‘Landscapes Opened a Whole New World for Me’: Artist Shara Hughes on How She Subverts the Tradition of Flower Painting

August 17, 2020

Kaleidoscopic landscapes and riotous bursts of flowers are the signatures of Brooklyn-based artist Shara Hughes—scenes she creates entirely from her imagination. The artist’s third solo show with Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber, “Day By Day By Day,” opened in June, but she will not have seen it in person by the time it closes in September. “It’s very strange,”

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A Legal Battle Between a Scholar and an Art Institute Over Valuable Research on Amedeo Modigliani Is Heating Up

August 17, 2020

Any time the prized work of Italian artist Amedeo Mogiliani—one of the most expensive painters in the world—is involved in a dispute, the stakes are high. The latest round of legal fighting between a high-profile research institution and a famous Modigliani expert is no different. Just over two months after Modigliani scholar Marc Restellini sued

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A Pair of Michael Jordan’s Game-Worn Sneakers Sold for $615,000 at Christie’s, Setting a New Record for the Category

August 17, 2020

A pair of game-worn Michael Jordan shoes just shattered the record for most expensive sneakers ever sold at auction—which is particularly appropriate given that he was wearing them when he shattered a backboard in 1985. (In fact, they still have a piece of glass lodged in the sole.) Estimated to go for between $650,000 and

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‘We Are Having Trouble Living Without Fear’: Beirut’s Cultural Sector Starts to Pick Up the Pieces After the City’s Deadly Explosion

August 17, 2020

“I have made my analysis and Lebanon has Stage IV cancer,” I overheard a Lebanese economist, who was visiting Beirut from New York, quip darkly one afternoon last August. The devastating explosion on August 4 decimated large parts of Lebanon’s capital—but the country was already ailing badly in the year leading up to the disaster.

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Making Art in the Face of Eternity: 5 Famous Artworks That Incorporate Time, Evolution, and Entropy

August 17, 2020

Time has long been a subject that conjured up great art. From charting the rhythms of nature in cave art, to capturing the luminosity of sunrise or sunset, to imagining allegories of the stages of life, art has incorporated the passage of time as one of its great themes. Timepieces make a frequent appearance as

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Claudia Schiffer, a Top ’90s Supermodel, Is Curating a Show of ’90s Fashion Photography for a Dusseldorf Museum

August 17, 2020

The 1990s were a golden age for the fashion industry. The boundary-breaking decade saw the birth of the supermodel as well as countless quintessential looks—from neon clothing to grunge—which are seeing a revival among zoomers today. So who better to curate an exhibition about the period than German fashion icon Claudia Schiffer? The supermodel is

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Art Industry News: The Queen’s Prized Art Collection Will Be Shown Outside Her Palace for the First Time Ever + Other Stories

August 17, 2020

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, August 17. NEED-TO-READ Redbone Music Video Sparks Copyright Dispute – The Indigenous artist Frank Buffalo Hyde claims that a music video released this month for

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Diego Rivera’s ‘Flower Day’ Celebrates the Struggle of Post-Revolutionary Mexico—Here Are Three Things You Might Not Know About It

August 17, 2020

Mexican artist Diego Rivera casts a long shadow on the history of 20th-century art, capturing the energy of post-revolutionary Mexico with a style that improbably fused four influences: Aztec culture, Cubism, Renaissance frescos, and socialist realism. Among his many stylized pictures of working people, flower vendors are among his most famous subjects. Flower Day (Día

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