©Firelei Báez/Photo Amilcar Navarro/Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Firelei Báez, an artist whose lush paintings and sculptural installations have been seen widely in recent years, has joined Hauser & Wirth, the market juggernaut with more than a dozen galleries worldwide. Hauser & Wirth will show and sell Báez’s art globally, meaning that her longtime representative, New
CNN — Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” When you think of Western art’s grand visual narratives of humanity’s inception — and all its triumphs, beauty, tragedies and meaning — they likely look very White. This is because, for centuries, the artistic traditions
Opulently clad in a crimson tunic, the subject of Jan Jansz Mostaert’s “Portrait of an African Man” looks pensively, even imperiously, into the distance, his cream-gloved hands clasping a sword and purse — symbols of status and wealth. Captured in oils in 1525-30, he poses hand on hip with the “Renaissance elbow”, commanding space. Thought
Wisteria pearl and bronze earrings and Inca cuff. Greg Milano Studio Julie Cohn has been creating her art jewelry collections in her studio in Dallas, Texas, since 2011, a space she describes as an “artistic collective,” staffed with young artists she mentors as they take their first steps into creative careers. Inspired by the natural
I recently stumbled across a post claiming to state the “objective” differences between good art and bad art. As an ardent lover of art in all its forms – and who isn’t – I was very interested in seeing how this user quantified an inherently subjective topic. What I saw made me laugh. The user
(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Wed 6 September 2023 22:15, UK Stanley Kubrick‘s 1975 film Barry Lyndon is a masterclass in cinematography, an opulent visual spectacle that transports audiences into the 18th-century world of its protagonist. Yet what is equally fascinating is how it draws upon a rich tapestry of European fine art to create
A museum director in illegally annexed Crimea has been sanctioned because he is holding thousands of works from the Ukrainian city of Kherson, which was temporarily seized by Russian president Vladimir Putin’s forces late last year. Andrei Vitalievich Malgin, who was named by The Art Newspaper in February, was sanctioned by the European Union (EU)
Among the fall’s surveys of contemporary art, I’m most excited about “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living,” (Oct. 1 -Dec. 31) the sixth incarnation of the Hammer Museum’s always enlightening biennial survey of Los Angeles-area art. Its illustrated checklist — all there is to go on before a show actually opens — is palpable
Does the world need another jewelry fair? “That’s a very, very good question,” the French real estate investor and jewelry collector Richard Steeve Giraud said by phone recently from his home in London. Mr. Giraud, 62, is the founder and chief executive of ArtVendôme, scheduled to debut Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 in Paris. The
BerlinGetty Images 6. Berlin Berlin is a contemporary art lover’s dream. A long weekend – or an entire week, if you’ve got the stamina – can be wiled away just in the German capital’s spectacular galleries and museums. The open-air East Side Gallery houses the largest continuous section of the Berlin Wall. At the same