Versus Medici (1982). Image courtesy Sotheby s.
Sotheby’s marathon series of auctions on Wednesday evening felt like something of a return to normalcy, if only because, for the first time in more than a year, there were actually a few dozen collectors present in the New York salesroom.
In keeping with our new reality, the sale was also very much a hybrid affair: auctioneer Oliver Barker beamed in from London and specialists manned phone banks in Hong Kong and London as well as New York.
The auction house packed three separate sales an estate offering, a postwar and contemporary art sale, and an Impressionist and Modern coda into a nearly five-hour marathon. In all, the evening generated $597 million a more than 60 percent increase on its equivalent megasale mid-lockdown last June. (Read our report on the Imp-Mod segment of the sale here.)
But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple
Monhegan museum summer exhibit: Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas Mon, 05/10/2021 - 12:45pm
Strisik, Paul (1918-1998), Monhegan Pier, 1959, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in., Monhegan Museum of Art & History, Gift of Nancy Strisik, 2002. (Photo courtesy Monhegan Museum of Art & History)
Gruppe, Emile (1896-1978), Gloucester Harbor, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in., Rockport Art Association & Museum Permanent Collection. (Photo courtesy Monhegan Museum of Art & History)
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MONHEGAN ISLAND Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies will explore the relationship between the historic and still-thriving art colonies of Monhegan, Maine, and Cape Ann, Massachusetts, featuring the work of artists connected with both places.
Who hasn’t had moments of self-examination during the past year?
“We had wonderful resources, and no way of sharing them,” says Cape Ann Museum’s director, Oliver Barker, recalling the time last spring when museums worldwide were forced to close. “Prior to the pandemic, we were analog,” he says. “We needed to find a way to use art, past and present, to engage people. We started by looking at what happened on Cape Ann in 1918.”
Illustrating Barker’s point, one of the most striking images in “CAM (Re)Connects,” an exhibition on view now at the Pleasant Street campus, is a simple photograph of the Addison Gilbert Hospital parking lot from the era of the devasting 1918 Spanish Flu. Filled with tents to handle the patient overflow from that deadly pandemic, it’s a reminder of what we’ve been through, and that others endured similarly in the past.
Quesnel To Take Part In This Years Curbside Free Your Things Weekend
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A unique way to help keep unused items out of the landfill is happening once again.
The Cariboo Chilcotin Conservation Society is putting on a curbside Free Your Things weekend this Saturday and Sunday.
Reusable items no longer wanted can be put at the end of your driveway with a free sign clearly visible so others can take it and re-use it.
Oliver Burger, Cariboo Chilcotin Conservation Society Chief Green Officer, said this year it won’t be limited to just residents of Williams Lake
“We had people asking us to do it again so we actually ran 2 last year which were super popular. Because Williams Lake had great success last year we have expanded out to Quesnel with the approval of the City for this year and hopefully maybe even for our next one in the Fall or later on, in the year we can expand to 100 Mile House. It’s all about getting people in the Cariboo area to participate and the more peopl