Phillips to offer REPLICATOR by Mad Dog Jones, the first NFT in company history
Still image from Generation 1 of REPLICATOR. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Phillips announced the sale of REPLICATOR by Mad Dog Jones, the first NFT to be offered by the auction house in company history. With an opening bid of $100, the work was created with the ability to generate new unique NFTs from itself every 28 days. REPLICATOR will be offered in an online-only auction, open for bidding to collectors around the globe on phillips.com from 12-23 April.
Edward Dolman, Phillips Chief Executive Officer, said, Phillips is pleased to begin our NFT journey with such a hugely celebrated digital artist who has both shaped and transcended the crypto community. REPLICATOR is a first-of-its-kind work to appear at auction, redefining the expectations of a work of art as it draws a compelling relationship between medium and form. We look forward to bringing this exciting project to new
Robert Berry Gallery announces its new virtual exhibition Tales of Adjusted Desire
David Carbone, Orphic Agon.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Robert Berry Gallery, a premier New York City-based art gallery dedicated to innovative contemporary art, announced its new virtual exhibition Tales of Adjusted Desire curated by Robert Curcio of curcioprojects featuring David Carbone, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Kaoruko, and Terry Rodgers. The exhibit runs until May 9, 2021.
All the artists in Tales of Adjusted Desire are influenced by the world at large of mediated images mingling with a social media aesthetic creating a subtle anxiety that crosses boundaries. Each of the 12 works whether painting, prints, or mixed media are insights into a self that goes beyond any moral standards or historical margins for an adjusted desire. The come hither, lets have it all promises of images and social worlds we live in and our complex personal interior life together form a disorienting adjusted presence.
Stephenson s gathers estate treasures for April 9 Spring Decorative Arts Auction
Paulette Van Roekens, David and His World, a portrait of the artists son, SLL, 25½ x 21¾in (framed). Provenance: Estate of Davis Meltzer. Estimate $2,500-$5,000.
SOTHAMPTON, PA
.- This years edition of Stephensons popular Spring Decorative Arts Auction will be held live at the companys Southampton (suburban Philadelphia) gallery on Friday, April 9, with absentee and Internet live bidding available exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. The 451-lot sale features both fine and decorative art, Tiffany and other American silver, an outstanding selection of jewelry, more than 120 lots of furniture, including coveted Midcentury Modern productions; and many other treasures for collectors to discover. Most of the items set to cross the auction block were sourced from Philadelphia and other Mid-Atlantic estates and collections.
Flea circus contraptions to encore at Sworders Out of the Ordinary auction The Smallest Show On Earth , a collection of flea circus props and memorabilia from Professor Len Tomlin s Flea Circus at Belle Vue. Estimate £1,500-2,000.
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET
.- Numbering close to 600 lots, the Out of the Ordinary auction at Sworders on April 13-14 is the largest to date. In keeping with the name of the popular format, the sale brings together the weird and the wonderful from an original Dalek from the Doctor Who series to a sword presented by Catherine the Great to a cossack who helped put down a popular rebellion and the Smallest Show On Earth - the UKs only surviving flea circus.
Review: Dreamy cowboys and a ballet bath
Elle Macy and Dylan Wald in Alejandro Cerrudos Future Memory. The work by Alejandro Cerrudo is part of the Pacific Northwest Ballet s latest digital program. Angela Sterling via The New York Times.
by Brian Seibert
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- It takes only two oscillating notes to establish a world. The coyote howl that Ennio Morricone wrote for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately conjures an idea of the American West: desert, tumbleweeds, gunslingers.
To hear those notes and see ballet pointe shoes thrown down like gauntlets is a joke. This is how Pacific Northwest Ballets latest digital program begins, with the Morricone theme playing over a montage of dancers rehearsing in masks, warming up, preparing for a show. The sequence is tongue-in-cheek but also establishes something serious: This excellent company is still at work, making and performing new dances.