Wet Paint: NFT Collective Whines Over Cryptopunks Sale, Coveted Young Artist Joins Hauser & Wirth, & More Art-World Gossip
Which art dealer is sitting courtside at Knicks playoff games? What famed artist-made house hit the market? Read on for answers.
Nine CryptoPunks at Christie s 21st-century evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christie s.
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Love them or hate them and believe you me, people do hate them!
NFTs have done one thing that unites disparate parts of the art market: make people rich. Sources said
ISBN: 9781597112093
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James Welling (Aperture) is a sensationally attractive book. It was published to coincide with a large survey exhibition of the artist’s work from the 1970s through 2012 that opened at the Cincinnati Art Museum and traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where I caught up with it. The main text by James Crump, is an exemplary account of Welling’s career to date: It proceeds in chronological order, series by series, with unflagging intellegence and critical acumen.
What gives Monograph its special allure are the 250 technically superb illustrations in black-and-white and color, which offer a brilliant tour d’horizon of Welling’s remarkably inventive, multifarious, often lyrically beautiful production. No one persuing this dazzling and substantial book could possibly doubt that Welling ranks among the foremost photographic artits in the world today.–Michael Fried”Artforum” (12/01/2014)
Sale Date:
Starting next week,
Sotheby’s will host “
Natively Digital” a weeklong online auction foregrounding 28 influential new media artists whose works surface the historical roots and future prospects of NFTs as a medium. Anchoring the sale is
Quantum, a generative digital animation backed by the
first non-fungible token ever minted.
The work’s origin is the 2014 edition of
Rhizome’s “Seven on Seven” conference, where
Kevin McCoy and collaborator
Anil Dash premiered what they then (semi-ironically) called the monetized graphic (or “monegraph”) a digital image time-stamped and registered to its creator on the blockchain, allowing the artist to retain ownership (and be paid appropriately for authorized use) of a file that is otherwise by its nature infinitely replicable.
‘Grief and Grievance’ Shows Us Profound Visions of Black Suffering
At the New Museum, the exhibition, conceived by the late curator Okwui Enwezor, is a sobering look at the realities of Black grief, but fails to address its root cause
‘Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America’ is
a big, Black, 37-artist exhibition conceived by esteemed curator Okwui Enwezor and completed after his death by a curatorial committee including Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon and Mark Nash. As it stands, however, the exhibition feels rather like a finely wrought time capsule: an A-list crew of artists presenting genuinely moving, profound visions of Black grief, but without the sense of immediacy that the pandemic has instilled in racial politics. And although racial capitalism is obviously of concern to the exhibition’s theme – the nexus of Black grief and white grievance – the ongoing labour struggles within
Group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley on view at Regen Projects
Installation view of Make-Shift-Future, curated by Elliott Hundley at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, March 27 May 22, 2021. Photo: Evan Bedford, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Regen Projects presents Make-Shift-Future, a group exhibition curated by Elliott Hundley, featuring Kevin Beasley, Elaine Cameron-Weir, rafa esparza, Max Hooper Schneider, Eric N. Mack, Alicia Piller, Eric-Paul Riege, and Kandis Williams. I am interested in studying ancient literature because, like speculative fiction, it can massage loose the underpinnings of our attachments to pervasive contemporary mythologies, so that we might gain a clearer view of ourselves and reveal the blind spots. So many blind spots.