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Remember Us IV (Watch Your Head). Courtesy of Amar Singh Gallery/Christie s New York. Christie’s New York is adding a twist to its sale of Abstract Expressionist art by pioneers such as Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan today. Winning bidders will have the option to claim the free, unique NFTs that were inspired by the artists, where they hung out during their lifetimes, and how collectors might display their work today. The Hartigan NFT, for example, shows one of the artist’s paintings hanging above patrons at the old New York art bar the Cedar Tavern. ....
This week, my first as a fully vaccinated person, has been a flurry of jubilant pandemic-era firsts hugging an old friend, meeting new people, dining in Koreatown. Life after vaccination feels to me like the flipping of a switch. One day it was off; the next it was on. For many, the concept of “normal life” seems closer at hand than ever. And yet, the pandemic isn’t over. The march of death continues apace. Advertisement still dying in the pandemic. There’s Claudio Arturo Diaz, who worked four different jobs and was only one year away from his planned retirement. But not long after his 64th birthday, he began to feel ill. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 and, within a month, was hospitalized and put on a ventilator. He died April 4 three days after he would have became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. ....
Why This 31-Year-Old Gallerist Is Partnering With Christie s To Auction NFTs Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin Blockchain technology, when applied to art, actually helps the traditional art market, says gallerist and activist Amar Singh. Amar Singh Amar Singh built a career, and his eponymous London art gallery, with one goal in mind: to uplift women and LGBTQ+ post-war and contemporary artists. After four years spent quietly investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), on Friday Singh partners with anonymous feminist art group Rewind Collective and Christie’s to auction off 11 original paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Yvonne Thomas and Lynne Mapp Drexler, among others. Each work will be sold with an NFT accompaniment by Rewind Collective. Bidding starts at $100 per work, though Singh expects each piece will fetch at least six-figures. ....
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Ellen Choi, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, Melbourne, Florida. Jalynn Jaielle McDuffey, Coral Reef Senior High School, Miami, Florida (U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts). Elyse Yvonne Thomas, School for Advanced Studies-Wolfson, Miami, Florida (U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts). Is Perlman, Design & Architecture Senior High School, Miami, Florida (U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts). Stephen Adam Savage, Savage Home School, Port St. Lucie, Florida (U.S. Presidential Scholar in Arts). Elyse V. Soracco, Creekside High School, Saint Johns, Florida (U.S. Presidential Scholar in Career and Technical Education). Rohan R. Davidi, James S. Rickards High School, Tallahassee, Florida. “The 2021 Presidential Scholars represent extraordinary achievements for our extraordinary times,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “I am delighted to join President Biden in saluting these outstanding young people for their achievements, service, character an ....