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.- The New Museum is proud to present Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. On view from February 17 to June 6, 2021, Grief and Grievance is an intergenerational exhibition bringing together thirty seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. The exhibition further considers the intertwined phenomena of Black grief and a politically orchestrated white grievance, as each structures and defines contemporary American social and political life. Included in Grief and Grievance are works encompassing video, painting, sculpture, installat
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She married into one of the most famous American dynasties of the 20th century, so it is no surprise that Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the third wife of the automotive millionaire Henry Ford II, acquired a stunning collection of artworks, interiors and homeware in her lifetime. Now, over 650 pieces from her three homes - Turville Grange in the English countryside (once the home of Lee Radziwill and her husband Prince Stanislas), a mansion flat in London s Eaton Square and a beach house in Palm Beach, Florida - are to go up for auction in two sales by Christie s in New York and London.
Auctioneer Oliver Barker holding court over Sotheby s global e-auctions. Courtesy of Sotheby s.
The art trade is defined by far more than its uppermost echelon. But in an unprecedented year when virtually ever major auction went… well, virtual, top prices serve as a valuable benchmark and an indication that the world’s wealthiest did not view 2020 as a roadblock to spending big money on art.
If we’re judging by auction prices alone, though, the market was still considerably less frothy at the high end this year than in 2019. Last year, nine of the 10 priciest lots brought over $50 million each (and the 10th, a David Hockney painting, fell short by a hair). This time around, as flexible and jittery consignors alike opted to hold back their best material, only two lots exceeded $50 million.