Sentences with phrase «artwork by a living artist»

It is the current world record for a single artwork by a living artist ever sold at an auction ($ 58.4 million).

The Whitney Museum has a policy not to sell artwork by a living artist in case it would negatively impact the artist's career, but it has a policy in which works can be acquired through exchanges.

On Tuesday evening at Christie's alone, 10 artists attracted record prices for their works, including Willem de Kooning and Jeff Koons, whose sculpture «Balloon Dog (Orange)» fetched $ 58.4 m, a world record for a single artwork by a living artist.

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In addition to a farm - to - table - style dinner prepared by Ipswich chef Christopher DeStefano, the event will feature silent and live auctions with paintings and artwork donated by talented local artists.

The inside has beautiful artwork produced by local artists, and you can catch live performances by local musicians pretty often.

We're not here to say whether or not it's acceptable for you to place the value of the artwork strictly by what you know about the artist's personal life.

I invested in the artwork by hiring a freelance artist who's well known for her fantasy, wild life and particularly gryphon artwork.

The expansive living area is furnished with utmost taste and attention to detail, from carefully crafted artworks by renowned Mexican and international artists to the coffee table detailed like the spine of an exotic beetle.

One of Downtown Napa's most unique features includes the Napa ARTwalk, where larger - than - life artwork created by artists from the Western US are displayed throughout Downtown.

Especially for artists like myself that do not fit into any particular box that may have been defined by the fine art world, the Internet has become a necessity in order to survive and make a living from my artwork due to the fan base I've managed to have gained.»

By engaging the discourse of sculpture through the tools of cinema, the video follows the lives of «related» artworks and recounts the conditional relationships between artist, artwork, and third - party agents (institution, caregiver, surrogate) in familial terms.

The show also includes photographs and videos, film clips, musical references, as well as artworks by renowned artists, from public and private collections, that have triggered the designer's imagination throughout his life and career.

The exhibition showcases artwork by the seven finalists competing for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, a $ 25,000 fellowship given each year to a visual artist or visual arts collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region.

When Pace sold the work to the Whitney Museum in 1980 for $ 1 million, the painting set a record for the priciest artwork ever sold by a living artist.

This exhibition brings together a collection of artworks by artist Erin Gleason that critically challenge our relationship to measured space and time versus our lived experience of it.

She has also authored several books on China's contemporary art scene and its history including As Seen 2011: Notable Artworks by Chinese Artists (Beijing World Publishing Corp., 2012 / Commercial Press 2012) and Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant - Garde Art in New China (Scalo, 2006, Timezone 8, 2008).

This post features a review of The Successful Artist's Career Guide, a book by Margaret Peot all about how to earn a productive, joyful living with your artwork.

In 1989, her work Oozewald was sold for $ 6.6 million, making it the highest priced artwork ever sold by a living female artist.

Deadline: June 15 Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans will host their highly anticipated annual exhibition of artwork by living emerging artists based in the United States.

Works include a graphic score and inscribed Buddhist singing bowls by Biggers; process notations and studio ephemera by Lee Boroson; two edible drawings, a musical score, and instruments for preparing a piano by Cage; three instructional certificates of authenticity by Felix Gonzalez - Torres; an agreement for a living artwork by Paula Hayes; a reanimation of Lucy Lippard's reference materials from the exhibition catalogue for 955,000; a book of instructions by Yoko Ono; five artist books by Edward Ruscha; a photograph by Xaviera Simmons (Bard B.F.A. «04); a muster contract, field desk, Zouave rifle, and muster roll by Allison Smith; a recipe by Rirkrit Tiravanija; eight compositions by La Monte Young; and a realization of George Brecht's event score Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event) with Xaviera Simmons and members of The Surrealist Training Circus.

Sometimes influenced by the European movements, artists and approaches, these artworks have become the icons of the popular culture, entwined in all spheres of life decades after their creation as the proud representations of the American people and spirit.

Artworks presented will be by artists who live or practice in southeast Queens as well as those who have strong connections to the area.

Identified by the well - known art historian John McGregor as a great American Outsider Artist, Dwight Mackintosh began making artwork late in life and after spending over fifty - five years in institutions.

In the midst of the artworks live piano music is heard — played according to precise instructions from the artist and witnessed by an incongruous marathon runner who periodically passes through the museum.

This exhibition with artworks by fifteen artists from seven nations outlines aspects of human living together in densely populated urban areas, and in the rapidly growing great cities of China in particular.

In their selection of Kehinde Wiley, for Mr. Obama's likeness, and Amy Sherald, for Mrs. Obama's, announced Friday, the Obamas continue to highlight the work of contemporary and modern African - American artists, as they so often did with the artworks they chose to live with in the White House, by Glenn Ligon, Alma Thomas and William H. Johnson, among others.

All artwork and programming presented in Past Live has been conceived of and created by the artists since they began SHIFT Residency in August 2016.

The Medina - born artist depicts Saudi daily life through her art by successfully altering original artworks into her own with the added twist of her go - to media, candy wrappers.

A still life photograph of a bouquet of flowers, referencing a work by Bas Jan Ader, is installed on a wall made to the artists specifications, which is based on a work by Christopher D'Arcangelo that involved the construction of a wall for the purpose of displaying others artworks.

[1] Claiming that this privileged space had become nothing more than an «ossified custom» — a «commercial depot» for curators and dealers to ship works out into the world (and thus detach the artwork from the conditions of production and site of creation)-- Buren stated that artists could only resist the domestication of their work by preserving it within their studios forever (like Constantin Brancusi) or abandoning the four walls of the studio altogether for a life of art making away from institutional repression and commodification.

Chagall: Love, War & Exile will be opening on September 15, 2013, at the Jewish Museum with artworks created by the artist during the more difficult years of his life.

The Freedman Gallery seeks to create, expand, and engage our passion for personal expression, individual creativity, and intellectual curiosity through exposure to the highest quality of contemporary artwork by, primarily, living American artists.

Paul Funcken The extraordinary artwork made by Dutch artist Paul Funcken has come to life in the Residency at Artistic Foundry Salvadori Arte (Pistoia, Tuscany) from 7 to 23 June 2017...

Now a professional artist, he painstakingly hand - crafts every single piece to produce exquisitely intricate artworks inspired by everyday life.

Showcasing an extensive selection of artworks from the artist's oeuvre alongside new works, it will present a narrative informed by his life story and his approach to both the traditions of craftsmanship and art history.

That's the central theme of these striking artworks by Hale Güngör Oppenheimer, an artist originally from Mollis, Switzerland and now living and working in Stockholm, Sweden.

Speakers include graphic artist and illustration mastermind Jean Jullien, whose iconic» Peace for Paris» symbol became an instant global meme; children's book author and illustrator You Jung Byun, known for her detailed narrative and commissioned work inhabited by strange beasts and lost children; everyone's favourite gif - wunderkind Julian Glander, creator of bubblegum - coloured digital illustration, indie games and interactive artwork, all subsumed under the catchword «digital toys»; animator, writer, and producer Ben Bocquelet, creator of the famed animation series «The Amazing World of Gumball `; Martina Paukova, illustrator with an incredibly fast - paced career, whose jam - packed images in a trademark palette and Memphis - inspired patterns mirror our mundane lives in the digital age; and Jaime Álvarez, renowned for his 3D rendered Mr. Kat (PE) universe, fusing pre-Columbian with contemporary kawaii aesthetics.

Artworks that take the artist as their subject, often expanding upon the traditional self - portrait's intention to capture the artist's likeness by exposing his or her inner state, body, or minutiae of daily life.

For centuries, the art world and art market were dominated by men — just look at Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists, or, more recently, Jonathan Jones's all - male list of the greatest artworks ever — but that's beginning to change.

NAME: @loicgouzer AFFILIATION: Christie's postwar and contemporary art specialist WHY FOLLOW: As the curator of Christie's edgily branded «If I live I'll See You Tuesday» auction featuring fresh work by much - speculated - upon young artists, Gouzer ingeniously used his personal Instagram account to build anticipation for the sale by doling out sneak peeks of its 36 handpicked artworks in the run - up to the action.

By offering a flexible residency experience in addition to our standard residency programs, we hope to create multiple entry points for artists to create artwork amidst the ever - evolving and diverse demands of family life.

Recent works include: Bobby Niven's «Bothy Project» whereby he has created perfectly realised spaces for other artists to work and live in; Aaron Williamson's anarchic performance art often displays a politicised and progressive sensibility towards disability and is typically presented to an unsuspecting public as with his current «Demonstrating the World» mobile stage set; Ruth Ewan explores how the past connects to the present, with her recent creation of the French Republican Calendar allowing a beautifully constructed reframing of our daily lives; Henry Coleman pushes the boundaries and subverts the norm by creating very public, sculptural artworks in the heart of the city, including the 2015 Royal Academy installation «A Greater Order», that both question and confound.

[11] In 1988, Johns» False Start was sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $ 17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for a work by a living artist at auction, and the second highest price paid for an artwork at auction in the U.S. [32] In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago - based hedge fund Citadel LLC) bought False Start (1959) from David Geffen [33] for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.

Commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, The Living Pyramid is the artist's first major public artwork in New York City in three decades since her iconic urban intervention, Wheatfield — A Confrontation in 1982.

The exhibition featured a diverse range of artwork by women artists, both from South Asia and those living in the Diaspora.

Projects that engage the city as subject, including The Barnes Foundation's Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, capturing city life through a contemporary exhibition and installations in unexpected locations; curator Brian Phillips» Rowhouse Workshop, surveying the physical and social histories embedded in Philadelphia row homes; Philadelphia Mural Arts Program's Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition with public artworks created by artists such as Ai Weiwei and Zoe Strauss; and Philadelphia Assembled, a museum installation and off - site interactive art experiences reimagining the city, presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and artist Jeanne van Heeswijk;

Fine Art Connoisseur speaks directly to an audience of discerning consumers through engaging, dynamic editorial that explores with authority the highest - quality historical artworks and those created by the world's finest living artists.

Defying the long held idea that art is only made in the studio, FEEDBACK takes a fresh look at how the life of an artwork is shaped by the life of the artist.

An article on Sept. 25 about the Impasse Ronsin, an alleyway in Paris in which a number of famed artists of postwar France lived and worked in the 1950s and 1960s, described incorrectly the career of the artist Niki de Saint Phalle and the artwork she is shown creating by shooting at it with a.22 rifle.

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