Miami Art Week 2022: Highlights

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It’s time for Street Art and graffiti fans of all flavors to make their annual peregrination to that Mecca of murals and art fairs and performances on the street, Miami, during Art Basel. Specifically, we constantly roam through Wynwood, which began with a very healthy graffiti scene a couple of […]

Photographic tableau highlights historical injustices

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Nature Morte (Agriculture) and Nature Morte (Blackbird), from Australian photographic artist Michael Cook’s ‘Natures Mortes’ series, draw on visual strategies affiliated with the still‑life genre — particularly the memento mori, a visual reminder of the inevitability of death — to highlight the devastating impact of colonisation from an Indigenous point […]

our pick of the highlights from May’s sales

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Philip Guston, Nile (1958)Contemporary evening auction, Sotheby’s New York, 17 MayEstimate: $20m-$30m This Abstract Expressionist portray carries the best ever estimate for a get the job done by Philip Guston—his auction document stands at $25.9m, for To Fellini (1958) at Christie’s New York in 2013. Nile has been in the […]