October 21, 2020

As auction houses continue to forge ahead with hybrid physical and digital auctions amid travel restrictions, they are putting serious time, effort and money into pulling off hyped-up, seamless live-streamed sales. Today’s effort by Sotheby’s, which started with a sale of modern art in Paris before moving on to a second offering of contemporary art

Emily Mae Smith’s Alien Shores, 2018. Courtesy Phillips. Phillips’s 20th century and contemporary evening sale closed in London on Tuesday, achieving a total of £26.3 million ($34 million). 36 out of 38 lots sold, for a sell-through rate of 95 percent by lot. The auction was led with works by Georg Baselitz, George Condo, and

All images © Catherine Panebianco, shared with permission Jamestown, New York-based photographer Catherine Panebianco compresses the space between family memories and her life at present through her series, No Memory Is Ever Alone. The moving collection features vast landscapes and unoccupied rooms with Panebianco’s continued intervention: in each shot, she holds up a photographic slide of

A sharp-eyed visitor to “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle,” an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has identified a long-lost artwork by the pioneering African American Modernist that was hiding in plain sight across the park from the museum. The lost painting, which belongs to Lawrence’s “Struggle” series (1954–56), was missing for 60 years, and has now been

When he stepped onto his first film set in the spring of 1974 at the age of 19, playing the part of Cassidy in Jaws, Jonathan Filley never could have imagined what was to come. After that first role as an actor, Filley found himself working on the other side of the camera, managing the nuts