Shaping the Future of Museums in a Changing World
USF’s Museum Studies MA prepares students to lead artistic, cultural, and heritage organizations in today’s dynamic social landscape.
Tag: artist
Mark Whalen’s Path to the “Lighthouse”
It seemed a like a totem of survival, assertive and singular, a sequoia after a forest fire. Mark Whalen, who lost his home in the Altadena fire that ravaged the eastern portion of Los Angeles in early 2025, and his body of work, Lighthouse, have the context of strength and fortitude, but also something quite personal and reflective. The centerpiece 16-foot sculpture, created as a commission for Red Car and part of a group of sculptures shown as part of a presentation with Harper’s for Frieze Week in LA, shows what Whalen has as a storyteller: the stacking of pieces of a thought, they way a whole comes together with the disparate pieces of a puzzle to make do from.…
Art Professionals Scramble As New Trump Tariffs Against Canada, Mexico and China Go Into Effect
A 25% tariff now applies to any art imported to the US from Canada and Mexico.
Máret Ánne Sara to Bring Sámi Art and Activism to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall This Fall
Sara made headlines in 2017 with Pile o’ Sápmi Supreme, a haunting installation of 400 bullet-pierced reindeer skulls displayed outside the Norwegian Parliament.
NADA New York Announces 111 Exhibitors, New Location for 2025 Edition
The fair’s 11th edition is scheduled to run May 7–11.
Sotheby’s Successful Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in London Nets $78.6 M., Shows Green Shoots for Art Market
Sotheby’s CEO Charlie Stewart said the result was “good for London.” “This evening’s tone felt different, it was positive,” he said.
Banksy artwork inspired by Jack Vettriano sells for $5.4 million at Sotheby’s.
Banksy’s Crude Oil (Vettriano) (2005), a rare, handpainted work sold for £4.3 million ($5.4 million) at Sotheby’s modern and contemporary evening auction in London on March 4th (all prices include fees). The artwork, which came from blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus’s private collection, takes inspiration from The Singing Butler (1992) by the late Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, who passed away at 73 earlier this week.
Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening auction totaled £62.5 million ($78.62 million), with more than half of the works making their auction debut. One standout debut was Alberto Burri’s Sacco e Nero 3 (1955), smashing its high estimate of £3.5 million ($4.4 million) when it sold for £4.9 million ($6.2 million).
Crude Oil (Vettriano) is Banksy’s environmentally-conscious reworking of Vettriano’s most famous work. Vettriano’s original painting features a couple in formal dress dancing across a beach accompanied by a butler and a maid. In Banksy’s reimagined painting, the maid is replaced with two figures in yellow hazmat suits carrying what appears to be a barrel of toxic waste.
The top lot of the evening was Yoshitomo Nara’s Cosmic Eyes (in the Milky Lake) (2005), which sold for £9 million ($11.4 million). The work, one of the first to feature the artist’s signature rainbow-colored eyes, sparked a 10-minute bidding war.
Meanwhile, South African artist Lisa Brice achieved a new artist record, with After Embah (2018) fetching £5.4 million ($6.8 million) after a 10-minute bidding war between six potential buyers. The painting’s pre-sale estimate was £1 million–£1.5 million ($1.2 million–$1.9 million). This work nearly doubles the artist’s record set when No Bare Back, after Embah (2017) sold for $3.1 million at Sotheby’s in 2021.
Six bidders battled over German Surrealist Max Ernst’s bronze sculpture Moonmad (1975–76), which tripled its estimate when it sold for £2.1 million ($2.7 million). The work, which depicts a jester-like figure, was last seen at auction at Sotheby’s in 1979. Several other sculptures surpassed their estimates throughout the night, including two bronzes from Auguste Rodin: Éternel printemps (1894) and Cariatide à la pierre (ca. 1889–93), which sold for £1.3 million ($1.6 million) and £698,500 ($878,608), respectively.
Sara Anstis and the “Bath”
Perrotin Tokyo is pleased to present Bath, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by London-based artist Sara Anstis (b. 1991 Stockholm). This is her first presentation with the gallery.
Visitors Commune with the Forest Canopy in a Four-Story Treehouse in Arkansas
Elevated walkways and lookouts connect visitors to the surrounding Ouachita Forest.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Visitors Commune with the Forest Canopy in a Four-Story Treehouse in Arkansas appeared first on Colossal.