Mel Bochner, a conceptual artist who incisively explored the slippery relationship between language and art, died on February 12 at 84. His death was announced on Friday by three of his galleries, Fraenkel, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, and Peter Freeman Inc. Bochner was one of the key artists associated with the Conceptualist movement during the 1960s and ’70s. In legendary pieces that hardly looked much like art at all, he offered measurements, numbers, words, and others’ photocopied drawings within galleries. There was often little to admire, and that was intentional—Bochner wanted viewers to think of art as being more than…
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The secondary market today is driven by two things: quality and prestige. Often those two things are tied together; after all, the most well respected collectors are usually those with the best collections. When such marquee collectors die, it’s inevitable that Christie’s and Sotheby’s try to outmanuever each other for the estates’ business, as seems to be the case right now over the collection of Barnes and Noble co-founder and former ARTnews Top 200 collector Leonard Riggio, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the negotiations. Riggio, who passed away in August 2024, was a profound collector of the Minimalists and a…
There is a reason the Goonies never say die.After decades of rumors, it looks like The Goonies sequel may actually happen, as Warner Bros. has recruited Potsy Ponciroli to write the screenplay for the film.Per Variety, “Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario will produce for Amblin Entertainment alongside Chris Columbus, who wrote the original “Goonies” script. Lauren Shuler Donner will executive produce.”At the moment there is no official synopsis for the film, nor is their a director attached.READ MORE: 20 Movie Sequels You Forgot ExistedThe Goonies, released in 1985, was directed by the late Richard Donner and written by Chris Columbus (from…
The Getty Museum has acquired its first artificial intelligence-generated photograph. The work Cristian en el Amor de Calle (2024), by queer Costa Rican photographer Matías Sauter Morera, depicts two young Latino men in blue leather jackets with gold embellishments in a bar or café. There is an intensity in the central figure’s outward gaze. The piece recalls the queer history of pegamachos, or cowboys from the Guanacaste Coast, who became renowned for their secret affairs with young gay men. Given their undercover lifestyle, anonymity is paramount to guarding the pegamachos’ safety. As such, Morera employed AI to create the work and…
Get ready to sink your teeth into one of the best horror films of last year on streaming.(I’m sorry. I’m legally required to include at least one bad pun in every blog post I write.)Robert Eggers’ remake of the classic silent horror film Nosferatu became one of the surprise hits of 2024, grossing over $175 million worldwide. Now, after just under two months in theaters, it’s set to debut on streaming later in February.Eggers’ version of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu — which was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula — stars Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, a vampire who sets his sights on a…
Bianca Rafaella’s paintings dance and flicker. Recognizable forms such as flowers move into focus amid a sea of pale, ephemeral-seeming marks. These large canvases communicate the British artist’s unique way of seeing: She is partially sighted and experiences nystagmus in her left eye, which creates involuntary movement. “My work shows how someone with very little distance vision can interact with paint through a completely tactile process,” Rafaella said in an interview ahead of “Faint Memories,” her first major solo show, on view through March 15th at Flowers Gallery in London. “My paintings show flowers, but they’re coming out of nowhere,”…
There are those special first movies from untested directors that showcase the breadth of their talent, that let the audience know immediately that this is a filmmaker whose work we ought to pay attention to — your Citizen Kanes, your Night of the Living Deads, your Saws, your Hereditarys. These movies are remarkable not just because they’re so good, but because it’s genuinely pretty hard to come out of the gate swinging like that. Most directors, even our most beloved ones, cut their teeth on franchise films or lesser ideas before launching their passion projects.It can be jarring to look…
It’s hard to classify which genre director Scott Derrickson’s “The Gorge” neatly slots into, given that it seamlessly switches between romance, action, horror, and political thriller with harmonious purpose. It follows Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Levi (Miles Teller), elite snipers tasked with standing guard at opposites over a gorge that contains unknown horrors. The two are strictly forbidden from interacting with each other, with the overseer of operations of the gorge, Bartholomew (Sigourney Weaver), commanding Levi to stay focused on the task at hand. The film takes its time to reveal exactly what lies beneath, focusing instead on how Drasa…
After nearly two years, Showtime’s hit series “Yellowjackets” is finally back for its third season. Though Season 1 was critically acclaimed, the second suffered from an unraveling narrative that oftentimes felt too chaotic for the grounded show this once was. (A classic example of a bloated sophomore season that didn’t understand that the languid pace and unanswered questions in its first were what made it so successful.) However, with Season 3, the show has allowed these questions to take hold again, slowing the series down and morphing it back into the show that captured viewers’ attention in 2021. Since escaping…
ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive Young Werther poster, which was designed by director José Lourenço and artist Simon Wilkinson. Following its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, the latest romantic comedy movie is now available to rent or own on digital platforms starting today. The Young Werther poster mimics a love note that one would carry folded in one’s pocket. Another incredible detail is that the text of the book the film is based on — The Sorrows of Young Wether — was turned into the poster’s textured background. It celebrates the romance film’s Valentine’s Day release…
