ArtMaxwell Rabb“People want to touch it,” Thomas Kelly, director at Sean Kelly Gallery in Los Angeles, told Artsy, describing Brian Rochefort’s Falcon (2025)—one of three sculptures prominently featured in the gallery’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles in February. This visceral ceramic work is a riot of erupting textures and cracked glazes in lavender, teal, and rust, calling to mind an alien terrain. It’s typical of Rochefort’s practice, which encompasses sculptures and vessels that Kelly said feel “like they’re living, breathing.”. Rochefort’s work reflects a wider aesthetic trend: deformed and unpolished ceramics that ooze, rupture, and revel in disorder. These works,…
Author: ANGadmin
There is more to Scotland than sheep and haggis. For antiques and collectibles lovers, there is more to Scotland than bagpipes, haggis, and castles. Read on to learn about everything from Perthshire paperweights to vintage kilt pins in W.O.W. (WorthPoint in the Old World): Scotland’s Best Collectibles. Scotland: Lochs, Lore, & Legends The United Kingdom boasts a plethora of antique and collectible finds from north to south, with Scotland in the north as no exception. Being in the chilly north of the island of Great Britain, Scotland is sometimes forgotten about by tourists set on just seeing the lavish royal…
Authorities in Peru are searching for the vandal responsible for spray-painting the image of a penis onto a wall of Chan Chan, an ancient archaeological city 300 miles north of Lima. The vandalism, which was filmed, was dealt to one of the original walls of the more than 600-year-old pre-Columbia city. The Chan Chan Archaeological Zone is operated by Peru’s Ministry of Culture, and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to Artnet, a video appeared on Facebook on May 12 of an individual wearing a white t-shirt, and carrying a black backpack, marking a large section of the…
Disney has made no secret of its changing strategy toward streaming in the last year or two. When Disney+ first debuted, the company allocated an enormous amount of resources to produce movies and shows exclusively for streaming. In the last year or two, they’ve openly discussed shifting a lot of those resources back to content that can debut in theaters first, and then move to streaming.That change is evident each month when Disney unveils the new batch of content coming to Disney+. There’s just not that much new stuff in these dispatches lately, especially when compared to a couple of years ago.In June of 2025, there will…
The last three years have been a period of profound sadness for Teresa Iarocci Mavica, the former director of the Moscow-based V-A-C Foundation, which she co-founded in 2009 with Leonid Mikhelson. He’s one of Russia’s richest men and a close ally of Vladimir Putin. At V-A-C, Mavica was responsible for building the GES-2 House of Culture, Russia’s biggest contemporary art museum, of which she was also director. In November 2021, however, just one month before it opened, Mavica resigned, citing “exhaustion.” Then, three months later, just as Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Italian curator left her adopted…
South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa has been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025. The announcement was made at The Photographers’ Gallery in London on May 15th. The prize, which amounts to £30,000 ($39,890), is awarded to a living artist whose work has influenced international contemporary photography within the past year. Sobekwa was selected for his recent book, I carry Her photo with Me, which was published by London-based publishing house MACK in 2024. Sobekwa started I carry Her photo with Me when he found a family portrait with his older sister’s face cut out. This photograph is the…
“In a nutshell,” says Dr. Faye Miller to Don Draper during the fourth season of “Mad Men,” “it all comes down to what I want versus what’s expected of me.” But what if you are terrified of the things you want, and what if doing what’s expected of you does constant damage to those you love? This push-pull is the driving force of the new Prime Video/A24 comedy “Overcompensating,” created by and starring Benito Skinner as a college freshman caught between the closet and the rest of his life. And despite the occasional unevenness, it’s one of the most promising…
New York’s marquee spring auction week, which began on Monday, May 12th, has not been without its disappointments. But one bright spot lifted the mood at Christie’s 21st-century evening sale on Wednesday, May 14th: Marlene Dumas’s Miss January (1997)—a portrait of a blonde woman nude from the waist down—soared to $13.63 million, setting a new auction record for an artwork by a living woman artist. (All prices include fees.) The previous record for a living woman artist was held by Propped (1992) by Jenny Saville, which sold for £9.5 million ($12.69 million) at Sotheby’s London in 2018. The sale is…
It seems like every month, there’s an exciting new 4K re-release or a newly restored rediscovery that’s reaching audiences for the first time. But the busy calendar of film restorations is more of a recent development in the history of the field that’s just about to celebrate its first centennial. Margaret Bodde, executive director of The Film Foundation, remembers a story Martin Scorsese told her that inspired his interest in film preservation when he lived in Los Angeles in the 1970s. “He went to a screening at LACMA that Ron Haver put together. I think it was the 20th Century…
NYCJAOS Spring 2025 was the show’s biggest event ever, despite happening in a moment of major political uncertainty. I took 2,000 photos/videos (yes, I’m ridiculous) and I can’t wait to share my favorites with you! The week of the Spring 2025 NYC Jewelry, Antique, and Object Show (NYCJAOS) began under a cloud of uncertainty: the US President had just announced an aggressive new tariff plan and the jewelry industry was panicking. I wasn’t sure what the mood would be at NYCJAOS, but the reality was beautiful. Everyone banded together: I saw dealers literally holding hands and comforting each other, shoppers…
