About half of the more than 40 artworks created by mentally disabled students in Hong Kong have been sold at an exhibition organised by an eminent charity and leading auction house Christie’s. Hong Chi Association, which serves people with intellectual disabilities, partnered for the first time with art and luxury auction house Christie’s on the…
For American painter Spencer Sweeney, the artistic process is less of a linear path and more of an improvised musical composition, filled with subconscious rhythm and unpredictable bursts of colour. This is perhaps unsurprising given that the 52-year-old grew up in a family of musicians and artists, and works as a painter and a DJ…
The cooler weather means it’s the perfect time of year to go traipsing around outside, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum has the perfect chill activity with its first outdoor exhibition. ‘The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: The Art Plaza Project at the Hong Kong Palace Museum’ is a multimedia initiative that extends the museum’s…
A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million at a New York art auction, becoming the top sale price for a work by any female artist. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled “El sueño (La cama)” or in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — surpassed…
Jane Birkin’s style moments Gallery / 17 images Decades before she became a mythical, ubiquitous image on moodboard platforms like Pinterest and Tumblr, Jane Birkin was an artist. Despite her talents beyond fashion, the doe-eyed, wispy-fringed Londoner quickly became a visual synonym for French-girl style. Perhaps it was because she seemed to be playing herself…
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 million. The toilet, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — went up…
A nightclub in eastern China has teamed up with local authorities to offer a marriage registration service, with electronic music festival tickets as a special gift. The Huangpu district civil affairs bureau in Shanghai has partnered with the nightclub INS Land to offer marriage registration and appointment services during two weekends starting on November 14….
Paul Mpagi Sepuya presented by LAND Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Untitled (2020-120), 2020. Color Laserprint Collage on Strathmore Bristol 100lb vellum paper, 19 x 24 inches. (Photo by Paul Mpagi Sepuya) Living leaves behind fragments, our personal archive of notes and recorded memories. In “Excerpts & Fragments,” the new exhibition presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division,…
More than a year after Mary McFadden’s death, the designer’s work is being spotlighted via two different initiatives. On Saturday, some of McFadden’s jewels were officially unveiled through a donation to the museum in Chestnut Hill, Pa., that is known simply as Woodmere. And earlier this month, the majority of her archive was moved to…
It’s safe to say that the world has been hit by Chanel fever. Three weeks ago, new creative director Matthieu Blazy made his debut for the French maison, presenting the label’s SS26 ready-to-wear offering at Paris Fashion Week. The collection was a huge success, with almost every corner of the internet praising Blazy’s modern take…