As car enthusiasts perused hundreds of unique vehicles along the Carmel coast, five auction houses sold a record $762 million in collector machines during Monterey Car Week this August, far exceeding the previous $471 million high set in 2022.
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In its third iteration, a six-person variation of anyyywayyy whatever was commissioned and performed at Amant in Brooklyn near the start of the autumnal equinox season. The artist is Barnett Cohen, who previously choreographed and wrote versions of this performance for Performissima at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (CWB) in Paris and theKunsthall Trondheim in Norway, both in 2024.
It had been seven years since this writer first heard the distinctive Aussie-inflected English of innovative master printmaker Sarah Amos.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of history's best-known artists. Despite struggles with depression and psychosis Van Gogh became a master of Post-Impressionism. Van Gogh paintings like The Starry Night dazzle and inspire anyone lucky enough to see them in person. The artist's colorful life and paintings make him a tragic yet compelling figure to modern audiences.
Eight prints from Henri Matisse’s celebrated 1947 Jazz series, valued at about $190,000, are back in the hands of Brazilian authorities after being recovered from an apartment in a suburb of São Paulo.
Caspar David Friedrich, like other Romantic painters, established landscape paintings as a dominant genre in Western art. Friedrich’s coming of age was during a time when materialistic society began to favor spirituality. The artist followed this shift in ideals through expressing the natural world as a divine creation, a separate entity from human civilization. As French sculptor David d’Angers said, he was a man who had discovered “the tragedy of landscape.”
New York–based artist and landscape designer Paula Hayes (1958) just unveiled her first-ever permanent public landscape installation at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York. Designated a National Historic Landmark and first designed in 1838 by architect Alexander Jackson Davis, Lyndhurst Mansion was originally built for former New York City mayor William Paulding Jr.
Between 1897 and 1926, Claude Monet painted approximately 250 waterscapes of his favorite subject towards the end of his life: Water lilies. The latter half of these paintings in particular are lauded as stunning feats in compositional experimentation and innovation.
From coconut palm leaves folded into ceremonial forms in Bali to brown ash splints woven into baskets in Maine and wool blankets woven across the Navajo Nation, a younger generation of artists is returning to textile techniques their ancestors perfected centuries ago. Museums, galleries, and design houses are all taking notice.
In the late 17th century, the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I purchased, in the words of Dutch Golden Age painter and biographer Arnoldus Houbraken, “a sublime work consisting of flowers, arms, eagles, crowns, decorated in foliage, of woven silk in a rustic manner, for which more than four thousand guilders were given.” That was more than double the sum of money that
