Southward Bound: As Art Institutions Explore New Frontiers in South L.A.,...
Construction underway in September 2018 at the future site of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park. COURTESY LUCAS MUSEUM On a quiet stretch of West Adams Boulevard in Los Angeles, the...
View ArticlePhillips Auction House Could Reset Mark Bradford Record Again
Mark Bradford, Helter Skelter II, 2007. COURTESY PHILLIPS Last week, Phillips auction house gave art lovers in Los Angeles the rare chance to see two sprawling mixed-media artworks by Mark Bradford...
View ArticleThe Broad Acquires David Hammons ‘African-American Flag,’ 50-Foot-Long Mark...
David Hammons, African-American Flag, 1990, dyed cotton. ©DAVID HAMMONS/COURTESY THE BROAD ART FOUNDATION The Broad in Los Angeles has acquired David Hammons‘s African-American Flag (1990), the first...
View ArticleMark Bradford on Painting with Paper
Portrait of Mark Bradford, 2020. End papers, small rectangular sheets of translucent paper that protect hair during the perm process, are the basis of Los Angeles–based painter Mark Bradford’s early...
View Article280,000 Viewers Watch Christie’s Live-Streamed $341 M. Evening Sale Featuring...
On Tuesday, 280,000 viewers tuned into the first major auction of the fall season live-streamed from Christie’s Rockefeller center headquarters. The evening sale, which combined modern and contemporary...
View Article9 Sales Highlights from This Year’s Art Basel in Switzerland
The world’s largest and most important art fair, Art Basel, opened earlier this week in the Swiss city, marking the marquee fair’s first in-person event in Europe since the start of the pandemic....
View ArticleNew Exhibition Focusing on ‘Legacies of the Great Migration’ Looks at...
“It can be said that every Black person in this country has been impacted by the Great Migration,” said Ryan Dennis, chief curator of the Mississippi Museum of Art, referring to the exodus of more than...
View ArticleSpike Lee, Swizz Beatz, Mark Bradford, and More Toast Gordon Parks’s Enduring...
The photographer Gordon Parks worked so prolifically that it is hard to imagine one artist producing so many high-quality works. “When we talk about Gordon Parks, it’s as if we’re talking about half a...
View ArticleIn Los Angeles, Artist Mark Bradford Launches a New Collaboration with Local...
Mark Bradford may be best known for working in abstraction, but the L.A.-based artist is committed to thinking through how to change the art world—and the world at large—in concrete, tangible ways....
View ArticleMark Bradford, Elizabeth Peyton and Kazuo Shiraga Top Healthy Sales at Art...
At the opening of Art Basel Hong Kong, collectors and museums returned to the fair’s latest edition with dealers reporting success in placing works across private and institutional collections based...
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