ART FAIR NEWS
The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
Art Basel Miami Beach welcomed more than 75,000 visitors across its five days (down from last year’s reported attendance figure of 79,000). The fair brings to a close a packed Miami Art Week, which featured a slate of glitzy parties, events, and art fairs, including Untitled Art and NADA.
ART AUCTION NEWS
The 10 Most Expensive Works Sold at Auction in 2024
This year, the total price for the 100 most expensive lots sold at auction totaled just shy of $1.8 billion, compared to $2.4 billion in 2023 and $4.1 billion in 2022. Only one work—René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (1954)—sold for more than $100 million, compared to two last year and six works in 2022.
ART NEWS
Julieta Tarraubella's “cyborg-garden” @ ROLFART
Buenos Aires-based gallery Rolf Art presented "La vida secreta de las flores" ("The Secret Life of Flowers") by Argentinian-Peruvian artist Julieta Tarraubella. This series, described as a "cyborg-garden," utilizes time-lapse technology to document the metamorphosis of various flowers, blurring the lines between nature and technology. By closely examining the life cycles of these plants, Tarraubella reflects on themes of beauty and decay.
MoMA PS1 Receives $1 M. Gift from Teiger Foundation
MoMA PS1 has received a $1 million donation toward the funding of future exhibitions from the Teiger Foundation. This will support exhibitions by MoMA PS1’s curatorial team, which includes Jody Graf, Elena Ketelsen González, and Kari Rittenbach. Using money from the fund, those curators are already organizing upcoming solo exhibitions by artists Julien Ceccaldi, Whitney Claflin, and Sandra Poulson, respectively.
Refik Anadol
Sarah Meyohas
Sarah Meyohas
Refik Anadol and his studio are known for transforming architectural spaces and façades into giant canvases for live media arts. He creates site-specific public art and data sculptures, often paired with live audio/visual performances and immersive installations.
Sarah Meyohas
Sarah Meyohas
Sarah Meyohas
Sarah Meyohas is a visual artist working across media. For her project Cloud of Petals, she staged a performance at the site of the former Bell Labs. Sixteen workers photographed 100,000 individual rose petals, compiling a massive dataset.
Sofia Crespo
Sarah Meyohas
Abreesha Jones
Sofia Crespo is an artist working with biology-inspired technologies. Her current focus is exploring how organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve – and the implication that technologies are a biased product of the organic life that created them, and not a completely separate object.
Abreesha Jones
Christian Mio Loclair
Abreesha Jones
Abreesha studied various aspects of form, space, and color manipulation during her attendance at the distinguished Otis College of Art + Design, based on the west coast of Los Angeles. She creates artwork that inspires, reiterates self-love, and emphasizes development.
Christian Mio Loclair
Christian Mio Loclair
Christian Mio Loclair
Using cutting edge technology in interactive installations, audio-visual experiences, visual narratives and dance performances, Mio continuously illuminates the beauty and drama of human identity. He publishes his work on mobile applications, digital projections and theater stages around the world.
Jean-Luc Almond
Christian Mio Loclair
Christian Mio Loclair
Jean-Luc Almonds work is greatly influenced by Victorian photography and black and white film stills. Jean-Luc’s obsession with the materiality and texture of the paint creates tension within the thick surfaces of his paintings. He finds this truer to human experience, uncontrolled, imperfect, not static but shifting and in flux.