World Art News


March 15, 2023

Late Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston trustee’s collection could fetch more than $270m at Christie’s

Art that once belonged to the late Bostonian collector Gerald Fineberg is expected to fetch more than $270m at Christie’s New York, with a two-part standalone auction scheduled for May touting works by artists from Man Ray to Christopher Wool.

Fineberg, who went by Jerry, was a Boston real estate mogul and hotelier who died last December after amassing a wide-ranging collection of 20th-century art.

March 15, 2023

Zeinab Alhashemi on bringing camels—and camel breeder culture—into the contemporary art scene

Ten artists from across the Gulf have been nominated for the second Richard Mille Art Prize. The full list can be found here.

Work by the artists is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi until 19 March and the winner will be announced 20 March.

People are always curious to discover what the soft, brown surface of Zeinab Alhashemi’s Camouflage series of sculptures is made from.

March 15, 2023

Leading Indian Modernist SH Raza gets first public museum retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris

One of India's best-known Modernist painters, the late SH Raza, receives his largest-ever retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. SH Raza (1922-2016) (until 16 May) is the first major monographic show of the artist, as well as the first to take place in a state-run institution, and brings together more than 90 works in the capital city of his second home.

March 15, 2023

Simrin Mehra-Agarwal on how her work as a technical diver inspires her art

Ten artists from across the Gulf have been nominated for the second Richard Mille Art Prize. The full list can be found here.

Work by the artists is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi until 19 March and the winner will be announced 20 March.

Simrin Mehra-Agarwal has always been inspired by “climbing to the heights of the mountain and diving deep in the sea”.

March 15, 2023

Habits, hair and hardware stores: Afra Al Dhaheri on her artistic inspirations

Ten artists from across the Gulf have been nominated for the second Richard Mille Art Prize. The full list can be found here.

Work by the artists is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi until 19 March and the winner will be announced 20 March.

Afra Al Dhaheri’s artwork at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Weighing the Line, shows fringes of rope hanging from a wall, each one separating into a tangle of split ends by the time it reaches the floor.

March 15, 2023

Lively Botanicals and Organic Forms Cloak Juz Kitson’s Ceramic Vessels in Dense Topographies



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Lively Botanicals and Organic Forms Cloak Juz Kitson’s Ceramic Vessels in Dense Topographies

March 16, 2023

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A photo of a blush pink ceramic vessel covered with floral, fungal, botanical, and other organic forms
March 15, 2023

Elizabeth Dorazio: ‘The unpredictability of nature guides my work’

Ten artists from across the Gulf have been nominated for the second Richard Mille Art Prize. The full list can be found here.

Work by the artists is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi until 19 March and the winner will be announced 20 March.

Nature is at the centre of Elizabeth Dorazio’s art.“I am always amazed by nature as something that is unpredictable, as well as the random elements that happen.

March 15, 2023

Dana Awartani on using craft—which is ‘seen as a bad word’—in her art

Ten artists from across the Gulf have been nominated for the second Richard Mille Art Prize. The full list can be found here.

Works by the artists is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi until 19 March and the winner will be announced 20 March.

Dana Awartani, born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1987, creates work fused traditional crafts with a contemporary context.

March 15, 2023

Paris museum dedicated to the pioneering work of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle reopens after two-year restoration

The Musée Bourdelle in Paris, dedicated to the little-known work of the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, reopened on March 15 after closing last August for the completion of a two-year, €5m restoration programme and a makeover of its permanent collection.

To mark the reopening, the museum is hosting a temporary exhibition of work by the French contemporary artist Philippe Cognée, running until July 16.

March 15, 2023

‘Pretty little thing ain’tcha?’ Art critic John Berger played Cockney gangster in a Grand Theft Auto game

John Berger was a legendary art critic, novelist, painter and… video game voice actor?

Twitter users were flabbergasted to discover that the late British writer supplied the voice of East End gangster Albert Crisp in the 1999 video game Grand Theft Auto: London 1969.

The author of Ways of Seeingcan be heard [from 0:47] delivering lines such as “Pretty little thing ain’tcha?”—perhaps a reference to his popularisation of the notion of the “male gaze”—and asking the player to “fix a few ungrateful little gits”.