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Art Community News, Events & Showings

 

Community Notes

Highlights from recent art community news, events, and showings.

On November 15th, 2017 Christie’s sold Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” or “Savior of the World”. The painting, dating from around 1500, went for $450.3 million with fees and set the new record for any work of art sold at auction.

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Barthelme Art Advising

Surveying the scope of critical art writing today, the board, advisory board, and editors of Gulf Coast recognize the significant lack of venues and support for young and mid-career writers working across the United States.

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Barthelme Art Advising
Titus Kaphar's TED Talk

As Titus Kaphar says of his work: “I’ve always been fascinated by history: art history, American history, world history, individual history -- how history is written, recorded, distorted, exploited, reimagined, and understood.”

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Barthelme Art Advising
Art Book Recommendations

When clients and friends ask for book recommendations on art, I like to point them to the basics first. Here is a short list of essentials that cover art history, a little bit of theory, the fundamentals of the art market and a really nifty guide to deciphering 'ArtSpeak".

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Barthelme Art Advising
Desert X

Beyond the fairs, beyond the white cube - New international Biennial, Desert X opens February 25th - April 30th. "I have an interest in seeing how art behaves in unbounded spaces," says Neville Wakefield, the exhibitions artistic director.

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Barthelme Art Advising