Mr. Sachs compared his life before Ms. Hoover to that of Steve Jobs, specifically to Mr. Jobs’s living without a sofa for several years because he couldn’t find one to his liking. “I was always on that path to be the man who lived without curtains or a sofa,” he …
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On the Eve of Trump’s Sentencing, an Unusual Art Gallery Opening
It was a bitterly cold January evening the night before President-elect Donald J. Trump was set to be sentenced in a Lower Manhattan courtroom, and an unusual array of figures was gathered in an art gallery in Chinatown that was filled with sketches from his trial. They were there for …
Read More »Los Angeles Artists Mourn as Their Studios and Artworks Go Up in Smoke
Egan, the artist who lost the works for his upcoming exhibition, lived and worked out of the house he grew up in on Bienveneda Avenue in the Pacific Palisades. He described watching the fire spread from his window while his wife was in the shower. “There was a little tiny …
Read More »Swan Gossip, Small Talk Studio, and the Slow Growth of Hand-Painted Clothes
One night in December 2019, Emma Louthan realized in a mild panic that she needed a gift for a child’s birthday party the next day. She grabbed acrylic paint and some of her daughter’s old clothes and began creating an aquatic scene: pink koi swimming beneath white and green water …
Read More »As Art Sales Fall, Christie’s and Sotheby’s Pivot to Luxury
When art works fetch spectacular auction prices, like the record $450.3 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” in 2017, the world’s focus turns for a moment to the arcane goings-on of the international art trade. But with the market in a downturn for the last two years, there have …
Read More »Fun Things to Do in NYC in January 2025
‘Grandiloquent’ Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org. Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to another level with an acuity that few other stand-ups can match. Anyone who saw his 2016 performance on “Conan” in which he imagined a …
Read More »Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?
On Nov. 6, the day after the presidential election, the aCrtist Hank Willis Thomas was at his studio in Brooklyn. His production assistants were poring over tables strewed with blobby red white and blue silk-screen prints of the words “Fragile/ Democracy / Handle With Care” in capital letters. The design …
Read More »Pippa Garner, Conceptual Artist With a Satirical Streak, Dies at 82
Pippa Garner, a conceptual art provocateur whose radically modified consumer goods — like a midriff-baring men’s “Half Suit” and a ’59 Chevy with its chassis reversed — offered witty commentary on gender, body modification, American car culture and the boundaries of fine art, died on Dec. 30 in Los Angeles. …
Read More »Can BAM Be a Trailblazer Again Through A. I.?
“A journalist finds himself in the woods.” Marc Da Costa, a digital artist with a Ph.D. in anthropology, was speaking from the controls of an artificial intelligence-driven video installation at the Onassis Foundation’s ONX Studio, a high-tech media lab in the Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan. He was talking to …
Read More »161 Games You Should Pick Up In Nintendo’s ‘Hits For The Holidays’ eShop Sale (North America)
Just a reminder that Nintendo of America’s holiday eShop discounts finish this Sunday night, so if you were waiting for payday to come around before diving back into this monstrous sale, the clock’s a-ticking. Well, until the next time 3,000+ games are discounted. Carry on! Nintendo of America has kicked …
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