What’s new? Weekly art-climate overview
This week both an Art School in Ukraine, serving as a shelter, and the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol were bombed. It’s unclear whether the people taking shelter in the school have survived the bombing. As for the museum, it’s assumed that the pieces they had there were destroyed. The museum carried a range of Ukrainian artists’ works, including Ivan Aivazovsky, Mykola Hluschenko, Tatiana Yablonska, and contemporary artists Vasyl Korenchuk, Oleksandr Bondarenko, and Lyudmyla Masalska.
Andy Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe is expected to get $200 million in bids this May at Christie’s, setting a new record as the highest expected bid! Just below the ranking, we have Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvador Mundi which was originally expected to get $100 million in 2017. Davinci’s painting ended up getting $450,3 million, exceeding 4 times more than expected. Let’s see if Warhol’s piece can triple the expectations and get the record for highest sold painting too.
In honor of Women’s History Month here are three great artists on the rise.
Park McArthur is a contemporary artist living in New York. McArthurs' work extends through different fields of art and it wants to challenge the status quo and bring attention to marginalized voices, especially the disabled community.
Martine Syms is a Los Angeles-based artist, working with video, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on identity and self-representation, being a voice for feminist and racial matters. Her work is for sale starting at $2.000.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar is a French artist. Her work explores the boundaries of biography and it takes many forms from installation to performance, to sculpture. You can get her work for $650.
By Nery Nery, 2022
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