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☆ What are the best galleries in London? Artists choose their favorites
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Royal Academy of Arts, London / David ParryLondon has long been home to some of the world's leading art galleries — Tate Modern, Somerset House and the National Gallery are among the U.K.'s most visited attractions. CNBC asked a mix of artists to name their favorite public and commercial galleries to visit in London — large or small. Contemporary galleries — and an upscale hotelMultidisciplinary artist Lauren Baker, who is exhibiting at the Venice Biennale until November, named contemporary galleries — and a hotel — as her favorite places to see art in London. Her top London galleries include the Royal Academy of Arts, for its "wonderful" exhibitions, she told CNBC by email. Rob Stothard | Getty ImagesEdwards also likes major London galleries Tate Modern and Tate Britain.

Persons: David Parry London, Lauren Baker, Alice, It's, Rachael Louise Bailey, Matthew Harris, Baker, Woolff, Apolline Bokkerink, Joanne Tinker, Jeff Greenberg, Matthew Flower, Amanda Wilkinson —, Maureen Paley, Gillian Wearing, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ratnam, Katharine Edwards, Mark Rothko's, Rothko, Rob Stothard, Edwards, Mark Rothko, Komal Madar, Kandinsky, Munter, Komal, Madar, Judy Chicago's, Modigliani, Gilbert Proesch, George Passmore, Gilbert, Joe Maher, Tom Oldham, Dave Grohl, Usain Bolt, Gilbert Prousch, Oldham, Queen Elizabeth II, Andy Warhol, Phillips, Dan Kitwood Organizations: Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy of Arts ,, Somerset House, CNBC, Venice Biennale, Alice Black Gallery, Universal, Getty, Turner, Tate Galleries, Cricket Fine, London's Tate, Tate, Tate Britain, Seagram, Gilbert & George Centre, Oldham, George Centre, . Locations: London, Royal Academy of Arts , London, Venice, London's Soho, Fitzrovia, Mayfair, Andalusia, Spain, London's Chelsea, New York, Serpentine, Hyde, London's Bermondsey, Islington, Soho, England

☆ Do this once a month and extend your life by 10 years. No gym required
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Jessica Dulong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“Art is one of our oldest creations (humans invented paint long before the wheel), one of the earliest means of communication (we drew long, long, long, long before we could write), and one of our most universal urges,” she wrote. But when you watch artists making art, it is a physical experience. Different art forms affect the brain and body in different ways. Just as when we are prescribed medications, (it’s true that) types, doses and durations of art work differently for different people. And just one art experience per month can extend your life by 10 years.

Persons: Susan Magsamen, ”, Ivy Ross, Bianca Bosker, “, Marco Brambilla’s, Leon Neal, Rothko, —, Cy, Benjamin Krantz, Bianca, Jessica DuLong Organizations: CNN, Research, Getty, Physicians, Viking CNN Locations: London, Houston, Brooklyn , New York

☆ 'Quiet wealth' takes on new meaning with super-private deals for mansions, art and classic cars
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

While public auction sales are declining in the art world, private sales — done behind closed doors between discreet buyers and sellers — are growing. Classic cars are also seeing a shift to private sales, especially with the most expensive and rare models. But its newly formed RM Sotheby's private sales division has seen its sales more than quadruple over the past four years, according to Shelby Myers, global head of private sales for RM Sotheby's. The rise in private sales for classic cars, art, real estate and other markets is being driven by social media, technology and cooling prices for collectibles. "They're leaving money on the table," said real estate broker Noble Black of Douglas Elliman.

Persons: Robert Frank, Phillips, Christie's, Mark Rothko, Ken Griffin, Ferraris, Shelby Myers, We've, Myers, Patrick Dovigi's, Steve Wynn, Thomas Peterffy —, Douglas, Ernie Carswell, Carswell, He's, Noble Black, Douglas Elliman Organizations: Christie's, CNBC, Sotheby's, Hamptons, Malibu , Bel Air, Beverly Locations: Sotheby's, Christie's, Manhattan, Malibu, Aspen, Palm, Manhattan's Greenwich, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, New York, Eastern, Palm Springs, Malibu ,

☆ She's worked for Nike, the NBA — and Maya Angelou. Meet abstract artist Ya La'ford
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Artist Ya La'ford in front of one of her artworks. Ya La'fordAbstract artist Ya La'ford is in demand. Her commissions — including sculpture, installations and gallery exhibitions — mean she is fully booked for the next four years. "American Roots" (2021), an installation at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, by Ya La'ford. The work was defaced in 2012 and restored in 2014, and Ya La'ford said it is one of her favorite artworks.

Persons: Ya, Ya La'ford, La'ford, She's, Janet Jackson, John, Maya Angelou, Maya, Melinda Gates, Mark Rothko's, London's, Rob Stothard Organizations: Nike, McLaren Racing, Orlando Magic, CNBC, NFL, Ringling Museum of Art, Fine Arts, Art Institute of Boston, University of Florida's Levin College of Law, Orlando Museum of Art . Orlando Museum of Art, U.S, Tampa Museum of Fine Arts, Asia, London's Tate, Getty Locations: St . Petersburg , Florida, Sarasota , Florida, Houston, China, Palenque , Colombia, St . Petersburg, Ogden , Utah, Jacksonville , Florida, Bronx , New York

☆ A complete timeline of Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson's relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +32 min

Actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson and director Sam Taylor-Johnson have been married since 2012. AdvertisementActor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 33, and director Sam Taylor-Johnson, 57, have been together for more than a decade. 2009: Aaron proposes to Sam after wrapping the filmSam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in September 2009. February 2017: Aaron says that the public's fixation on their relationship is 'intrusive'Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in April 2014. March 2021: It's reported that Sam and Aaron will team up for another film togetherSam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in February 2019.

Persons: Aaron Taylor, Johnson, Sam Taylor, Aaron, Sam, —, Here's, John Lennon, Dave M, née Taylor, Wood, Jay Jopling, Anjelica, Jessie Phoenix, Anjelica Jopling, John Lennon's, Julia, Harper's, Sam I'd, –, Mike Marsland, IndieWire, Pascal Le Segretain, I'm, We've, Aaron didn't, Simon Hattenstone, Hattenstone, Jonathan Ross, Sam's, Wylda Rae, Peter Kramer, Wylda, R.E.M, Romy Hero, Sang Tan, Taylor, Johnson Sam Taylor, Stewart Wilson, London's, Jordan Strauss, We're, Charles Sykes, Anna Karenina, Aaron Johnson, Angus, Thongs, Tom Ford's, Eric Charbonneau, Jesus, Romy, Joel Ryan, Aaron gushes, Mr Porter, Benjamin Button, she's, HBD, Zoë Kravitz, Karl Glusman's, aron, ohnson, aron T aylor-, aid., ames, ieces', ike, elationship, aron d anced, ong, rowe, eing, ove ✍ 🏼 f, m., Jo, " Sony, ted the of, tarr, Aaron T aylor, ady, roper, I w, hie Turner, elebr, 0s, I, cott, Adve, , ', hou Organizations: Service, Nowhere, Hollywood Reporter, The Telegraph UK, Sunday Times UK, Telegraph UK, The Telegraph, Guardian, Globe, New York Magazine, Hollywood, Artist &, ust, ici, ntr Locations: Jopling, Liverpool, London, Somerset, England, Phoenix, Paris, ife, gan

☆ Christie's just sold a Rothko painting for $100 million in a secret sale. Here are the details
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Christie's auction house in New York. Auction house Christie's just sold a painting for more than $100 million, although the artwork, the buyer and the seller were officially kept a secret. In an interview with CNBC, CEO Guillaume Cerutti said Christie's sold a painting in January in a private sale with a price "in excess of $100 million," though the auction house declined to provide details. In a private sale, a work is brought for a possible sale to an auction house, which reaches out to its top clients and brokers a deal. Private sales have surged since the Covid-19 pandemic, as more and more collectors prefer discreet transactions outside the public eye.

Persons: Robert Frank, Guillaume Cerutti, Christie's, Mark Rothko's, Green, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Kenneth Griffin, Griffin, Ken Griffin, Scott Mlyn, Mark Rothko Organizations: CNBC, Citadel, CNBC's, Alpha, Private Locations: New York

☆ What’s in Our Queue? Mark Rothko and More
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

What’s in Our Queue? Mark Rothko and MoreAs an international correspondent, I’ve been covering France for the last 16 months. I am still in the deep-immersion stage, devouring the culture through books, art exhibits, theater and music. Here are four things I’ve been enjoying →

Persons: Mark Rothko, I’ve Locations: France

☆ Photographs show the dramatic transformation of San Francisco’s salt ponds
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But these shades are not mixed on a palette, they are unfiltered snapshots of San Francisco Bay’s salt ponds. Barbara BoissevainAlthough perhaps less photogenic, the shift is a positive sign, says Dave Halsing, executive project manager of the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project. Today, Cargill still operates 12,000 acres of salt ponds, capable of crystallizing half a million tons of sea salt each year. She remembers visiting the salt ponds for the first time during a science class in third grade. She started by going up in the air once a year to photograph the salt ponds.

Persons: CNN — Barbara Boissevain’s, Mark Rothko, Dunaliella, Barbara Boissevain, Dave Halsing, ”, Boissevain, “, David Maisel Organizations: CNN, Cargill, Menlo Park, Meta, Facebook, Kehrer Verlag, San Jose State University Locations: Francisco, Salt, Manhattan, Dunaliella salina, Silicon, Menlo, Ravenswood Ponds

☆ Auctions in New York Reflect a Dip in the Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Scott Reyburn | More About Scott Reyburn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As is almost always the case now with auctions of major single-owner collections, Sotheby’s secured the Fisher Landau consignment by guaranteeing the sellers an overall minimum price. Picasso’s 1932 painting “Femme à la montre,” the star lot of the Fisher Landau collection, was one of 24 lots in the Nov. 9 evening sale backed by irrevocable bids. This was knocked down to one bid of $22.2 million, incurring Sotheby’s a substantial loss, but preserving the prestige of a 100 percent selling rate. (His Fine Art Group spent $4.8 million for a 1995 Agnes Martin painting at the Fisher Landau evening session.) The art adviser Josh Baer, reporting on the Fisher Landau auction in his Baer Faxt newsletter, said, “profitability for auction houses is not always going to happen.

Persons: Sotheby’s, Fisher, ”, Fisher Landau, Rothko, ” Hoffman, Agnes Martin, Josh Baer, Baer Organizations: Sotheby’s, Art

☆ Rothko, in Pain and Glory
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Lyna Bentahar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

You may recognize Mark Rothko’s paintings, even if you can’t recall the artist’s name: tall canvases of bold, floating blocks of color. 13,” “Red on Maroon,” even “Untitled,” are just as abstract as the paintings themselves. The Fondation Louis Vuitton art museum in Paris will host 115 of Rothko’s works in a blockbuster retrospective that runs through next spring. Rothko preferred to show his paintings in low light, and away from the work of other artists. The show mostly stays true to those wishes, though it gives space in the final gallery to one artist Rothko at least approved of: Alberto Giacometti, whose spindly, bronze sculptures of attenuated human figures appear alongside a set of Rothko’s black-and-gray paintings.

Persons: Mark Rothko’s, ”, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Jason Farago, Rothko, Alberto Giacometti Organizations: Fondation Louis, The Times Locations: Paris

☆ Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jason Farago | More About Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Melt the world away, lose its details, dissolve its borders; it doesn’t sound like such an unwelcome prospect right now. The most substantial Mark Rothko retrospective in a generation has opened at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and it is a show of monumental dispersion: a pull-out-all-the-stops blockbuster where life passes into vapor. From 1949, when his early figurative pictures finally liquefied into stains of translucent color, Rothko painted with no allusions, no particulars. A lot of people find his large paintings consoling, or seek the Romantic sublime in the depths of his reds and violets. “Behind the color lies the cataclysm,” he said in 1959 — a citation that rarely makes the auction preview catalogs.

Persons: Rothko, Fondation Louis Vuitton, ”, it’s, Frank Gehry Organizations: Fondation, Art Basel, National Gallery of Art, Whitney, Fondation Vuitton, Boulogne Locations: Paris, Washington, New York, Bois

☆ Picasso portrait of mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter could sell for over $120 million at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A Picasso masterpiece entitled “Femme à la montre” is expected to fetch more than $120 million when it goes up for auction this fall. Sotheby'sThe piece, which measures 51¼ x 38 inches (130 x 96.5 centimeters), depicts Picasso’s lover and “golden muse” Marie-Thérèse Walter, who featured in many of his portraits. In a statement announcing the sale, Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist & Modern Art for the Americas, said: “Picasso’s ‘Femme à la Montre’ is a masterpiece by every measure. The artist painted “Femme à la montre” in August 1932, soon after the retrospective at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris ended. Andy Warhol's 1986 self portrait will also be auctioned as part of Fisher Landau's collection.

Persons: Emily Fisher Landau, Fernand Léger's, ” Marie, Thérèse Walter, Picasso, London’s, Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s, ” Picasso, Walter, Olga Khokhlova, ”, Galerie Georges Petit, Fisher Landau, Andy Warhol's, Fisher, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Fisher Landau’s, fenêtre, Thérèse, Picasso’s Organizations: CNN, London’s Tate, Art, Galerie, Lloyds Locations: New York, Manhattan, Paris, Americas, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgia, London, Marie

☆ Picasso masterpiece depicting his young mistress sells for $139 million at Sotheby’s auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A Picasso masterpiece entitled “Femme à la montre” fetched more than $139 million on Wednesday, becoming the second most valuable work by the artist ever sold at auction. The 1932 oil painting took center-stage at a two-day event at Sotheby’s in New York, at the sale of late philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau’s private collection. She is pictured here in front of Fernand Léger's "Étude pour Les Constructeurs" in her home in Manhattan in 2002. In a statement announcing the sale in September, Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist & Modern Art for the Americas, said: “Picasso’s ‘Femme à la Montre’ is a masterpiece by every measure. Andy Warhol's 1986 self portrait will also be auctioned as part of Fisher Landau's collection.

Persons: CNN —, ”, Emily Fisher, Emily Fisher Landau, Fernand Léger's, ” Marie, Thérèse Walter, Picasso, London’s, Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s, ” Picasso, Walter, Olga Khokhlova, Galerie Georges Petit, Fisher Landau, Andy Warhol's, Fisher, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Ed, fenêtre, Thérèse, Picasso’s Organizations: CNN, London’s Tate, Art, Galerie, Lloyds Locations: New York, Manhattan, Paris, Americas, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgia, London, Marie

☆ This Small Ozarks Town—Home to Walmart Headquarters—Is Becoming a New Capital of Cool
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Kathryn O Shea-Evans | Photographs Barrett Emke For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

MORE THAN a decade after the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in 2011 in Bentonville, Ark., I found myself wondering if more art, culture and good food had followed in its wake. Founded by Alice Walton , daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, and designed by convention-flouting architect Moshe Safdie, the museum turned a spotlight on this southern city in the Ozarks. Named for the spring that feeds the two ponds that flank it, the museum holds work by artists such as Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Persons: Alice Walton, Sam Walton, Moshe Safdie, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keeffe Organizations: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Walmart Locations: Bentonville, Ark, Georgia

☆ The dog days of summer are boom days for divorce filings. But the economy is making it tough.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Alexandra Peers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —The dog days of summer are boom times for divorce filings. You can’t quite inflation-proof your divorce, they noted, but there are steps to take to blunt the economy’s impact on it. ljubaphoto/E+/Getty ImagesIf you refinance, you’ll also have to qualify for a new loan based on one income. Also, divorce attorneys stress, expect the strains and time-consuming duties of divorce to, at least temporarily, trim gig income. “I have clients who have put off divorce because of the economy,” said Manhattan accountant Marc Albaum.

Persons: Jaime Davis, Brandon Bell, you’ll, Scott Trout, Cordell, Appraising, Sid Bass, Anne, Anne Bass, Edgar Degas, Mark Rothko, Degas, ”, Victor Weiner, hasn’t, “, Marc Albaum, “ One’s, ‘, Covid, That’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, Veterans Affairs, Cordell, Appraisers Association of America, Wall, Consumer, CPI Locations: New York, Raleigh , North Carolina, Houston , Texas, Manhattan, Covid

☆ Art Basel draws surge in Asian collectors
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Noele Illien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] People pose in front of the sculpture "Naughtynightcap" from 2008 by artist John Chamberlain at the Art Unlimited exhibition at the Art Basel art fair in Basel, Switzerland September 21, 2021. Noah Horowitz, who became Chief Executive of Art Basel in November said that an extraordinary amount of people from Asia have travelled to this year's flagship Art Basel fair. China's art market, the third largest in the world, had reported a steep decline in sales in 2022, with lockdowns stalling activity and cancelling art auctions and events, according to the 2023 UBS Global Art Market Report. "The art market compared to the financial market is completely different – it is very opaque, it is not transparent and there are limited sources of data," she said. Art Basel is open to the public until Sunday.

Persons: John Chamberlain, Arnd, Mark Rothko, Noah Horowitz, Joost Bosland, Stevenson, Bosland, Patricia Amberg, Noele Illien, Sandra Maler Organizations: Art, REUTERS, Art Basel, Basel, UBS Global Art, UBS, Thomson Locations: Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ZURICH, Swiss, Asia, South Africa, Netherlands, China

☆ Don’t Wear Blah Gingham Like a Finance Bro. Go for This Actually Cool Pattern Instead.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Grace Cook | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DON’T BE THESE GUYS Textbook blue-and-white gingham shirts are a blah, corporate staple these days. Photo: RYAN MESINA/THE WALL STREET JOURNALEARLIER THIS YEAR, Brett Miles surprised himself. The 37-year-old left his London finance job and moved to Milan to start afresh. Step one: He bought a pair of pants bolder and more fashion-forward than anything he’d worn in his previous corporate life. “They’re my liberation pants,” said Miles.

☆ In ‘Glass Onion,’ an Art Collection That Says ‘Rich Jerk’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

What art would a billionaire tech bro with a penchant for showing off put in his private Greek-isle palace? According to the “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” he’d have two Basquiats, a Mark Rothko, a David Hockney, some Matisses, a Degas, a Twombly. Oh, and the Mona Lisa.

☆ Top 10 cele mai scumpe tablouri din lume care au fost vândute. Vezi care sunt acestea
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-16 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Top 10 cele mai scumpe tablouri din lume care au fost vândute. Vezi care sunt acesteaPictura reprezintă o formă de artă extrem de complexă, în care oamenii au dreptul să vadă lucrurile diferit. Există picturi pe care le putem considera reușite și valoroase, dar sunt și picturi complexe, catalogate opere de artă, pe care mulți din noi nu le putem înțelege. Mai jos puteți vedea un top 10 al celor mai scumpe tablouri vândute până acum. Portretele lui Maerten Soolmans și Oopjen CoppitArtist: RembrandtPreț de vânzare: 180 de milioane de dolari#7.

Persons: Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Maerten, Gustav Klimt, Jackson, Nafea, Paul Gauguin, Willem, Salvator, Leonardo Locations: Alger

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