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When Nate Freeman described Benjamin Godsill shopping remotely at Frieze LA via artwork preview PDFs and facetiming with an on-the-ground assistant as "Peak drone strike Obama," I really felt that the Nota Bene boys' podcast was a true record of the art world at this moment in history.

s/o @cmonstah for the explainer gif request

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The Unsolved New York City Art Heists of Christmas 1990

In the days leading up to Christmas 1990, four works valued at $4.3 million—including a record-setting Lee Krasner painting—were stolen.

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California Dreamin': Walton Ford Explores Golden State Origin Myths at Gagosian Beverly Hills

The artist's show runs through December 16. Read More

NOVEMBER 30, 2017 The book publisher and collector Benedikt Taschen lives in a John Lautner–designed Los Angeles home dubbed the Chemosphere, and on a late September morning, the Chemosphere was under attack by deep-fanged giant saber-toothed tigers emerging from the tar pits. The creatures came out of the black muck and galloped up the hills, the blinking city behind them, and when they approached the base of the modernist icon of architecture, they found a fair-skinned mountain lion to make prey. Claws out, saliva oozing down teeth, the big cats prepared to feast.

“In the classic Hollywood horror film pitch, I’m saying, the animals rise out of the pits and come and attack contemporary L.A.,” said Walton Ford, who had painted the narrative of rampaging beasts as a masterful triptych called La Brea (2016). We were standing in the Gagosian space on West 21st street in New York, looking at the work that would make up “Calafia,” Ford’s show currently up at Gagosian in Beverly Hills through December 16.

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Chris Burden, Ode to Santos Dumont, 2015.COURTESY GAGOSIAN GALLERY / ART BASEL “It was one of these perfect pieces for Chris,” Paul Schimmel said. I was

“It was one of these perfect pieces for Chris,” Paul Schimmel said.

I was speaking to the former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles about about a day in January 2015, a clear afternoon in Camarillo, California, when the artist Chris Burden showed his latest work to a very small group of close friends, including Schimmel. He called it Ode to Santos Dumont.

As Schimmel described seeing it, and described the elegiac qualities of the work, he started to choke up slightly. Just a few months after that unveiling, Burden was dead. Ode to Santos Dumont was his last finished work. And his last work turned out to be a strange and soulful white whale he spent a decade building—a re-creation of a curio of early aviation, a 40-foot-long white zeppelin that floats for 15 minutes around a fixed invisible point and then comes back earth.

[gregdotorg]

A great profile and rare interview [not under oath!] with Richard Prince in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, by Nate Freeman

Richard Prince's Last Stand [archive] Richardville [greg.org]

[wonderartgang-blog]

What Sold at Art Basel in Basel

An appearance by Rihanna and her art-collector boyfriend on Friday confirmed Art Basel in Basel’s status as the world’s most important contemporary art fair.

#Artfair & #Money & #Rihanna | David Zwirner announced a mammoth sale, even by the standards of the world’s most important art fair: An anonymous collector paid $20 million for Gerhard Richter’s Versammlung (1966)

• ARTISTS: Among the 29 top selling Artists by Value at Art Basel in Basel 2019, I couldn’t help but notice only 2 women and Yayoi Kusama is 13th BUT Non-white artists like Kim Whanki and Kerry James Marshall are in 4th and 6th position !

•GALLERIES: Data compiled by Artsy showed that among the galleries reporting sales, Hauser & Wirth dominated, with a total of more than $49.2 million. The only gallery that came close, Zwirner, with $46.6 million. At a distant 3rd was Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, with a total of $14.8 million. Overall, Artsy’s analysis shows that the 10 highest-grossing galleries - 3.4% of all participating galleries-  accounted for 75.4% of all sales reported during the fair.

•COLLECTORS: Despite being a predominantly European fair, dealers said Art Basel had managed to attract a healthy contingent of Asian collectors just a few months after that continent’s leading fair, Art Basel in Hong Kong. 

•RIHANNA: She walked into the 2019 edition of the Art Basel fair in Basel, Switzerland, took a spin through the Gagosian booth, and then snapped a picture of a large wooden sculpture by Richard Artschwager in the David Nolan booth. But many failed to notice her companion, her boyfriend Hassan Jameel, a member of the billionaire Saudi art-collecting family that last year opened the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai.

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What’s behind the Closure of One of Brooklyn’s Best Galleries

Signal, the beloved gallery opened by Kyle Clairmont Jacques and Alexander Johns in 2012 will close on Friday.

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Trump’s State Department Is over Three Months Late Announcing U.S. Artist for Venice Biennale

The United States is usually among the first countries to announce a pavilion artist at the “Olympics of the Art World.” But this year, it's crickets.