Fernando Botero, Shoeshine (1989), sold for $1.17m, more than the low estimate at Christie's, New York. Oil On Canvas, 198.1 x 130.8cm. The work has been traded 4 times in the past.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia (UGA) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Rachel Waldrop (née Reese) as Director and Curator of the Dodd Galleries and Athenaeum—a 5,000 square foot non-collecting contemporary art venue in downtown Athens affiliated with UGA that opened in 2021.
Francesco Risso, creative director of Marni, is enriched by a new art residencies program, where the brand will host alternative figures in the art world.
Friedman would be the last person to take on the airs of a higher power, but any artist worth her mettle knows that the challenge of creativity is to yoke life from materials that are, at their base, absent of it.
Dallas glass artist Anna Curnes debuts her first solo show at ALG Fine Art in the Design District — "It Started in Paris."