Modern Art

banksy installs shredder in his girl with balloon piece that shreds the artwork seconds after it sells in auction at sotheby's

" It is unclear whether the prank will have destroyed or enhanced the value of the work. "

Doesn’t really matter if he’s the buyer and seller tho. Actually, doesn’t matter even if he’s not...

dude needs to dismantle his garage quick smart and get it down sotheby's before anything happens to it
looks shoddily built, imagine the new garage he could have built

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/19/banksy-port-talbot-mural-south-wales

Spotted this in Sydney MCA. Pleasingly Chucky but probably heavy as fuck and I’m not sure if you can actually pedal it...
Bicycles - James Angus

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46664631

told ya

" Banksy's latest artwork was attacked as a "drunk halfwit" tried to damage the mural on a garage wall in south Wales. "

who actually owns the mural in this instance ? if that was my garage ........

watched a basquiat documentary on bbc last night

loved so much of his work, it was quite samo samey in many ways with repeating themes but amazing artwork and style

he painted this after warhol died, such a powerful image

Coincidentally I was reading about these two in the Tate book shop yesterday ...

https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/warhol-basquiat-bromance/

Installed at home this week..

canvas 150 x 100 cm £12
paint £14
Hogshair brush £10

Now I can’t sit up in bed and read the morning papers, doh

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I like that. What else have you done?

Caught Elmgreen&Dragset at Whitechapel the other day before it closed. Loved it, but really wanted to touch everything. Whisky wasn’t bad either.

I see Nefertiti riding a big pigeon, what do I win?

Now I can’t unsee it. Thanks.

sorrynotsorry

a few of this guys works down brick lane, similar to nathan bowen's work with a similar " pig pen from snoopy " style atomic dust cloud look

anyone know the artist for the skull above ?

and some nice basquiat images on a4 paper stuck onto a few walls round there as well

https://nathanbowenartshop.com/

Lee Krasner at the Barbican is great.

£17 for a ticket is definitely not great.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/06/summer-exhibition-review-royal-academy

A 1 star review of

a moronic monument to British mediocrity

I haven't seen it yet, but I think I'm just not very discerning, I've always enjoyed it...

Frieze week, and all the big autumn shows are on.

Alex Katz's Blue Umbrella was the big seller in Phillips auction this evening. £3,375,000 on an high estimate of 1,200,000.

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https://www.pictame.com/user/butterflyman752/16651281964

Sotheby's sold a Banksy for £9.9m, to some fucking moron.

A not particularly good Basquiat made the same price.

Re: Sotheby’s

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Might as well put something in the basket, just to be part of the charade. I wonder how people will game the system and what the inevitable twist will be.

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There's a major Bridget Riley retrospective at the Hayward. Looking forward to going next time I'm in town. Perhaps some might think it's not Modern Art, but it depends on when you were born!

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/bridget-riley
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/22/bridget-riley-review-hayward-gallery

Went to see Mark Bradford at Hauser and Wirth yesterday. Apart from the main piece I thought it was kinda shit.

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I've never been fond of Lucian Freud's paintings of human, but these images show that he was indeed a very good figurative painter:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/24/lucian-freud-nudes-magnificent-painter-of-plants-climate-emergency