Surrealism Turns 100, Felix and Frieze Take Los Angeles, and More: Morning Links for February 29, 2024
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Surrealism
Magritte to Top Surrealism Sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in Paris
A work titled La Leçon de Musique (The Music Lesson) will headline Sotheby's "Surrealism and its Legacy" auction.
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Trove of Never-Before-Seen Photographs by Surrealist Artist Dora Maar Heads to Auction in Paris
Long considered by many to solely be a jilted muse to Picasso, Maar has been cast in a new light in recent surveys.
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The ARTnews Guide to Abstract Expressionism
By the time the Second World War ended, in 1945, some 70–85 million people had died, and cities across Europe and Asia were left in ruins. Economies were devastated in countries around the…
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Man Ray’s Famed Photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse Sells for Record $12.4 M.
The result more than tripled the previous auction record for a photograph.
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Lambasting Reality
How the legacies of Négritude and Surrealism influence today's Black experimental filmmakers.
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New Impressions of the Human
Raymond Roussel is often remembered as an outlier of Surrealism, but his work plays out some of the movement's key ideas whose impact continues today.
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Word Processing
The Surrealist practice of automatic writing finds a troubling analogue in a new wave of sophisticated AI text generators.
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Surreal Things
A group of Los Angeles–based painters is reanimating Surrealist tropes for the twenty-first century.
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RobbReport
One of L.A.’s Most Expensive and Bespoke Penthouses Hits the Market for $29 Million
WWD
Remembering Iris Apfel: Former Met Curator Harold Koda Talks Style Influence, Bartering and Originality
BGR
Furies: New Netflix action series is like a female version of John Wick, but set in France
Sportico
Caitlin Clark Mania Grows After Breaking Maravich’s Record
SPY