Art Historical Past Tales, Critiques, Long Reads,news
Behind the scenes of numerous blockchain-based organizations are numerous women, whose contributions to this emergent house deserve extra recognition. For his Museum MACAN in Jakarta, Haryanto Adikoesoemo lately acquired works by Indonesian artists such as Irfan Hendrian and the late Ashley Bickerton, who was based in Bali from the early 1990s till his dying in 2022. The museum quickly put each artists’ works on view in a group present titled “di sini, d.l.l.” (Indonesian for “here, and so on.”) that targeted on the country’s historical past. At auction, the joy started in February 2019 when, for the primary time, considered one of his paintings passed the $1 million mark. (The 1987 portrait Ada and Louise went for $1.2 million at Christie’s London.) Then, final October, Phillips London reset the document when the 1972 painting Blue Umbrella I soared previous its $1.4 million presale estimate to make $4.1 million. Celebrated African-American …
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