(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the third episode of The Exhibit.) As we pass the half-way point of the competition, the seven artists are tasked with creating a work of art that addresses a profound injustice for the fourth episode of The Exhibit, a new six-episode docuseries created by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture…
Jonathan Travis is a budding mogul at the intersection of two notoriously cut-throat, shady industries: contemporary art and New York real estate. As an investigative journalist who has covered both fields extensively, I expected to encounter a certain type of man when I began hearing about his exploits—think tax machinations, rampant flipping, art bartering—and sharpened…
It’s too cliché to call a new season of “Succession” “highly anticipated.” When creator Jesse Armstrong announced in February that the upcoming fourth season would be the show’s last, it raised the stakes to their highest yet. How will we say goodbye to our beloved Roys, the terrible, no good, very bad family at the…
One of Gustav Mahler’s most powerful New York experiences was a funeral procession he watched from a hotel window. A fireman had drowned in a burning building. It is often surmised that the stark military drum commencing the finale of Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony was a result. Tickets are now on sale for “Mahler in New York”…
At the opening of Art Basel Hong Kong, collectors and museums returned to the fair’s latest edition with dealers reporting success in placing works across private and institutional collections based in Asia. In sales reports, dealers said that the return to the Asia-Pacific market hub was a healthy one. Works valued as high as $5…