In these final chilly days of winter, Art & Object offers a selection of interesting films to watch about artists and the art world. Enjoy!
Basquiat
It seems that the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) still finds itself embroiled in a messy scandal which shook the institution back in 2022. After 25 paintings on cardboard canvases were debunked…
Jamian Juliano-Villani's exhibition, 'It,' at Gagosian doesn't give easy answers, but gets us thinking.
Almost 42 years after Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first exhibition in Los Angeles, Gagosian is staging a new exhibition featuring work that Basquiat produced in Los Angeles.
Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Taylor Swift squeeze Travis Kelce will finance the documentary Basquiat: King Pleasure, Riken Yamamoto wins the Pritzker Prize, and more news.
If you haven’t been keeping up with what’s going on at the Orlando Museum of Art, buckle in, this one is weird and getting more interesting by the day. Last…
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” —attributed to Pablo Picasso
The exhibition uniquely positions the iconic artist among a community of peers who were also at the forefront of post-graffiti, a transformative moment in American art.
Jean-Michel Basquiat crowns a king in this portrait of friend and fellow street artist Anthony Clarke. Executed during Basquiat's meteoric rise to fame in 1982, "Portrait of A-One A.K.A. King"…
A sculpture by Giacometti, a painting by Van Gogh, a table by Carlo Mollino, and a trio of cars were some of the highlights of the evening sales at Sotheby’s last night, which brought in a combined…
This week Sotheby’s New York's Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring sale tripled its low estimate to reach an impressive $4.6 million.
Sotheby’s new approach to live auctions in the age of coronavirus was a success last week, offering hope to investors across the art market.
From the anatomical features of Da Vinci to the fractured features of modernist portraiture, the human head has reigned supreme in Art History.
This focused, thematic exhibition of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988), supplemented with work by others of his generation, explores a formative chapter in the artist’s career…
It’s an enormous monochromatic oil on linen composition featuring a jumble of figures, some consuming media, newspapers, TV screens, all crushed to near abstraction, suggesting a cacophony of…