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Tracy Zwick

Phillips Closes Fall New York Auction Season with Modest $52-Million Sale

by Tracy Zwick

Nov 13, 2014
Phillips showed its customary strength with hip, young art stars, setting new records for Danh Vo ($629,000), Fredrik Vaerslev ($317,000) and Rashid Johnson ($197,000)... Read more

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Prison, Punk, Porn: Egon Schiele’s Portraits

by Tracy Zwick

Oct 09, 2014
Viennese Expressionist Egon Schiele was perhaps most exciting and provocative in his portraits, which are the subject of an exhibition opening today at New York's Neue Galerie. .. Read more

Jeanne van Heeswijk to Meld Art and Activism at Bard

by Tracy Zwick

Sep 16, 2014
Dutch artist and instigator Jeanne van Heeswijk arrives in New York this week to begin her yearlong stint as the inaugural Keith Haring Fellow upstate at Bard College, where she'll "work with students to address questions about how people can better exercise their rights to their own environments," she told A.i.A. by phone last week from New Zealand... Read more

Good News for People Who Bear Bad News: Legislators Seek to Shield Art Authenticators

by Tracy Zwick

Jun 05, 2014
A bill recently proposed in New York's legislature by Republican Senator Betty Little and Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal aims to protect art specialists who render good faith judgments about an artwork's attribution from lawsuits they say are "meritless" and "expensive and frivolous," raising the burden of proof on claimants and allowing authenticators to recover litigation expenses from the plaintiffs... Read more

Phillips Turns in $131M Contemporary Sale, Led by Rothko

by Tracy Zwick

May 16, 2014
New York's spring evening sales concluded Thursday with a $131 million contemporary art sale at Phillips, led by Mark Rothko, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Records were set for Tauba Auerbach ($1 million), Dana Schutz ($482,500) and Warhol and Basquiat working together ($10.5 million). .. Read more

New Legislation Would Give Artists a Cut of Resale Profits

by Tracy Zwick

Feb 27, 2014
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced a retooled version of his 2011 resale royalties bill yesterday that would give living visual artists or their heirs a cut of the profits when their work--paintings, drawings, photographs or sculptures--is resold through an auction house or online... Read more

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Dancing with Clay: An Interview with Lynda Benglis

by Tracy Zwick

Jan 21, 2014
From pigmented latex to beeswax, metals, polyurethane foam, glass and paper, American sculptor Lynda Benglis, 72, has explored materials widely in her nearly 50-year career. Her newest body of work includes 24 untitled ceramic tabletop sculptures made in Taos, N.M., now on view at New York gallery Cheim & Read (through Feb. 15)... Read more

Now Playing: An Interview with Dara Friedman

by Tracy Zwick

Jan 15, 2014
In PLAY (2013), Dara Friedman's new film and video work, now on view at New York gallery Gavin Brown's Enterprise, a cast of 32 often naked actors perform 17 vignettes about intimacy, fantasy and pleasure in keys ranging from gauzily idyllic to mildly violent... Read more

U.S. Copyright Office Endorses Resale Royalty Rights for Visual Artists

by Tracy Zwick

Dec 16, 2013
The U.S. Copyright Office released a 124-page report Friday reversing its 20-year-old position opposing resale royalties, also known as droit de suite, for visual artists. Federal legislation that could significantly impact artists' incomes and art dealers' profits will follow early next year, said the forthcoming bill's sponsor, Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York... Read more

Phillips Tallies $68 Million with Auction Week Warm-Up

by Tracy Zwick

Nov 12, 2013
Starting off a busy week of postwar and contemporary art auctions, last night's contemporary art sale at New York's Phillips auction house tallied just over $68 million, just above its low estimate... Read more

Balthus’s Mitsou Drawings: An Interview with Sabine Rewald

by Tracy Zwick

Oct 16, 2013
A suite of 40 never-before-exhibited drawings that show French painter Balthus (1908-2001) to have been a child prodigy is part of the show "Balthus: Cats and Girls," now at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 12, 2014)... Read more

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Desert Showdown: Artists’ Texas Projects in Peril

by Tracy Zwick

Sep 30, 2013
This summer, the Texas Department of Transportation (DOT)  pronounced artist Richard Phillips's latest work, an outdoor roadside sculpture near Marfa, Tex., and commissioned by Playboy Enterprises, to be unlawful advertising and ordered the company to remove it. Close by is Prada Marfa (2005), a site-specific Land art project by Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, which the DOT has also deemed illegal... Read more

Syrian Artifacts in Serious Danger

by Tracy Zwick

Sep 26, 2013
"Syria's heritage is under attack," said Irina Bokova, director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in a press briefing Wednesday at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art... Read more

Sotheby’s Wins in Dispute with Jancou Gallery Over Cady Noland Artwork

by Tracy Zwick

Aug 29, 2013
Sotheby's auction house has emerged victorious in a battle over a Cady Noland artwork it withdrew from auction in November 2011... Read more

Storytelling: An Interview with Kerry James Marshall

by Tracy Zwick

Aug 29, 2013
The painter Kerry James Marshall is known for taking on American historyfrom a black perspective. A significant sampling of his work is on view in Washington, D.C., at the National Gallery of Art's first-ever solo show of a living black artist... Read more

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