Observingart: art updates

Art after 1940 has benefitted from new materials, especially acrylic paint, based on plastics that are now found to be more fragile and chemically unstable than classical materials. Read more at Art Market Monitor

Nationalmuseum has acquired a unique piece of art glass designed by Betzy Ählström. The Christmas Cactus vase was manufactured in 1902 at the Reijmyre glassworks where she was hired for a brief period. Ählström is now considered one of the female pioneers in the history of Swedish glassmaking and only a few works by her are known. Read more 

Artprice's Global Art Market Annual Report for 2015: with constant price growth, the art market represents a veritable alternative to financial markets. USA recovers top position From China. Read more at Art Market Monitor or download report.

Cyprien Gaillard awarded the ARKEN Prize 2016.  Read more

Cyprien Gaillard, The Recovery of Discovery,Installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2011. Photo: Josephine Walter

Observingart: exhibitions

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection 

At Tate Modern, opening on 10 November 2016

Man Ray Glass Tears (Les Larmes) 1932 

Collection Elton John 
© Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, 
London 2016

Bouchra Khalili
The Opposite of Voice-Over
2 apr – 19 jun 2016

Speeches-Chapter 1: Mother Tongue, From The Speeches Series (2012-2013), video trilogy. 
Digital Film, HD video, 4/3. 23'. 2012. 
Video still. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Polaris, Paris.

Read more at Färgfabriken

Observingart: market at TEFAF 2015

Clare McAndrew’s market report which is based on auction sales and the responses of 840 or so dealers to an online questionnaire is out. Read more at Art Market Monitor

Observingart: art updates

Andréhn-Schiptjenko at Art Basel Hong Kong,
March 24-26, 2016

Ridley Howard 

Daylight Window, 2015. 

Oil on linen 31 x 23 in. (78,7 x 58,4 cm).

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RINA CHARLOTT LINDGREN  -  Night night night

17/3 - 17/4  2016

Solgløtt V
Rina Charlott Lindgren, 2016
145 x 108 cm

Read more at Gallery Haaken

Notable artist creates new, extensive work for the National Gallery of Denmark

Ed Atkins, Safe Conduct, 

Production Still, 2016 

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Can we change the world by changing our language? 

With a striking line-up of artists, the exhibition Varulv! (‘Werewolf’) investigates the relationship between art, language and politics in a time of crisis. 

Read more at Overgaden

LEONARD RICKHARD

Between War and Peace

12. FEBRUAR – 15. MAJ 2016, NIVEAU 5

Leonard Rickhard, 

Dørgløtt med to figurer i sommerlyset II, 

2005-07

Read more at AROS

Poul Gernes

I can’t do it alone – want to join in?

2 June - 16 October 2016

Poul Gernes, Uden Titel (Maleri af Flag),1965 Emalje på fire masonitter 244 X 244 cm Privateje Foto: Anders Sune Berg Read more at Louisiana HELENA BLOMQVIST Florentine March 17 - April 23, 2016 Sunday Morning, 2016, fine art print, 80 x 110 cm Read more