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In the newsletter: Armour made of flowers, jelly art and more of the week's best links – CBC.ca
Hello! You’re reading the CBC Arts newsletter, and if you like what you see, stick around! Sign up here, and every Sunday we’ll send you a fresh email packed with art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy.
Because weekends are for adding another centimetre to your sofa’s well-worn butt groove, there’s an entire marathon of movie recos waiting under “You gotta see this.” But first, for anyone still smiling over Parasite‘s best picture win, nerd out over the production design of the house, then queue up these classics of modern South Korean cinema. (Add Burning to that list, too — in case you somehow missed it.) Every living movie star is doing the new Wes Anderson, which is inspired by the New Yorker…and this influential art dealer. More than 150K lovely botanical illustrations just hit the public domain (and they are all extremely #cottagecore). Spend a day at the Justin Bieber museum (without actually going there).
And because we promised you eye candy
As someone with a morbid interest in ’50s cookbooks, these jellies by Vancouver artist Sharona Franklin are the most ugly-gorgeous thing I’ve seen all week. She’s about to open a solo exhibition in New York, which she spoke about with The Guardian — and the work’s references to everything from B.C. flora and fauna to Sharona’s experience living with disability are fascinating. I so want to learn more. (Also, I just want to poke them.)
The appropriate thing to wear when poking a jelly? “Petal armour” by Vancouver’s Colette Stubbings.
This one’s going out to all the Paper Cuts fans. Art by Karine Demers. (See her work at Galerie d’Este in Montreal to March 1.)
Stranger than fiction, right? This photo of mice (real mice!) fighting over a crumb on a subway platform won London’s Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. (Hear the full story behind the image on CBC Radio’s As It Happens.)
You’ve got to see this
Fed up with dating apps? These artists were, too – In the search for emotional connection, you might be better off making art than messing around on Tinder. Hear from a bunch of Canadian artists who’ve been making sense of the trash mystery that is online dating. Like anyone stuck in the swipe life, turns out a sense of humour is key.
The Photograph (and 10 more Black love stories to watch this weekend) – Starring Issa Rae (Insecure) and LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta), The Photograph is the latest from Toronto filmmaker Stella Meghie. Amanda Parris is a fan, and if you’re in the mood for a movie binge, she’s picked 10 of her all-time favourite romance flicks.
This video is simply the best – Remember THAT Schitt’s Creek serenade? The show’s Noah Reid reveals three of his favourite love songs, and they’re all extremely CanCon.
Follow this artist (@ovila79) – Need more warm fuzzies? Ovila’s a Coast Salish digital artist, and he’s one of several Indigenous artists who were commissioned by the CBC’s social media team to design cards in their ancestral languages. (Have a look.)
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Art and Ephemera Once Owned by Pioneering Artist Mary Beth Edelson Discarded on the Street in SoHo – artnet News
This afternoon in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, people walking along Mercer Street were surprised to find a trove of materials that once belonged to the late feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson, all free for the taking.
Outside of Edelson’s old studio at 110 Mercer Street, drawings, prints, and cut-out figures were sitting in cardboard boxes alongside posters from her exhibitions, monographs, and other ephemera. One box included cards that the artist’s children had given her for birthdays and mother’s days. Passersby competed with trash collectors who were loading the items into bags and throwing them into a U-Haul.
“It’s her last show,” joked her son, Nick Edelson, who had arranged for the junk guys to come and pick up what was on the street. He has been living in her former studio since the artist died in 2021 at the age of 88.
Naturally, neighbors speculated that he was clearing out his mother’s belongings in order to sell her old loft. “As you can see, we’re just clearing the basement” is all he would say.
Some in the crowd criticized the disposal of the material. Alessandra Pohlmann, an artist who works next door at the Judd Foundation, pulled out a drawing from the scraps that she plans to frame. “It’s deeply disrespectful,” she said. “This should not be happening.” A colleague from the foundation who was rifling through a nearby pile said, “We have to save them. If I had more space, I’d take more.”
Edelson’s estate, which is controlled by her son and represented by New York’s David Lewis Gallery, holds a significant portion of her artwork. “I’m shocked and surprised by the sudden discovery,” Lewis said over the phone. “The gallery has, of course, taken great care to preserve and champion Mary Beth’s legacy for nearly a decade now. We immediately sent a team up there to try to locate the work, but it was gone.”
Sources close to the family said that other artwork remains in storage. Museums such as the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney currently hold her work in their private collections. New York University’s Fales Library has her papers.
Edelson rose to prominence in the 1970s as one of the early voices in the feminist art movement. She is most known for her collaged works, which reimagine famed tableaux to narrate women’s history. For instance, her piece Some Living American Women Artists (1972) appropriates Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper (1494–98) to include the faces of Faith Ringgold, Agnes Martin, Yoko Ono, and Alice Neel, and others as the apostles; Georgia O’Keeffe’s face covers that of Jesus.
In all, it took about 45 minutes for the pioneering artist’s material to be removed by the trash collectors and those lucky enough to hear about what was happening.
Dealer Jordan Barse, who runs Theta Gallery, biked by and took a poster from Edelson’s 1977 show at A.I.R. gallery, “Memorials to the 9,000,000 Women Burned as Witches in the Christian Era.” Artist Keely Angel picked up handwritten notes, and said, “They smell like mouse poop. I’m glad someone got these before they did,” gesturing to the men pushing papers into trash bags.
A neighbor told one person who picked up some cut-out pieces, “Those could be worth a fortune. Don’t put it on eBay! Look into her work, and you’ll be into it.”
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Why Are Art Resale Prices Plummeting? – artnet News
Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, with input from our own writers and editors, as well as artists, curators, and other top experts in the field.
The art press is filled with headlines about trophy works trading for huge sums: $195 million for an Andy Warhol, $110 million for a Jean-Michel Basquiat, $91 million for a Jeff Koons. In the popular imagination, pricy art just keeps climbing in value—up, up, and up. The truth is more complicated, as those in the industry know. Tastes change, and demand shifts. The reputations of artists rise and fall, as do their prices. Reselling art for profit is often quite difficult—it’s the exception rather than the norm. This is “the art market’s dirty secret,” Artnet senior reporter Katya Kazakina wrote last month in her weekly Art Detective column.
In her recent columns, Katya has been reporting on that very thorny topic, which has grown even thornier amid what appears to be a severe market correction. As one collector told her: “There’s a bit of a carnage in the market at the moment. Many things are not selling at all or selling for a fraction of what they used to.”
For instance, a painting by Dan Colen that was purchased fresh from a gallery a decade ago for probably around $450,000 went for only about $15,000 at auction. And Colen is not the only once-hot figure floundering. As Katya wrote: “Right now, you can often find a painting, a drawing, or a sculpture at auction for a fraction of what it would cost at a gallery. Still, art dealers keep asking—and buyers keep paying—steep prices for new works.” In the parlance of the art world, primary prices are outstripping secondary ones.
Why is this happening? And why do seemingly sophisticated collectors continue to pay immense sums for art from galleries, knowing full well that they may never recoup their investment? This week, Katya joins Artnet Pro editor Andrew Russeth on the podcast to make sense of these questions—and to cover a whole lot more.
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