Artnet: forced to change structure?
Artnet AG's most important external shareholder, Weng Fine Art AG, wants to make a voluntary purchase offer to all shareholders - and drive its own share just below the 30% control threshold. In doing so, it reopens old wounds and pokes at Artnet's corporate structure - what is it up to?
Moving ahead with radical puns
In the 1990s, the Young British Artists were seen as an answer to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. One of the best-known members of this circle was Sarah Lucas. She made her programmatic exhibition debut in 1992 with »Penis nailed to a Board«. Today, the British artist turns 60.
It's a Kind of Magic
Surrealism is not only associated with illusory worlds and dream fantasies by die-hard art connoisseurs. The Museum Barberini in Potsdam is now conjuring up the touch of magic that is just as inherent in the style, starting on October 22: In the exhibition Surrealism and Magic. Enchanted Modernity, visitors will recognize what is often overlooked.
Works from eight decades
New York's Guggenheim Museum presents an extremely personal retrospective starting October 21. Alex Katz: Gathering brings together works from eight decades by Alex Katz. In his hometown, visitors relive the flow of life that Katz always tried to preserve in images.
New perspectives on masterpieces
Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès marks the start of a new exhibition series in London: in future, the National Gallery will present individual paintings by famous artists in unexpected contexts and perspectives. The first edition opens on 21 October.
Crisis and late masterpieces
Around 1930, Henri Matisse was a famous painter who, as a pioneer of Fauvism, had a decisive influence on Classical Modernism. At this time, he was going through a creative crisis, which was followed by a groundbreaking late work. From 19 October, visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of Art can follow Matisse in the 1930s chronologically.
Beeple's rise to the art Olympus
Beeple: just a few years ago, a web designer with two million followers who creates digital artworks in his spare time. Since 2021, he is known worldwide as the third most expensive living artist behind Jeff Koons and David Hockney. How did this meteoric rise come about and what role do NFTs play for Beeple − and what role does he play for NFTs?
A time of turmoil, a time of innovation
Upheaval, awakening, innovation, freedom, the »Golden Twenties« and finally the demise – the Weimar Republic existed for only 15 years and yet it left behind a rich variety of ideas, such as the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). The Louisiana Museum of Art in Humlebæk will be examining this period from October 14.
The phenomenon of collectivity
The documenta fifteen showed how hip the work in the collective is. Starting October 13, the exhibition Loving Others - Models of Collaboration at Künstlerhaus Wien strikes the same chord as this year's world art exhibition - at least as far as the sense of collectivity is concerned.
Two presentations on the fascinating art of the early modern period
With two exhibitions opening in parallel, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles invites visitors on a journey into the past: From 11 October, Dutch Drawings from a Collector's Cabinet features rare drawings and Visualizing the Virgin Mary presents portraits of Mary through the ages.
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