April 15-16, 2024 – FREE ART THAT CHANGES WEEKLY

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APRIL 15-16, 2024

 

THE BEST ART

FOR FREE

(UNLESS YOU BID ON IT)
AT
CHRISTIES & SOTHEBY’S

ISSUE # 1221

JUDITH BERDY

Auction houses are the best way to discover art, well known and not so.  This Sunday I ventured to Christies to see their American and Modern items that will be auctioned this coming week.  Christies even has a lovely free coffee bar with comfortable seats. Located at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, it is a great stop when in the neighborhood.

Both houses now private sales, on-line sales and other typed of purchasing to encourage young collectors.
Both had many rooms of elegant furnishings from grand New York apartments.

Sotheby’s is closing the York Avenue site and moving to the former Whitey Museum site at 74th and Madison Avenue, this summer.

A fun afternoon away from the flock of visitors and parade on 5th Avenue.

JUST PUBLISHED
CONTEMPORARY ART UNDERGROUND

Contemporary Art Underground presents more than 100 permanent projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design. This ground-breaking program of site-specific projects by a broad spectrum of well-known and emerging contemporary artists has helped to create a sense of character and place at subway and commuter rail stations throughout the MTA system. Among the featured artists are Yayoi Kusama, Kiki Smith, Nick Cave, Ann Hamilton, Xenobia Bailey, Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Sarah Sze, and Vik Muniz.

Of special interest is the discussion of fabricating and transposing the artist’s rendering or model into mosaic, glass, or metal, the materials that can survive in the transit environment. This is the definitive survey of the latest works of the internationally acclaimed MTA Arts & Design collection. On view 24 hours a day, the collection is seen by more than four million subway riders and commuters daily and has been hailed as ‘New York’s Underground Art Museum.’ The collection enlivens stations in all boroughs, with a myriad works by major contemporary artists executed in mosaic, glass, metal, and ceramic.

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