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Sun 30 May 2021 08.30 EDT In the mid-1950s, Barbara Hepworth returned to bronze after a break of 30 years. Casting in metal not only meant that several editions of the same work could be made and sold; it was more durable than her carvings, and thus better suited, as she put it, to the “travelling circus” of the contemporary art world. But the change brought with it a shift in style, too: a salty new freedom. The first of these bronzes, Curved Form (Trevalgan) (1956), the idea for wh...

A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm

These David Hockney drawings of life starting afresh are an uplifting antidote to the past year The 83-year-old artists new exhibition, created during lockdown, offers hope to an injured world about 6 hours ago Jonathan Jones David Hockney: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy.’ Photograph: Nathanael Turner/New York Times   “I think it looks terrific,” sa...

Arsenal, Spurs, Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea have signed up to much-maligned £4.3bn project A dozen European football clubs have agreed to join a midweek Super League with plans to start in August  Competition would have no relegation, damaging Champions League and mortally wound domestic leagues  Clubs will cream off billions in new TV money and advertising with critics saying they are pursuing NFL model  Boris Johnson has condemned the European Super League as damaging as Tor...

Arsenal, Spurs, Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea have signed up to much-maligned £4.3bn project A dozen European football clubs have agreed to join a midweek Super League with plans to start in August  Competition would have no relegation, damaging Champions League and mortally wound domestic leagues  Clubs will cream off billions in new TV money and advertising with critics saying they are pursuing NFL model  Boris Johnson has condemned the European Super League as damaging as Tor...

UEFA official slams snake American billionaire team owners for forming new breakaway European Super League as British soccer fans pile on Liverpools John Henry, Arsenals Stan Kroenke, and Manchester Uniteds Glazer family for destroying football A dozen European football clubs have agreed to join a midweek Super League with plans to start in August  The billionaire owners behind the clubs are driving the proposals which have been widely criticized by fans  The ultra-wealthy backers include t...

Betty Cuningham Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by John Lees Installation view. NEW YORK, NY .-Betty Cuningham Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by John Lees. The exhibition opened on March 26 and runs through May 8, 2021. This is the artist’s sixth solo show at the Gallery, located at 15 Rivington Street, New York City. An Online Viewing Room accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition is comprised of 23 paintings and a major work on paper, Sitting in One Place,...

Knopf, 880 pp., $60.00 This episode suggests ruthless careerism, but as the Pulitzer Prize–winning critics Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan write in their new biography,  Francis Bacon: Revelations, the reality turned out to be more haunting. Beginning in 1972, Bacon regularly checked into the hotel room where Dyer died. He slept in the same bed where Dyer had cheated on him; he sat on the toilet where Dyer took his last breath. Bacon wasn’t spiritual, but these private rituals, which could l...

The record-breaking $69 million sale won’t change much, outside of high-roller groupthink.

Beeple NFT Fetches Record-Breaking $69 Million in Christie’s Sale Share In a first in the history of auctions, a digital artwork sold for more than US $69 million at Christie’s. The artwork, titled Everydays – The First 5000 Days by American artist Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, is a collage of 5,000 individual images made one-per-day over more than thirteen years. In a tweet on March 11, Christie’s said that the artwork was sold for US $69,346,250 placing Beeple among the ...