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Robert Barry , June 26th, 2021 08:15 With a survey of half a century of work currently on view at Almine Rech, American painter Larry Poons talks about Beethoven, baseball, and the teacher who believed in him as an artist before he did himself Larry Poons (2019) Warrior River Boy. Acrylic on canvas 170.2 x 281.9 cm “Painting is a fast medium. You go from here to there with a substance – and you do it quickly.” For Larry Poons everything is fast. Everything is immediate. Everything is now. So much so that talking about how you actually get there is liable to make him impatient. When I a...

Almine Rech London opens an exhibition of work by Larry Poons This exhibition includes a wide representation of Poons work, spanning from the 1970’s all the way to present day. LONDON .- When the preeminent curator Henry Geldzahler featured Larry Poons’ work in the landmark exhibition New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opened in late 1969, he devoted the show’s culminating gallery to the artist — at 32, Poons was the youngest included. The room glowed with Poons’ early “Dots and Lozenge” paintings, as well as several then-recent expansi...

Remember when the demise of galleries in the West End and central London was widely predicted as they migrated East? It seems absurd now, as the greatest concentration of London’s galleries remains in Mayfair and Fitzrovia. And it is not just blue-chip galleries. Arcadia Missa, one of the most radical of London’s commercial art spaces, which currently has a solo show by the Canadian artist Rosa Aiello, moved “up west” from Peckham recently. But, of course, the mega-galleries are here, too, and their offerings, many of which opened in the weeks leading up to London Gallery Weekend, are...

Artnet Auctions History 93% of lots sold exceeded their pre-sale low estimate 32% of lots sold exceeded their pre-sale high estimate Damien Hirst artwork sells for 600,000 USD Berlin/New York, May 25, 2021-Berlin-based Artnet AG, the leading provider of art market data and online-only fine art auctions announced that Artnet Auctions' spring Post-War & Contemporary Art sale set a new record for the highest revenue generating sale in Artnet Auctions' history. The sale exceeded 2 million USD in total sales with an average sold lot value of over $70,0...