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th birthday party like this before. When Guild Hall, the East Hampton arts center, opens this summer, it’s going to celebrate its milestone birthday with a season packed with heavy hitting programming including theater, visual art, film, dance, and more. On May 23, the season at Guild Hall will open with a virtual poetry performance piece called “Reawakenings,” which will be directed by Paul Hecht and will feature an all-star cast—including Salman Rushdie, Cherry Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mercedes Ruehl, and more—each performing a poem that’s paired with a piece from the institu...

On Thursday a digital artwork sold for $69.3m at Christie’s in New York. The work, titled Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, is a collage of images assembled by an artist who goes by the name Beeple. It has been sold as a unique, digital-only work, with its authenticity guaranteed via a form of digital certification known as a non-fungible token (NFT). In another first, Christie’s has confirmed that it will accept the cryptocurrency Ethereum as payment for the buyer’s premium on the work. As Bloomberg notes, this is a bold move, given the extreme volatility of cryptocurrencies. Metro Pi...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   ATHENS, GA .- Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realism’s reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism” from February 27 to June 13, 2021, seeking to reexamine how we define magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category. The term “magic realism” was popularized in 1943 during the exhibition “American Realists and Magic Realists” at the...

Metro Pictures, champion of the pictures generation, is closing Cindy Sherman at the installation of a show at Metro Pictures Gallery in New York on Nov. 11, 2008. The gallery has announced it plans to close by the end of the year. Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times. by Zachary Small (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- After more than 40 years, the gallery famous for representing artists like Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and Sherrie Levine has announced that it will close by the end of December. Metro Pictures Gallery announced Sunday that it would be closing toward the end of 2021 in an email that cite...

March 07, 2021 at 6:39pm New York gallery Metro Pictures announced today that it will close its doors after this year’s programming, ending a historic four-decade run. An email sent by the gallery cited “a demanding year of pandemic-driven programming, and the anticipated arrival of a very different art world.”  The decision marks the latest of many upheavals to an art scene whose landscape, like that of most cities, has been transformed by an ongoing pandemic that has decimated jobs, necessitated digital exhibition models, and shuttered small and midsize art s...