Plus, commerce time for an artist-cooked lunch, Tom Otterness installation stalled, Ireland auctions debtor’s $2.eight mil art assortment. Plus, a PBS newsman opens art gallery, last present for Merce Cunningham dancers, John Baldessari “post-studio art,” NADA to Art Cologne, Bank of America provides to RISD. Senior editor Alex Greenbergeraddresses howthis year’s flood of Picasso exhibitionsmarking the fiftieth anniversary of his dying taught us completely nothing new. Greenberger also highlighted 10 under-recognized artists who got their due in 2023.

Some expressed uncertainty over whether or not or when collector-philanthropists would possibly see financially supporting emerging practices as trendy as they did during the pandemic. If the previous couple years were marked by stasis and uncertainty, partly as a end result of the pandemic, 2022 was the first time shortly when it felt as if so much was taking place directly. The Venice Biennale and Documenta, the world’s two greatest art festivals, …