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“El Prado in the Light of the Eclipse” progressively alters the illumination falling on Las Meninas and other icons of the collection, on the premise that small shifts in light change what you actually see — colors, shapes, and detail that ordinary gallery lighting keeps hidden. Every sequence was hand-checked so the composition and pictorial technique survive the intervention. Timed to the eclipse crossing Spain on August 12.
Justin Gignac, who's sealed street litter into acrylic cubes for 25 years, collected debris from outside Madison Square Garden after the couple's July 3 wedding — cigarette butts, candy wrappers, a lone AirPod, an ovulation test — and sold all 50 cubes within a day at $25 to $100 apiece.
"The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection" opens at Christie's King Street (16 July–21 Aug), the first time the auction house's summer exhibition series has been dedicated to a single institution — 180 works by 60 Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi artists spanning the 1950s to today.
In Mona's new permanent installation 'Breathe' by Julian Charrière, visitors inhale air rendered from 2.4-billion-year-old banded iron ore — so pure it 'has not been touched by any being before you.'
A €100 raffle ticket bought on a whim at a Paris restaurant. A $1 million Picasso. The strangest charity draw in the art world keeps minting unlikely millionaires.
Abstract Expressionism was the movement that declared absolute individual freedom — and became, without its artists knowing, an instrument of the American state. The story of how it happened is stranger than any canvas.