Leigh, Simone (1968- )
Spring Auction Sales for Two Blockbuster Weeks Top $2.5 Billion
Last year, global auction sales of paintings by artists under 40 soared to $259.5 million, a 177 percent increase on 2020, according to data provided by Artprice, a French-based auction analytics company. Eager to jump on this fast-moving bandwagon, Sotheby’s has come up with a new format called “The Now” sales, focusing on works by […]
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Sonia Boyce Wins Top Prize at Venice Biennale
VENICE — The artist Sonia Boyce won Britain the top prize at the Venice Art Biennale, the world’s longest-running and most high-profile international exhibition of contemporary art. “Feeling Her Way” — a sound installation of five Black British female musicians singing a cappella — took the Golden Lion for best national participation. Boyce is the […]
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At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims
VENICE — It’s a bit lost now in the brain fog of time, but in March 2020 one of the first memes of the coronavirus pandemic arose from the waters of this Most Serene Republic. Some fraudster posted a picture of dolphins supposedly swimming in the Bacino di San Marco, and swans cruising down an […]
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Simone Leigh Holds Court at the U.S. Pavilion in the Venice Biennale
Simone Leigh was on the phone from Venice. It’s not all here yet, she told me. She had been installing her exhibition of bronzes and ceramics in the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale — one of the most prestigious commissions in the art world, and the first time it has been awarded to […]
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