Follow Up Friday
A little summary of the week that’s just been!
Including art history news, DIY tips, exhibition & literature reviews, auction announcements, etc.
Email me with your ideas. I’d love to hear from you.
1. Christmas a la Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling has worked with Far Fetch to curate some really great Christmas cards. Featuring our favourite fairy tales, the .gifs have quotes written by everyone’s favourite tv doctor and can be sent via email or social media. See the full collection here.
2. Christie’s Contemporary Sale Breaks Records
Wednesday evening Christie’s held a marathon sale of postwar and contemporary art. Sold before a tightly packed saleroom in Rockefeller Centre, NYC the sale exemplified the limitless demand for masterpieces of Pop art, Ab Ex, and Contemporary pictures. Pulling in $852.9m, over $150m above the high estimate, a total of fifteen artist-sale records were set including Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly, and Martin Kippenberger. Get the full scoop on Art Net here.
3. In the Market for a Country Pile?
Georgian Manor Hawkestone Hall has been put on the market for a meer £4.25m. The stately home boasts 64 bedrooms, a ballroom and a Venetian saloon – over 20,000 square feet of living space for the same price as a London two bed. Want to make it yours? The Telegraph has all the details here.
4. An Ode to Failed Kickstarters
Italian artist Silvio Lorusso has curated a website called Kickended — it features Kickstarter campaigns that failed so miserably they didn’t raise a single cent. It’s interesting to flick through them to see the range of ideas that failed to garner any interest, but a lot of them didn’t have a lot of effort put into their promotion. You can read more about this project on Dazed here, or check out Kickended here.
5. Fatal Fashion at the Bata Shoe Museum
Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century opened at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto this passed June. Featuring Victorian fashions that were made with the newest innovations, most were toxic or harmful to their wearers (such as the silk green dress dyed with arsenic pictured above). Featuring almost 100 artifacts, the exhibition explores the allure of wearing these garments, and the harm they did to their manufacturers. Read a review of the show on Hyperallergic here. On until 2016, you’ve got plenty of time to check it out.
