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This past May, Yayoi Kusama's previously unseen painting ‘INFINITY’ (1995) fetched an impressive $5.94 million USD at Bonhams’ Modern & Contemporary Art auction in Hong Kong. Following this record-breaking sale, the British auction house is set to host another highly anticipated event featuring the collection of renowned actor Jim Carrey. Known for his iconic roles in films like 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and 'The Truman Show,' Carrey is now showcasing a diverse array of fine art and modern design objects at Bonhams LA’s upcoming auction on July 25.The Modern Design | Art auction includes 35 lots from Carrey’s collection. Highlights include Kenny Scharf’s 2014 graphic oil painting Ice Mont, estimated at $30-40,000 USD, and a David Hockney work on paper depicting one of his...

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has partnered up with JRP Editions to release a set of three new limited edition lithographic prints. Mirroring a recent release Weiwei created with Avant Arte, each iteration of Grass Mud Horse features a two-color palette with a medley of surveillance cameras spiraling in-and-out of the composition. Weiwei is perhaps one of the most subversive and outspoken artists in recent memory. From his middle-finger laden photo series, Study of Perspective (1995-2003), to once covering the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in millions of porcelain seeds — a commentary on the 'Made in China' phenomenon and the geopolitics of exchange of the present day — the Chinese dissident uses his practice to critique the global power imbalances in society. “Ai Weiwei is an inspira...

Shahzia Sikander's monumental sculpture "Witness" (2023) was found beheaded in the early hours of Monday, July 8, on the University of Houston campus as reported by the New York Times. Standing 18 feet tall, this striking piece depicted a female figure adorned in a hoop skirt and jabot, with braided hair twisted into ram horns and vine-like tendrils. It was installed earlier this year as part of a temporary exhibition.In February, the piece sparked controversy. Anti-abortion groups denounced the Pakistani-American artist's work, branding it a "satanic abortion idol," and threatened to protest its display. The uproar led the university to cancel Sikander's lecture scheduled for the opening reception.The vandalism occurred as Hurricane Beryl made landfall along the Texas coast, causing wides...

White Cube is showcasing a new solo exhibition on the American Abstract Expressionist Al Held at its Bermondsey location in London. About Space covers Held's 50 year exploration into the complexity between color, form and space. Held, who is widely considered as one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, burst into the art scene following his military service in 1947, carrying an aesthetic similar to Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock, but also that of Hard-Edge artists Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly. Unlike his contemporaries, however, Held fused tenants used by each of the figures previously mentioned, resulting in massive wall-to-wall acrylic paintings occupying an almost hallucinatory altered dimension, where varying shapes contour across an endless void of colors — or lack of color...