August 30, 2021 • Diana Kamin on the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection “IT’S LIKE GOOGLE IMAGES, but in paper and folders.” This has been the simplest way for me to describe the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection to friends, family, and students unfamiliar with one of New York City’s great underknown treasures. The analogy… More TOTAL RECALL

LEEDS LEEDS ART GALLERYThe HeadrowMay 18–September 4, 2021 Zadie Xa’s exhibition here is a visual and oral fable, a myth. The story, which the artist tells in a non-linear fashion through paintings, installation, and modulated light, is inspired by Korean shamanic culture. The show’s central installation features Xa’s signature textile patchwork as ritualistic garments, as… More Zadie Xa

BY ANGELICA VILLAPlus Icon August 30, 2021 5:44pm After a tumultuous period during the first phase of the pandemic, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips have bounced back in 2021 to pre-pandemic sale levels. An analysis of data across 13 modern and contemporary art sales that took place at the three houses between New York, London, and Paris from April… More Picasso, Basquiat Lead Auction Market’s Comeback

BYShanti Escalante-De Mattei, Alex Greenberger, Tessa Solomon August 30, 2021 4:38pm Monday, August 30 Frick Collection Receives Major Gift of Drawings and PastelsThe Frick Collection in New York has received a gift of 26 drawings and pastels—18 drawings, 5 pastels, 2 prints, and an oil sketch—from the collection of museum trustees Elizabeth “Betty” and Jean-Marie Eveillard. The works range… More ARTnews in Brief: Frick Collection Receives Major Gift of Drawings and Pastels—and More from August 30, 2021

By David Ebony Plus Icon August 30, 2021 1:38pm A miniature version of the Venus de Milo and a life-size plaster cast of a human skull are the protagonists of one of Midge Wattles’s photographs of Milton Resnick’s studio. Against a backdrop of sketches stapled to a distressed wall, Venus stands on a stool on the right while the skull… More ONE WORK: MIDGE WATTLES’S “VENUS”

BY ANGELICA VILLAPlus Icon August 30, 2021 12:50pm Amsterdam officials announced on Friday that the city will return a painting by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of its original Jewish owner. The decision ends years-long legal dispute over the painting, which has been in the Stedelijk Museum’s collection since 1940. The canvas, titled Painting with Houses (1909), will be transferred from… More Amsterdam to Restitute Kandinsky Painting to Heirs After Years-Long Dispute