ART + AUCTION

artinfo.com - Design luminary Ron Arad, 50, takes a provocative new direction with “Guarded Thoughts,” on view through December 20 at Friedman Benda gallery, in New York’s Chelsea. (more…)

ART FORUM

artforum.com - Beijing-based artist Ai Weiwei has exhibited widely around the world and is a leading architectural designer, curator, and cultural critic in China. In conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach, he is presenting two new outdoor installations, which mark his first ventures into making work at an art fair. (more…)

ART DAILY

artdaily.com - An important collection of forty-four first edition sculptures modelled by Salvador Dalí will be offered for sale at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale in New Bond Street on Thursday 11 December 2008. The collection is estimated at £750,000-1 million. (more…)

ART FORUM

artforum.com - Two intersecting wooden frames, painted glossy black and trussed with a web of beams, dominate Eva Rothschild’s recent exhibition. Fat cables coil around the frames, capped with serpent heads and molting sheaths of woven leather.  (more…)

ART INFO

artinfo.com - Spanish curator extraordinaire Rosa Martinez and internationally renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor are both known for vast undertakings: She has helmed biennials in Venice, Santa Fe, São Paulo, and Istanbul, and his works and exhibitions are characterized by seismic scale (see Cloud Gate, his 110-ton polished steel sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, and “Memory,” his just-opened survey at the Berlin Guggenheim). Their recent collaboration, however, in the small Mediterranean city of Murcia, Spain, is more intimate… (more…)

SUN-SENTINEL

sun-sentinel.com - A larger-than-life sculpture called Survival of Serena was shipped from Italy to Miami to serve as a signature work for ArtMiami, one of several major art festivals opening in the city this week. The 4-foot-by-8-foot depiction of a girl dozing in an inner tube was also for sale. Price tag: $350,000.

Alas, Serena did not survive the journey. (more…)

THREAD

thread.co.nz - Despite being called Sliver, the artwork “is extremely robust” says artist Virginia King. “The circular artwork can be viewed as an archetypal symbol of time. The work makes reference to hubs, the wheel, cyclical time, genetic pools and micro organism structures.” (more…)