Dóra Maurer obituary

Dóra Maurer obituary

Hungarian artist and teacher whose avant-garde works ranged from painting and photography to performance Talking to the Art Newspaper in 2019, Dóra Maurer made a surprising claim. Her work, she told the interviewer , benefited “from a lack of market”. It seemed an odd thing to say. The Hungarian artist, who has died aged 88, was about to have her second show at White Cube in London. If an exhibition at Jay Jopling’s fabled gallery was the stuff of dreams – its stable includes such multimillion-pound giants as Anselm Kiefer and Damien Hirst – this was not, however, reflected in Maurer’s own prices. One of her paintings had been auctioned at Sotheby’s three years earlier for £8,000 – a bargain basement figure for a major contemporary artist. Continue reading...

RFK Jr posted a spoof commercial for his very own action figure and self-awareness must be sold separately

RFK Jr posted a spoof commercial for his very own action figure and self-awareness must be sold separately

RFK Jr. is known for many things: his grating voice, his extramarital affairs, his brain worms. Now we know him as an action figure. Unfortunately for the United States, none of those things apply to his day job as head of the Department of Health and Human Services and the country continues to circle the […] The post RFK Jr posted a spoof commercial for his very own action figure and self-awareness must be sold separately appeared first on The Poke .