american
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“Everything I do is about self-presentation and empowerment. You know why it’s so important? Because even people who have very little can control how they present themselves to the world. If you have no money, no nothing, you can throw on a scarf, put your hat to the side and walk out in to the street and feel good. It’s style. Diana Vreeland said if you’re not born with it I feel sorry for your ass.” — Coreen Simpson
Coreen Simpson
Ntozake Shange
1997/2021
Gelatin silver print
26 × 26 in
Price: US$12,000
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“The problem with art is, it’s not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There’s no umpire; there’s no judge. There are no rules. It’s one of its problems. But it’s also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.” — Richard Prince
Richard Prince
Entertainers
1982-83
Chromogenic print
61 ½ × 46 1/2”
MoMA collections
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Irving Penn
The Poor Lovers
1979
Platinum-palladium print
18 ½ x 11 3/8 in.
Price realised
EUR 25,000
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A city in crisis: How fentanyl devastated San Francisco – BBC Newsnight
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“I have found that in accepting and immersing myself in subject matter I paint with more intensity and that the ‘hows’ of painting are more inevitably determined by the ‘whats’.” — David Park
David Park (1911-1960)
Two People in White
1957
oil on canvas
24 x 32 in.
Price realised
USD 378,000
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“There’s conflict in the world and conflict within ourselves.” — Ming Smith
Ming Smith
Sun Ra Space II, New York
1978
printed 2017
Gelatin silver print
40.6 × 50.8 cm
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“Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”— Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Colored Mona Lisa
1963
silkscreen inks and graphite on canvas
125 7/8 x 82 1/8 in.
Price realised
USD 56,165,000
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Ted Bundy Documentary Biography Channel
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“My God! The grass is perfect! It’s green! The sun is out, there’s some clouds.” — Charles O’Rear
Windows XP Background, Bliss. Photo by Charles O’Rear. Used with permission from Microsoft.
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“On my first trip to Iraq, I would take tons of pictures to keep up the morale and to send back to friends and family. I had everything backed up to a hard drive and I lost (crashed) that hard drive, which was very hurtful because I had pictures of family members that are deceased. I realized the only thing I could do was document life in the present.” — Michael McCoy
Photography by Michael McCoy
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“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.” — Richard Serra
Richard Serra
TTI London
2007
two torqued tori of weatherproof steel
each 14 x 35″
installation view