#workoftheweek

The price is strikingly low for Colen, whose paintings have sold for $3 million at auction, according to the Artnet Price Database. Holy Shit fetched $341,000 when it was offered at Sotheby’s contemporary evening auction on November 13, 2013. It has traded hands since, according to the published provenance. In 2023, it returned to the block at Sotheby’s with the much reduced estimate of $40,000 to $60,000 but found no takers.

Posted by• @sadlers_wells Juggling is not proper art, right? WRONG 🍎⁠ ⁠ Our #WorkOfTheWeek is the delightful, grin-inducing Smashed, from juggling masters @GandiniJuggling... who challenge our perception of contemporary juggling with the help of over 100 apples!⁠ ⁠ This production was recorded at our West End home, the Peacock Theatre, in 2010 and is a hommage to the great dance maker, Pina Bausch. ⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to watch the full performance. ⁠ ⁠ #juggling #dance #theatre #choreography #gandinijuggling #smashed #pinabausch #westend (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFWoOGBFEof/?igshid=oh7oi6trpqcm

🕺🏿💗🌿 #ArtIsAWeapon #DancingIsFreedom Reposted from @sadlers_wells (H/t @lolaschild #OnlyArtCan) In a violent world, 'Ode' is a reflection on the beauty and fragility of life 🥀⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Our #workoftheweek is by choreographer Jamar Roberts. 'Ode' was created as a poetic tribute to the victims of violence in America. It premiered in New York last year, and strikes a particularly powerful chord today. ⁠ ⁠ 'Ode' is performed by an ensemble of male dancers from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater [@alvinailey]. The company remains one of the most important influences in the history of dance, celebrating the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience. ⁠ ⁠ We all have a part to play in ending racism. #BlackLivesMatter ⁠ Link in bio to watch the full work. ⁠ #dance #Dancers #BlackDancers #contemporarydance #ode #alvinailey #dancetheatre #EndRacism #ArtistsReflectingTheTimes #jamarroberts #choreography #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/CDNHgHSgrKM/?igshid=1sncra7i3z5fg

Posted by • @sadlers_wells Challenge for today: Throw away your inhibitions, be bold and be a bit more can-do-co... 😎⁠ ⁠ Our #WorkoftheWeek comes from the ever-cool @CandocoDanceCompany. Their production of Face In by American-Israeli choreographer Yasmeen Godder invites you into a world where the dancers dance with pleasure and flirt with both the banal and the ridiculous. It was performed on our stage back in spring 2018. ⁠ ⁠ #dance #contemporarydance #candoco #whatdancecanbe #yasmeengodder #choreography #facein #motivation #lifegoals (at Milan, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCz3c8Hll4F/?igshid=12pvadyu045wb

From • @tate #WorkoftheWeek is Meredith Frampton’s delicate oil painting of Marguerite Kelsey. 🎨 This was painted at Frampton’s St John’s Wood studio and had to be completed quickly because the fresh magnolias in the scene would not last long. Kelsey’s dress was made for the painting by the artist's mother and is both classical in its simplicity and deliberately modern because it is uncorseted. This sort of tunic dress and straight hair are typical of the fashionable boyish ‘garçonne style’ that was made popular in the 1920s by designers like Coco Chanel. At the time Kelsey was a popular professional artist’s model in her late teens known for her gracefulness and ability to hold poses for a long time. In 1982 Tate held a retrospective of Frampton’s work and Kelsey was the only living sitter who had not been traced. On seeing reviews of the exhibition, she contacted the gallery and was reunited with the portrait. Swipe left to see Tate's exhibition poster from 1982. ​ ​Meredith Frampton, Marguerite Kelsey, 1928 https://www.instagram.com/p/CAFoDBLJMLZQ-Rvkxjjl0rqRzT0r6K39hmQloI0/?igshid=npvev4sjg4l

Repost #tate #WorkoftheWeek is this dreamlike charcoal creation by Paule Vézelay, typical of her time spent in Paris from the 1920s. The work holds an otherworldly quality with its pure, spherical forms that float within a grainy grey. Paule Vézelay, Forms 1936, at Tate Modern. #paulevezelay #France #charcoal https://www.instagram.com/p/B9064ckquiR/?igshid=ezggc9zapjsr

#layers #pastednewspapers #ShozoShimamoto #tate #WorkoftheWeek is Shozo Shimamoto's 'Holes', a painting made from layers of pasted newspapers, which have been pierced to create holes in its surface. Viewed from a distance, the work looks like a lunar landscape, all craters and bumps. 🌕 ​ ​There's an interesting relationship between the artist's choice of delicate hues, and the destructiveness action of piercing the paper. Shimamoto however, feels that his work transcends the violent nature of his techniques: ‘even if my method seems shocking and violent [...] because I am an artist my purpose is to make the work beautiful, to show the beauty of everything. I’m just working on creating beauty.’ ​ ​See the painting up close at Tate Modern. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7tFdYTKlQP/?igshid=c3b7b8q2in5e

Regram from @Tate ••• #WorkoftheWeek: William Blake portrays a young and muscular Isaac Newton, rather than the older figure of popular imagination. He is crouched on a rock at the bottom of the sea. Blake was critical of what he considered to be Newton’s reductive, scientific approach and shows him merely following the rules of his compass, blind to the beauty surrounding him. Newton said: 'I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' See #WilliamBlake's Newton 1795–c.1805 on display at Tate Britain, in an exhibition of more than 300 of the artist's iconic works. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6JAE4Np3BzbRPervHCDc6FkH1khIfg7ZyHf7g0/?igshid=1v8fajfxashfz