Katy Perry x Piet Mondrian. (Photo courtesy Idolator)
“When the auction ended at 5 p.m. on July 24, the estimates and final bids vanished from the site.” A look at the transparency protocols of online auction sites. [Bloomberg]
Calder and Pollock lead the Tate Modern’s robust 2015 exhibition lineup. [The Guardian]
Here is Katy Perry’s Piet Mondrian-inspired music video. [Rolling Stone]
Holland Cotter on “New Hells:” “The show is a maze of inscrutable references but has nicely sticky visual texture that keeps us looking even when we’re not sure what’s going on.” [NYT]
And Roberta Smith on “Paint and Styrofoam:” “The artist Tom Friedman tends to blow our minds and then move on.” [NYT]
Amid the flurry of parties surrounding the opening of the new Aspen Art Museum, Cai Guo-Qiang will unveil a work called Black Lighting, which will explode over a mountain in the ski town. [The Art Newspaper]
Klaus Biesenbach threw a garden party at his Rockaway Beach manse for the fourth issue of Out of Order magazine, a fashion publication run by recent Yale graduate Dorian Grinspan. [Page Six]
New works at the Met. [NYT]
