Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, Aspen art hub, Leo Messi x Refik Anadol, M.C. Escher, Anne Anlin Cheng, Summer reading, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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How Jenny Saville reinvigorated figurative art: ‘I started to think about the anatomy of a painting’
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Why artists and thinkers flock to Aspen: ‘Things can happen that couldn’t happen anywhere else’
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We visit Refik Anadol at work as he recreates Leo Messi’s favourite goal, on view in NY
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Princeton academic Anne Anlin Cheng on what it’s like to be an Asian American woman today
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‘I speak a language that few can understand’ — the enigmatic ‘mindscapes’ of M.C. Escher
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Turner’s England, the Gilded Age and 1960s counterculture: art books for summer reading
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Editor’s picks
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The New York artist Katherine Bradford is known for her luminously coloured paintings of people in outdoor settings, often swimmers. Canoe Carry, from 2007, shows two figures whose heads are hidden by the boat they are carrying. They appear to be on a riverbank, with long shadows and red flecks on the water suggesting a sunrise or sunset scene
Estimate: $8,000-12,000
until 18 July, Online
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One of only five copies produced, The Book of HOV: A Tribute to JAY-Z was made in December 2024 by the artist Daniel Arsham in collaboration with Assouline and Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation. Signed by the rapper, it celebrates a unique installation at Brooklyn Public Library the previous year, in which images, art and ephemera from his archives went on show
Estimate: $100,000-150,000
until 17 July, Online
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Commissioned in the 1380s as part of an altarpiece for the church of Sant’Agostino in San Gimignano, Tuscany, Saint Stephen is by the Sienese painter Bartolo di Fredi. The saint, shown with stones on his head to indicate the nature of his martyrdom, was one of 10 figures adorning the wings of the altarpiece. The magnificent central panel, The Presentation in the Temple, is now in the Louvre
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Kiki Smith worked with the glassblower Jonathan Christie to produce her 1999 work Yolk in an edition of 150. It represents the contents of an egg, one of the key building blocks of life — which is very much in keeping with the interests of an artist who once said: ‘We are part of the natural world, and our identity is completely attached to our relationship to our habitat and animals’
Estimate: $1,000-1,500
until 16 July, Online
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