Baryshnikov leaps behind the lens in a bold new turn: Mikhail Baryshnikov, one of the greatest dancers in history, ever diversifying, has turned dance-photographer. His images reveal an entirely unorthodox style, as the title of his new exhibition at 401 Projects, “Merce My Way,” reveals. [IHT]
Bead Me Up, Scotty: A Crafty Take on Star Trek: Mirror Universe, Sperber’s show that opens March 20 at Caren Golden Fine Art in New York, consists of crafty Trek imagery pieced together out of beads and spools of thread. The show’s title is an allusion to the 1967 Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror,” in which the Enterprise crew is swapped with evil doppelgängers, but it also refers to the way viewers are supposed to look at the exhibit’s art — via reflective materials. [Wired]
Art sales: Buyers return to Soviet era: The boom in Russian art, which has seen sales at auction increase 30-fold since 2000, has been centred largely on the market for traditional 19th-century and early 20th-century modern art. But increasingly, “unofficial” Russian art from the post-Second World War period is beginning to attract attention. [Telegraph]
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