Trunk calls: I am looking at a tree that is bearing some very strange fruit. Pairs of headphones have sprouted from its branches and are dangling invitingly at head height. Put on a pair and you’ll hear something surprising - the secret soundtrack of trees. The inner life of trees has been a lifelong obsession for the artist Alex Metcalf. [Guardian]
Many-colored Glass: Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke do windows: By the lights of many in the international art world, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke are the leading painters of our day, though it’s hard to find anyone who will declare them equally great. (I’m an exception.) Their careers are intertwined by biography and circumstance. [New Yorker]
Dubai Auction Sets Records: Parviz Tanavoli’s sculpture “The Wall (Oh Persepolis)” set a new world record for modern Iranian art when it sold for $2.84 million at Christie’s International Modern and Contemporary Art auction in Dubai on Wednesday night. The sale also marked the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction in the Middle East. Mr. Tanavoli’s piece, a nearly 6-foot-tall bronze sculpture covered in hieroglyphics, was one of many works by Middle Eastern artists that dominated the auction. [NY Sun]
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