Phillips de Pury Sells Off 21st Century Art

Phililips de Pury kicks off a themed auction series next week with Now: Art of the 21st Century. Promising “the most exciting contemporary works of art, design and photography to be made since the Millenium and that will come to define our current epoch,” the sale takes place September 26th in London. As though that ringing endorsement wasn’t enough, Simon De Pury assures it will be a “ground-breaking and taste-making” auction, including a selection of piss paintings, skull art, dead insects and monogrammed luggage featured after the jump. Read more »

Artist’s New Urinal is 10 Times Bigger Than Duchamp’s

On Saturday, Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea opens a group show featuring work by three artists: Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, and Jeff Koons. Koh, who has made use of chocolate, semen, blood and vomit in past works, has created something decidedly more permanent: a 21-foot long porcelain urinal, already smashed and glued back together to save any would-be vandals Dadaists the hassle. No word on what sort of work or balloonery Koons and Kelley will show. The show, curated by Javier Peres, opens April 4th and will be on view at 541 West 24th Street through May 16th.

Photo by Fine Art Ship