Artists and collectors often have relationships that transcend the transactional, forming deep connections that shape both the artists’ work and collectors’ understanding of craft. The exhibition “On A Comfortable Sofa Dreamed,” at Superhouse, uses the idea underlying these connections as a jumping-off point, presenting pieces created by artists who were given the prompt “How might your work respond to the architecture of a fictional home?” Cocurated with Studio AHEAD’s Homan Rajai and Elena Dendiberia, the show runs until August 2.
MillerKnoll has opened a new archive in Western Michigan, comprising more than a million objects. Taken together, these amount to a compelling history of modern design. According to Fast Company, the facility’s first exhibition, “Manufacturing Modern,” highlights Herman Miller and Knoll mainstays like the Eames Lounge chair and Eero Saarinen’s Womb chair.
In 2019, Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-karat gold toilet, America (2016), was stolen from England’s Blenheim Palace. Four men were arrested for the theft in November 2023, and now two of them have been sentenced, to two and four years in prison. “Given the level of planning that enabled the raid to be carried out within five minutes, it was unusual that the offenders left such a trail of evidence in their wake,” Shan Saunders, a representative of the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement, according to ArtNet.
The world my have first heard of Ronnie Cutrone as Andy Warhol’s assistant, but he soon made his own name as an artist with cartoon-filled compositions. Up through September 30, a new show at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich places the two men’s creations in conversation. The exhibition includes previously unseen Polaroid photos by Warhol as well as a range of pieces by Cutrone, allowing visitors to ponder the relationships between the artists while considering works that defined the Pop and post-Pop eras.
