Online Magazine No.376

Trends in 2024, Photographer Antony Cairns, Art books to order, Landon Metz, Digital art, Picasso ceramics, and more | [Christie's]( [BUY]( | [SELL]( | [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Trends in 2024: why we’re eyeing cherry-red handbags, AI video, Tang pottery and Ingrid Donat]( [Photographer Antony Cairns: ‘I’m trying to build an archive of what the city is and what it can be’]( ‘ [Our A-Z of digital art — how to navigate the world of Bored Apes, CryptoPunks and Pudgy Penguins]( [Art books to order now: tempting tomes on Sofonisba Anguissola, Meiji-era art, Aboudia and more]( [Picasso’s ceramics: a guide to the techniques, motifs, glazes, stamps and forms used in his 633 editions]( [‘I want to embody a sense of infiniteness’: Landon Metz’s quest to fuse art and Eastern philosophy]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [The line is fundamental to the creation of art, and Sol LeWitt spent much of his career analysing its possibilities. From 1960s gallery wall paintings to etchings and canvases, he returned to the line time and time again — and Straight Lines in all Directions #9 is a unique screen-printed treatment of the subject from 1996]( [Estimate: $30,000-50,000 21 February, New York]( [In the early 2000s, Cartier flipped its classic Tank watch on its side to produce the ‘Divan’. A widened dial was a feature of the new design, but the dual-time Tank Divan instead had a pair of dials placed side by side, covering two time zones. This lavish example is in white gold set with diamonds]( [Estimate: $12,000-18,000 9-27 February, Online]( [FIAM Italia was founded 50 years ago by the designer Vittorio Livi. His vision was to use glass to create furniture, beginning with a radical, wave-inspired stool and progressing, in 1984, to the ‘Ragno’ dining table. Named for its spider-like stance, it was the first table to be made entirely from a single sheet of glass]( [Estimate: $4,000-6,000 9-27 February, Online]( [The auctioneer James Christie published A Disquisition Upon Etruscan Vases in 1806, producing 100 copies to be distributed to friends. Although the work is based mainly on Thomas Hope’s collection, the female figure turning a somersault appeared on a water jar owned by Charles Towneley, which is today in the British Museum]( [Estimate: £1,000-1,500 8 February, London](   © [Christie’s 2024]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Jean Royère (1902-1981), ‘Liane’ chandelier, c. 1950 (detail). Painted metal; paper shade. Without shade: 41¾ x 26 in. Sold for €1,068,500 in Design on 29 November 2023 at Christie’s in Paris. © 2024 Estate of Jean Royère / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / A rare, sterling silver mini Kelly, Hermès, c. 1990s. 14.5 x 16.25 x 7 cm. Sold for $214,200 in Handbags Online: The New York Edit on 12 December 2023 at Christie's in New York / Niceaunties, ONsen Ideals Of Nirvana (ONION), executed in 2023 and minted on 8 January 2024 (detail). Single-channel video. 00:00:56 seconds (1080 x 1080 pixels). Sold for $5,755 in Creating Connections: Digital Art for Connectivity on 31 January 2024 // Antony Cairns. Photo: Clare Hewitt. Antony Cairns (b. 1980), IBM TYO5_010, 2023. Inkjet on 52 blue computer punch cards and pins on softboard and wood in Perspex. 43 x 30 x 2⅝ in (109.1 x 76.1 x 6.8 cm). Price on request. Offered in We are the Future: Knocking on Heaven’s Door, until 14 February 2024 at Christie’s in London // Beeple (b. 1981), Everydays: The First 5000 Days, 2021 (detail). Non-fungible token (jpg). 21,069 x 21,069 pixels (319,168,313 bytes). Minted on 16 February 2021. Sold for $69,346,250 on 11 March 2021 in a single-lot sale concurrently with First Open. Courtesy of the artist, Mike Winkelmann // Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Tête de chèvre de profil (A.R. 155), 1952. White earthenware ceramic plate, with coloured engobe and glaze. 16 in (40.6 cm). Sold for $252,000 on 13 November 2023 at Christie’s online. © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York // Landon Metz in his New York studio. Photo: Emiliano Granado