Noah Verrier’s painting of a sandwich (minus one bite) sold for $4,999. Accused by some of being too commercial, he said he prefers objects “connected to who we are today.”
“Chain of Light,” an album of four qawwalis the Pakistani singer recorded in 1990, are arriving after being discovered in the vaults of Peter Gabriel’s label.
As cultural institutions face an existential crisis over who funds them and how, the 88-year-old artist Hans Haacke is still making curators and collectors clutch their pearls.
The trumpeter, now 89, is at work on albums, live shows and sculptures, driven by the joy of creating and communicating. “I don’t look back,” he said. “I go forward.”