Frame of the Week

• The Cure of Folly depicts a man getting trepanned. This was a surgical procedure done to remove what was thought to be "the stone of folly” or a cure for madness.

• Here, a tulip bulb is growing from the man’s head which has the same name as a tumor in Dutch.

• The monk is telling the surgeon to not use surgery, but to pray. Similarly, the nun is skeptical (the book on her head shows that she thinks books are the best cure for foolishness, but no one will listen).

• The inscription reads “Master, cut the stone out, fast. My name is Lubbert Das” (Lubbert Das was a foolish man in Dutch theater).

Fame of the Week

• This Kandinsky was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for ￡37.2 million GBP on March 1st. This was the most expensive work sold at the auction.

• There were also Picasso’s, Munch’s, a Richter and a work by Freud bringing the entire evening’s sales to a staggering ￡172.6 million GBP.

• For more info on the auction, click here!

Find of the Week

• On Saturday, March 11th from 5-7pm, Asuka Anastacia Ogawa is having the opening reception to her fourth solo presentation with gallery Blum & Poe in Los Angeles.

• Ogawa deploys her signature, childlike figures, depicting them in scenes of quiet meditation or rituals centered around natural talismans. From blumandpoe.com