Steinway pairs visual artists and composers in new piano commissions

A high-tech player piano, decorated by the Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford and programmed to play a new score by the Grammy-winning jazz composer Robert Glasper, is the first in a series of three artistic collaborations organised and commissioned by the historic piano-makers Steinway & Sons. The unique object, Apollo/Still Shining, is due to be auctioned (with an estimate of $400,000 to $600,000) during Christie’s Post-war and contemporary art day sale in New York on 11 May, to benef