Contemporary art and artists, celebrity, notoriety, branding and mass media, fame and fortune are essential elements of the provocative exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World, presented by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) this summer. Organized by Tate Modern in […]
Daily Archives: June 10, 2010
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“Revealing Culture,” an exhibition highlighting the works of contemporary artists with disabilities, at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center runs through Aug. 29. The multisensory exhibition features more than 130 works of art in a broad range of media― installations, video, performance, […]
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island.Open through October 17, […]
The auction, which was well-attended, established two new artist records and achieved an extremely healthy sell-through rate by value of 81.4%. Jo Vickery, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby’s Russian Art Department, said: “I am delighted by the solid results which have […]
On Tuesday 6th July 2010, in the first ever sale of its type, Sotheby’s will bring together some 21 lots, the intrinsic quality and importance of which will be matched by extraordinary nature of their provenance. Ranging in date from the 16th […]
Christie’s New York announced the appointment of Mr. Everett Fahy, former chairman of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former Director of the Frick Collection, as senior consultant to Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Art department. Mr. Fahy […]