Eleven originals created by the cheeky, sneaky graffiti artist Banksy sold for over £540,000 at Bonham’s auction house in London last Wednesday. The Bristol-born artist, who has managed to keep his identity a secret despite worldwide notoriety, is a divisive figure in the art world, at once infuriating the establishment with his bold stunts and […]
Today marks the closing of British artist Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum, the sprawling installation in the old Essex Street Market space on Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. It’s an ambitious project that manages an eeriness and subtle care and respect for the otherworldly and absolutely mundane in the daily lives of residents […]
Rindy Sam claims that planting a luscious lipstick kiss on an all-white Cy Twombly painting was “an artistic act provoked by the power of art.” As her case goes to trial, the 30-year-old French artist will have to defend her swoon against a prosecution that wants her to pay a fine of 4500 euros (about […]
