The NYTimes’ Carol Vogel has been able to squeeze three days worth of coverage (Day one, two & three) regarding the exclusive Sotheby’s London auction of Damien Hirst works titled, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. The 223 works were all bought by the auction’s close for a grand total of $200.7 million, exceeding estimates and […]
MSNBC.com has a piece on 798, one of the massive art spaces in Beijing gaining worldwide notoriety and dripping with a hip, trendy sheen unseen in the New York art world in recent times. More impressive is the sheer size of the space, owing to its previous life as a munitions factory.
(ARTINFO) Marc Chagall Window Vandalized; Seven Indicted in International Art-Fraud Schemes; Basel Rejects Claim from Heirs of Persecuted Art Dealer; Permit for Oil Drilling Near Spiral Jetty Denied; (NYTIMES) Russian and Rich: Art’s New Tastemaker; (ARTFORUM) Sugar Rush — Terence Koh’s Asia Song Society opening reception; Cory Arcangel live and the opening of the new […]
Through June 28, Gagosian Gallery is displaying 12 Roy Lichtenstein paintings featuring female subjects. Titled “Roy Lichtenstein: Girls,” the exhibit is another testament to Lichtenstein’s continuing relevance and ability to surprise the most jaded viewer of Pop Art. A retrospective at SFMoMA in 2005 transformed me from a passive admirer to a fervent, thrilled […]
Robert Rauschenberg, who died yesterday night, was one of the first artists I came to care about during art school. Not just because he famously erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning (one of the first artists whose work I came to loathe), nor just because his medium-ambiguous works helped make possible much of what […]
Memoirist, novelist, editor, champion of irreverence, and ubiquitous tastemaker Dave Eggers has organized a show at Apex Art that features a who’s-who of contemporary artists who share his sense of humor. Many of his choices are quite well known, having become as exposed and “hip” as he is, and some have lent their vision to […]
Reporting on one of the more bizarre domestic disputes because of the parties involved, the NYPost printed today:
The notorious Italian actress and former member of Parliament has filed suit demanding that her controversial artist ex-husband pay her $2.3 million in back child support for the son she kidnapped from him a decade ago.
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The © MURAKAMI retrospective at the Los Angeles MOCA, while spanning a massive 35,000 sq. ft. and nearly fifteen years of Takashi Murakami’s work, it’s the inclusion of his newest and most unique works that matter in this instance:
Of particular importance, is the debut of Oval Buddha, an enormous self-portrait sculpture in the guise of […]
Opening this weekend in the Lever House (Park Avenue and 54th Street) lobby is Damien Hirst’s latest, and quite ambitious, piece titled School: The Archaeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity, and the Search for Knowledge. The $10 million installation was purchased by the owner of Lever House, Aby Rosen, (who also owns the Seagram Building […]
Less than two weeks after a successful showing at auction, Banksy once again explodes onto headlines, allegedly unmasked, working, and on camera. The Times Online (UK) reports that a passerby was able to take a camera-phone snapshot of the man who had extended the street’s double yellow line into the flower you see pictured, as […]
