In 2008 New York feminist artist Judith Bernstein was having her first show in decades at Mitchell Algus Gallery, presenting her iconoclastic “Horizontal” series, large-scale drawings of phallus-like screws dating back to 1966. By coincidence, Los Angeles art provocateur Paul … Read More
Bringing to a close, at least for now, one of the strangest art-related lawsuits in recent years, a federal judge ruled today that Peter Doig did not create a painting its owner claimed the artist made years ago, as an … Read More
On day three of the Venice Biennale preview, many visitors began to make their way out of the main exhibition and into the surrounding pavilions and events. Below, a mix of Joan Jonas, Cheetos at the Spanish pavilion, and more … Read More
Sotheby’s has officially surpassed itself this week, recording its highest-ever total sales of contemporary art in Europe. Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild, which sold for £30.4 million ($46.3 million), contributed significantly to a grand total of £140.4 million ($214 million) over … Read More
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