I. M. Pei’s Art Collection, Including Several Gifts from Influential Artists, Is Going Up for Auction
Several pieces, including top lots from Barnett Newman, were gifts to Pei from the artists themselves.
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Brancusi and America
The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…
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Color in Landscape
As Sam Gilliam's work has gained ever greater recognition, his story has often been characterized as a comeback (though he never left) or a rediscovery (though he wasn't lost).
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From the Archives: Barnett Newman Criticizes a MoMA Surrealism Show—and John Ashbery—in 1968
"My paintings are, in fact, a confrontation with Surrealism."
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The Painter of Modern Life: Kerry James Marshall Aims to Get More Images of Black Figures into Museums
The artist will be the subject of major traveling retrospective this year
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A Still Is a Still Is a Still . . . Still: Clyfford Still’s Replicas
Inspired by a rare opportunity to acquire iconic Clyfford Still paintings, buyers made headlines in 2011 when Sotheby's auctioned four Still canvases for $114 million, nearly twice the combined…
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Retrospective: Barnett Newman on the New York School
And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago
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First He Takes Manhattan: Sean Scully Prepares for Global Domination with Shows In New York, Venice, and São Paulo
My life is like some sort of fairy story sometimes," Sean Scully said, sitting in a paint-covered chair in his Chelsea studio. "I can't really believe it." He was in a buoyant mood, showing photos…
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Beyond the Infinite: Robert Rosenblum on the Sublime in Contemporary Art, in 1961
In the February 1961 issue of ARTnews Robert Rosenblum tackled the tradition of the sublime, looking at art that instills feelings of fear and awe in viewers, overwhelming the senses. First theorized…
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Spring New York Auctions Tally Monster $2.2B in Art Sales
New York's three main art auction houses—Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips—this month sold a staggering $2.2 billion in art, from Impressionist to contemporary, over 11 day and evening sales…
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Emmy spotlight: Will Ben Mendelsohn (‘The Outsider’) win again in another shocking upset?
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