Led by an $84.2-million Barnett Newman, Christie's New York pulled off another record auction last night, selling $744.9 million in contemporary art over a two-and-a-half-hour sale in a jam-packed sal…
A starkly empty drawing is the centerpiece of a Museum of Modern Art exhibition that explores John Cage's world-altering role in the creation and development of postmodernism
The auction house's Nov. 13 and 14 contemporary art sales will include 27 examples, anticipated to bring in excess of $20 million. The sale will allow the museum to start an acquisitions fund…
A June 28 letter to Dia Art Foundation director Philippe Vergne fromPaul Winkler, brother of Dia co-founder Helen Winkler, opposing the foundation's planned sale of artworks this fall at Sotheby's…
Dogon, Flavin, Outkast, Dave Chappelle, the Incredible Hulk, and more coexist in Robert Pruitt's identity-expanding drawings of women at the Studio Museum
Works by Barnett Newman, Gerhard Richter and Yves Klein led a $294-million contemporary art sale at Sotheby's New York last night, each setting an auction record. At $37.1 million, the Richter set an…
Nearly $700 million worth of postwar and contemporary art may change hands at evening auctions this week.
Christie's contemporary art sale last night achieved the highest total in auction history at $495 million. Records were set for Pollock, Lichtenstein, Basquiat, Manzoni, Tuymans, Cornell, Hofmann, Gus…
Following its own 2008 group survey, New York gallery Sperone Westwater continues to propose reevaluation of the post-war German group ZERO with its latest show, a solo presentation of artist Heinz <ins datetime="2011-01-20T15:03"…
Some artists' signatures are self-expression, some are design elements, and some are just fun.