How Carmen Herrera Became One of Art History’s Most Celebrated Abstractionists
The artist, whose achievements were recognized later in her career, turns 105 years old on May 30.
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A Look Inside the New MoMA: Part 2
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Carmen Herrera Sells for $2.9 M., New Record, at Sotheby’s Charity Auction
Her previous top mark was made last fall at Phillips.
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‘Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris 1944–1968’ at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
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Phillips $88.5 M. Contemporary Sale Comes Up Short, with Passes on Burri and Pollock
The top lot was a Joan Miró that sold for $22.6 million, but big passes brought the total down.
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Mission Accomplished?: As Mainstream Art Museums Rush to Diversify, What is the Role of Culturally Specific Museums Working for a Cause?
In July, El Museo del Barrio, a museum in upper Manhattan devoted to exhibiting and collecting Latinx and Latin American art, issued a statement in response to the family separation crisis at…
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‘Queenie: Selected Artworks by Female Artists from El Museo del Barrio’s Collection’ at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York
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‘Being an Artist in the ’40s Was Like Suicide’: On the Long Career of Carmen Herrera
For the majority of her career, Carmen Herrera’s name wasn’t well known. Looking back at the ARTnews archives, only one of her shows was reviewed, in 1965, and then there was no mention of her aga<a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CarmenHerrera" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"…
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