Sotheby's New York achieved its highest auction total ever last night, selling $380.6 million worth of postwar and contemporary art, led by a $105.4 million Warhol.
Molon fills the vacancy left by Judith Tannenbaum, who stepped down in February after 13 years in the position. She will remain with the museum as an adjunct curator through the end of the year…
The top price paid was for Judd's Untitled (Bernstein 90-01), a 1990 wall stack of black aluminum and Plexiglas. It brought $3.5 million, equal to its high estimate, from an unidentified U.S…
The work of artists from Arab and North African countries is thriving, complex, and increasingly visible on the international scene.
"In Praise of Shadows," the current exhibition at Istanbul Modern curated by Paolo Colombo, explores the rich, form-revealing cast of the shadow in contemporary art.
Taking off from the Old Masters, George Condo paints grotesque yet appealing figures that exist somewhere in the territory where Francis Bacon meets Hans Bellmer.
Portraiture has become increasingly conceptual as it addresses not only personal identity but also issues of politics, social inequity, and our obsession with celebrity.
In their competition for clients, the top auction houses resort to wining, dining, hand-holding, house calls, appraisals, loans, guarantees, single-work catalogues, and providing employment for…
Artists are finding inspiration in gags, slapstick, clowns, comics, and stand-up comedy. The results are sometimes satirical, sometimes ludicrous, and sometimes ‘so funny you could cry’.