Sotheby’s capped its auction week yesterday with a respectable contemporary day sale that brought in $98 million. With 323 out of 418 lots finding buyers, 80 percent of the works that went on the…
TUESDAY, MARCH 24 Lecture: Pierre Leguillon on Carl Andre at Dia Art Foundation This is part of the ongoing Artists on Artists lecture series, which examines the work of contemporary artists in Dia’s…
Do Elizabeth Peyton's shows at Gavin Brown and Michael Werner signal a new tendency toward anti-cynicism?
Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie's New York raised $38.8 million at an auction last night to benefit the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Along the way, auction records were set for no fewer than 13 artist…
Turning the tables on art-historical tradition, more women artists are depicting the naked male body.
Elizabeth Peyton chooses her subjects for a particular quality of languid sensuality—or endows them with it. Her gracefuly portraits of assorted friends, colleagues and celebrities can be seen in a tr…
The controversy around painting from photographs continues as new generations and new image-making technologies keep the debate alive.