Only four of the 37 lots on offer failed to find buyers at the auction, which seem unhindered by the withdrawal of two pictures reportedly consigned by embattled casino magnate Steve Wynn.
Boris Groys’s latest book of essays, In the Flow (Verso Books), has been marketed as being about art on the Internet. This is deceptive. For one thing, Groys’s definition of “art on the…
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Back in 1940 Newsweek reported that out of 2,500 paintings produced by Corot, 7,800 were in the United States. In 1953 ARTnewsstated that there was a “saying in France that Corot painted…
New evidence suggests that the museum obscured the history of how it came by its Malevich collection. New evidence suggests that the museum obscured the history of how it came by its Malevich…
The aspiration to expand a formal or purely esthetic system into a philosophy of life was—and is—a distinguishing characteristic of Russian culture from the Orthodox icon to Socialist…