Just weeks after Christie’s postwar and contemporary chairman left the auction house to become a partner in a gallery, another member of the department has defected for that world. This…
The question of what a particular museum aims to be is, today, so often preceded by the question of who’s behind its design. The recent construction boom among major American art institutions has resu…
And the artist Henry Taylor inaugurates a space of his own
An annual overview of how female artists and their work fared over the past year in the marketplace and the broader art world. Here is the 2014 edition. “Is the Pope Catholic?” Marilyn…
The deeply researched exhibition “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, co-organized by Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, gives a measure…
In a 2007 A.i.A. article, Leah Ollman wrote "her status in the Bay Area, where she has lived since 1949 and been active in arts education and civic arts initiatives, and where she has made several…
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…