Lining the walls in the fifth-floor gallery that houses the show are shelves and display cases containing a riot of objects: tchotchkes, paintings, scrolls, books, a novelty lamp in the shape of a ham…
In May, the auction house hosted what was then the most valuable contemporary art auction, which totaled $388 million, including a Rothko that became the highest-selling work of postwar art at…
Liberty Enlightening the World was not really conceived for the Americans to whom she was given but for the French audience toward which she faced from across the Atlantic.