Robert Mnuchin Sells $35 M. de Kooning, Chicago’s ‘Feminist Moment,’ and More: Morning Links from October 9, 2019
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Willem de Kooning
Phillips Nets $99.9 M. at Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Led by $10.2 M. de Kooning
The sale set new artist records for Nicholas Party, Tomoo Gokita, and Dana Schutz.
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Wool Gathering: Janine and J. Tomilson Hill’s Dreams for Their Exemplary Collection Overlooking the High Line
The couple has assembled a world-class collection of more than 400 works, valued at over $800 million, that include modern, contemporary, Old Master, and Renaissance objects.
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Grace and Will: An Excerpt from Mary Gabriel’s New Book ‘Ninth Street Women’ on Painter Grace Hartigan and Art Market Changes in the 1950s
The book, published by Little Brown, recounts female artists' unbending ambitions and the evolution of an economy in which their work has been undervalued.
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Maximum Minimalism: Emily and Mitchell Rales’s Glenstone Museum Grows
With the completion of a roughly 200,000-square-foot expansion, the D.C.-area institution will rank as one of the most ambitious private museums in the world.
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Slow Painting
Slow Painting imbeds a premonition of something potentially enormous held in reserve that can only be revealed slowly.
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Works From the Late Olga Hirshhorn’s Collection Will Go to Artis—Naples, Cultural Organization in Naples, Florida
The estate of art collector Olga Hirshhorn (the widow of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who founded the eponymous museum in Washington, D.C.) announced today that it will give 400 works from her personal…
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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
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…
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Retrospective: Barnett Newman on the New York School
And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago
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Casa de Kooning: An Afternoon at East Hampton’s New Artist Colony
In 1975, Elaine de Kooning bought a modest house on Alewive Brook Road in East Hampton, New York. The town had long served as an artist colony; Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner produced some of their…
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