The cartoonish children and animals featured in Yoshitomo Nara’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures enjoy widespread appeal because of their very adult bad attitudes. Whether the…
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…
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Accessible and affordable, the ballpoint pen has become the medium of choice for artists to make obsessive abstractions, extreme drawings, and playful riffs on venerated ink traditions
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Takashi Murakami and his studio, Kaikai Kiki, have organized a benefit auction for victims of the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Titled "New Day: Artists for Japan," the auction will be he…
China's younger artists are introspective, sophisticated, and hyper-aware of their identity in a globalized world
Best known for ultrapopular cartoony images of cutesy little children and animals, Yoshitomo Nara, 50, can be perceived in two basic ways: as a purveyor of mass-produced kitsch, from dolls and ashtr…