GENEVA — A large, drop-shaped natural pearl pendant sold for a hammer price of $32 million at an auction of jewelry that once belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette, which Sotheby’s is calling a record price for a pearl […]
NEW YORK — A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL’ BAH’-skee-aht) from the collection of Yoko Ono has sold for $10.9 million.
Sotheby’s says the work, titled “Cabra” (KAH’-bruh), was sold Thursday night in New York to an unidentified buyer.
The […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. — For more than a century she has been known as the woman behind the throne, the empress who through skill and circumstance rose from lowly imperial consort to iron-fisted ruler of China at a time […]
NEW YORK — The last Leonardo da Vinci painting in private hands is going to auction in New York next month — with a pre-sale estimate of around $100 million.
Christie’s announced Tuesday that the depiction of Jesus, titled “Salvator […]
NEW YORK — A monumental self-portrait by Jean-Michael Basquiat set a world auction record for the artist at $57.3 million Tuesday evening at a Christie’s contemporary art sale.
Basquiat’s self-portrait, “Untitled, 1982,” portrays the young artist as a fiery, demonic […]
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian and Bill Cosby can’t seem to escape one another.
After facing criticism for an exhibit of works from Cosby’s personal art collection, the Smithsonian plans to include two items related to Cosby at its new African-American history […]
WASHINGTON — One of the most famous portraits of George Washington will soon get a high-tech examination and face-lift of sorts with its first major conservation treatment in decades.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has begun planning the conservation and digital […]
NEW YORK — For over half a century, New York City’s Four Seasons restaurant has been a place where Picasso meets the power lunch.
But the pairing between one of the artist’s biggest paintings and one of New York’s most illustrious […]
Une artiste expose son sexe sous «L’origine du… by quoi2news
If you’ve ever gazed into the beautiful void that is Gustav Courbet’s “The Origin of the World,” you’re probably familiar with just how provocative (and NSFW) the painting is.
As the title […]
AMSTERDAM — Dutch museums announced Tuesday they have found 139 artworks that may have been looted during the Nazi era, including paintings from masters such as Matisse, Klee and Kandinsky.
The major review of all museum collections in the country found […]
AMSTERDAM – A French landscape painting stored in an attic and kept from public view for a century because it was considered a fake is the work of Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh, a museum said on Monday citing new research.
“Sunset […]
Embodied by the ’80s karaoke party of Rock Of Ages, then wrapped in a bedazzled anarchy-symbol T-shirt and $100 skull bandana, the last lingering shreds of rock ‘n’ roll “rebellion” have long since been sanitized and repackaged as a Halloween […]
The Arab Spring countries of North Africa and the Middle East are ushering in a new generation of contemporary artists, eager to express their social and political perspectives in an era of post-revolutionary change. Journalists have taken notice, shining a […]
A nude portrait of Golden Girls star Bea Arthur sold for a whopping $1.9 million at Christie’s auction house this week. The pricey painting went to one lucky, anonymous phone bidder.
The controversial artist John Currin painted “Bea Arthur Naked” in […]
CHICAGO — Maria Tallchief, one of America’s first great prima ballerinas who gave life to such works as “The Nutcracker,” “Firebird,” and other masterpieces from legendary choreographer George Balanchine, has died. She was 88.
Tallchief died Thursday in Chicago, her daughter, […]
Is it real art or just glorified Graffiti … Throughout the world one can find this form of so called, “Street Art”. But is it real art? That’s the question … Cave paintings of prehistoric origin found on the walls […]
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