LONDON.- The new commission for the Fourth Plinth, Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, was unveiled today in London’s Trafalgar Square. Commissioned by the Mayor of London and supported by Arts Council England, AlixPa…
Man’s childhood comic collection fetches $3.5 million at Heritage Auctions in New York
DALLAS (AP).- Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of …
Exhibition of early work by New York painter Jonathan Lasker on view at Cheim & Read
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read present an exhibition of early work by New York painter Jonathan Lasker. The show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977–1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker’s methodology, and ideas abou…
Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle, and Ewan Gibbs exhibit at Timothy Taylor Gallery
LONDON.- Timothy Taylor Gallery presents an exhibition that brings together the work of Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs. All three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America. The exhibition is Ewan Gibbsʼ third at Tim…
Major exhibition of new work by Urs Fischer opens at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery announces a major exhibition of new work by Urs Fischer, his first exhibition with the gallery. Fischer’s uncanny ability to envisage and produce objects on the brink of falling apart or undergoing psychic transform…
Exhibition of works by Russian Realist artists opens at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
CHEMNITZ.- With the exhibition The Peredvizhniki – Russian Realist Painters, the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is showing 90 works on loan from the State Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. The Peredvizhniki were an im…
Multi-media artist Jessica Stockholder commissioned for major downtown Chicago art installation
CHICAGO, IL.- Chicago-based, internationally-renowned multi-media artist Jessica Stockholder has been commissioned by the Chicago Loop Alliance (CLA) business organization to create a dramatic, three-dimensional public art installation this summer in …
Three videos by Ernie Gehr on view at the Carpenter Center focus on verticality and urban sightseeing
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University presents Ernie Gehr: Picture Taking on view in the Sert Gallery from February 14 through April 1, 2012. This is the second exhibition in a newly created space for viewing mo…
Bonhams to sell secretaire assembled from a cabinet reputedly supplied to King Carlos IV
LONDON.- A satinwood, mahogany, sycamore and marquetry and parcel gilt secretaire cabinet, which was reconstructed from an important cabinet attributed to Seddon, Son and Shackleton reputedly for King Charles IV of Spain in 1793, is to be sold at Bonh…
Rare Lawrence of Arabia first editions for sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- A valuable collection of books by T. E Lawrence, including a rare first edition of his controversial work, The Mint, goes under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale in London on 27 March. In total, the collection could …