PARIS.- With Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), urban experience is at the heart of the exhibition: in an America shaken by the Wall Street Crash, her images of 1930s New York convey her fascination with an urban landscape in the throes of dramatic change. A…
Marilyn Monroe portraits featured in Swann Galleries’ auction of fine photographs & photobooks
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, February 28 Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks that ranges from 19th century albums depicting exotic lands to classic views of New York City, to thought-provoking works by contemporary ar…
The Ruins of Detroit: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre exhibit at Wilmotte Gallery
LONDON.- Tristan Hoare and Julien Dobbs-Higginson present a selection of photographs from the much acclaimed body of work The Ruins of Detroit (published: Steidl, 2010). Photographs from this series have previously been exhibited in Ville Fertile, Cit
Cindy Sherman film still to lead Sotheby’s mid-season Contemporary art sale
NEW YORK, NY.- On 9th March Sotheby’s New York will present Untitled Film Still #21 by Cindy Sherman as a highlight of the Contemporary Art auction (est. $150/200,000). The iconic 1978 image from the celebrated series sees the artist cast herself …
Cindy Sherman film still to lead Sotheby’s mid-season Contemporary art sale
NEW YORK, NY.- On 9th March Sotheby’s New York will present Untitled Film Still #21 by Cindy Sherman as a highlight of the Contemporary Art auction (est. $150/200,000). The iconic 1978 image from the celebrated series sees the artist cast herself …
United States pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale to be presented by the Bronx Museum
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present the work of Sarah Sze at the U.S. Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 55th International Art Exhibition, on view from June through November 2013. Sze will create a sequence of constructed envir…
United States pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale to be presented by the Bronx Museum
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present the work of Sarah Sze at the U.S. Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 55th International Art Exhibition, on view from June through November 2013. Sze will create a sequence of constructed envir…
Exhibition of new works by British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE at James Cohan Gallery
NEW YORK.- James Cohan Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE running through March 24th. In this multi-part exhibition of new sculptures, photoworks and the premiere of a new film, Shonibare exp…
Sotheby’s to offer Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic masterpiece Sleeping Girl from 1964 in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 9 May 2012 will feature Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl from 1964 (36 x 36 in., 91.5 x 91.5 cm) – one of the high-points of the artist’s comic book inspired paintings and…
Shipwrecked silver begins voyage back to Spain on two Spanish military C-130 cargo planes
TAMPA (AP).- A 17-ton haul of silver coins, lost for two centuries in the wreck of a sunken Spanish galleon, began its journey back to its home country on Friday after the deep-sea explorers who lifted it to the surface lost their claim to ownership. T…