NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Chelsea announced that an exhibition of recent sculptures by the Spanish artist David Rodríguez Caballero opened today, and continues through March 24, 2012. The exhibition features Rodríguez Caballero’s characteristic…
"Oz" ruby slippers find their way home; major acquisition for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has acquired a pair of the iconic ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio led a group of “angel donors” whose gifts to th…
National Museum of Women in Arts celebrates 25th anniversary with new exhibition
WASHINGTON, DC.- In keeping with its mission to rediscover and celebrate women artists of the past and demonstrate their continued relevance, the National Museum of Women in Arts presents Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versaille…
Giant child on a rocking horse by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset unveiled in Trafalgar Square today
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…
Phillips de Pury & Company New York Contemporary Art Auctions
New York City.- Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce highlights from its New York Contemporary Art Auctions. “Under the Influence”, starts off the activities at 12 noon on March 8th at 450 Park Avenue, New York. More than 300 lots r…