NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary Art from the Collection, a complete reinstallation of The Museum of Modern Art’s 14,740-square-foot galleries for contemporary art, offers a focused examination of artistic practice since the late 1960s and how current …
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction Realises $62 Million-Within Pre-Sale Expectations
LONDON.- This evening, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the solid total of £41,091,800 ($61,806,176/€50,111,626) – within pre-sale expectations (est: £38,330,000- 52,830,000). This represents the third highest total …
High Museum to Host Retrospective of Iconic 20th Century Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will host “Henri
Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” the first major retrospective in
the U.S.
in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and
influential
masters. On view from…
On their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants: Medallion tells of the leaving of Liverpool
LIVERPOOL.- Liverpool is linking up with Australia to tell the emotional story of child and youth migration. From 1860 until the 1960s migration schemes saw youngsters and teenagers separated from families and sent to the ends of the earth to begin ne…
Single-Owner Ceramic Collection from the Factory of Marie Antoinette’s Sister to Make 500,000 Pounds at Bonhams
LONDON.- The fantastic Procida Mirabelli di Lauro collection of Italian porcelain is to be auctioned at Bonhams, New Bond Street on Tuesday 6th July. This Italian single-owner collection, the most comprehensive of its type to ever come on to the market…
High Museum of Art to Explore Salvador Dalí’s Late Work
ATLANTA, GA.- The first
major exhibition to reevaluate
the last half of Salvador Dalí’s career will be presented
exclusively at
the High Museum of Art this August. Beginning in the late 1930s,
Dalí went
through a radic…
Sims Reed Gallery Acquires Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s Estate of Print Editions
LONDON.- The Sims Reed Gallery announced their
recent acquisition of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s highly revered estate of print
editions. In Paolozzi’s first show solely devoted to his screenprints, his
iconic 1960s Pop Art prints will be showcas…
Toledo Museum Presents The Psychedelic 60s: Posters from the Rock Era
TOLEDO, OH.- Of all the visual art produced in the late 1960s, the most influential may be San Francisco psychedelic concert posters. Many are instantly recognizable because of their innovative use of text, psychedelic colors and coded messages. Not on…
Show at Brooklyn Museum Unveils Andy Warhol’s Catholic, Abstract Side
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- As a pop art pioneer, Andy Warhol blazed his way to fame with trademark Brillo soap pad boxes and silk-screens of Campbell’s Soup cans. But a new museum exhibit shows pop art was just a seven-year phase for Warhol in the 1960s, bef…
Lester Johnson Admired Expressionist Artist Dies at 91
New
York, NY – Lester Johnson, an admired artist whose expressionist
brushwork lent
vigor and force to the human figure — isolated and embattled, or alive
with the
joy of movement in crowds — died on May 30. He was 91 and lived in
…