NEW YORK, NY.- The original art from Page 10, issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (DC, 1986) became the single most valuable piece of American comic art to ever sell when it brought $448,125 as part of Heritage A…
Yardbirds Guitarist Chris Dreja to Display Historical Photographs at ZepFest, Memorial Day
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Dreja’s classic historical art focuses on legendary portraits of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, including the back portrait from Led Zeppelin 1. One photograph, featuring Jimmy, has been autographed by both Chris and Jimmy for the…
Yardbirds Guitarist Chris Dreja to Display Historical Photographs at ZepFest, Memorial Day
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Dreja’s classic historical art focuses on legendary portraits of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, including the back portrait from Led Zeppelin 1. One photograph, featuring Jimmy, has been autographed by both Chris and Jimmy for the…
KOW Berlin Brings Cady Noland and Santiago Sierra Together for Exhibition
BERLIN.- In Cady Noland and Santiago Sierra, KOW Berlin brings two artists together who regard social violence not as a departure from social normality but as an expression of the normative form of rule and economic system we all implicitly support: ca…
Puerto Rico Painter Jose Torres Martino Dies at 94
By: Danica Coto, Associated Press
SAN JUAN (AP).- Jose Antonio Torres Martino, a Puerto Rican painter and writer who helped create and expand art and journalism institutions on the U.S. island, died Friday. He was 94. Torres died at Pavia Hospital in S…
Film Posters from Ghana on View at The International Design Museum in Munich
MUNICH.- Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents ‘Deadly and Brutal’ film posters from Ghana, on view until June 26, 2011. Graphic design from West Africa: Ever since the 1980s, hand-painted posters have advertised Noll…
‘Deadly and Brutal’ Film Posters from Ghana on View at The International Design Museum Munich
MUNICH.- Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents ‘Deadly and Brutal’ film posters from Ghana, on view until June 26, 2011. Graphic design from West Africa: Ever since the 1980s, hand-painted posters have advertised Noll…
Public Art Fund Presents Rob Pruitt’s Monument to the Father of Pop Art: Andy Warhol
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Public Art Fund presents Rob Pruitt’s The Andy Monument, March 30 – October 2, 2011, at the northwest corner of Union Square. The monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York’s enduring cultural icon…
Frank Miller’s 1986 Dark Knight Batman & Robin Splash Page to Be Offered at Heritage Auctions
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The iconic original art for the page 10 splash page from issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s The Dark Knight Returns, the comic series that almost single-handedly re-vitalized Batman, and defined the best of 1980s comics, is exp…
First Major Retrospective to Honor Artist Sheila Hicks: 50 Years at the Institute of Contemporary Art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, the first major retrospective to honor this extraordinary American artist. The exhibition is on view from March 24 through August 7, 2011. Sheila Hicks has buil…