NEW YORK, NY.- Number 35 presents a site-specific installation by Markus Linnenbrink. Known internationally for his brightly colored resin paintings and sculptures, here Markus Linnenbrink will create an installation that will cover the walls, ceiling …
Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners of 11th Annual National Design Awards
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 11th annual National Design Awards program, now in its second decade. Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Mog…
New Works: A Series of Monotypes by Francoise Gilot at BLT Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Françoise Gilot is one of the premiere high modernists still working today, and with the recent death of Louise Bourgeois, we are endlessly confronted with the reality of the disappearance of artists whom obtain a truly historical aware…
David D. Holbrook Elected Chairman of Noguchi Museum Board of Trustees
NEW YORK, NY.- The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (known as The Noguchi Museum) has announced the election of David D. Holbrook as Chairman of its Board of Trustees at its Annual Meeting in May. Mr. Holbrook has been a Trustee of the Museum…
Faulkner, Kerouac, and Wall Street to Be Sold at Christie’s
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 22, Christie’s will offer the sale of Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including the finest collection of William Faulkner books and manuscripts. This unique collection comprises a virtually complete representation of Faulk…
Mark Twain’s Unpublished Manuscript, ‘A Family Sketch’, Sets Auction Record
NEW YORK, NY.- Today at Sotheby’s New York, the second offering of rare books and manuscripts from The James S. Copley Library achieved a total of $2,783,347, bringing the total for the first four auctions of the Library to $7,146,231. The Mark Tw…
Masters of Photography Sale Including 275 Items at artnet Auctions
NEW
YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions offers continuous online auctions
of fine
art, prints and photographs. Starting April 15, artnet Auctions will
present 275
exquisite photographs by artists from Berenice Abbott to James Van Der
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‘ WARHOL’S JEWS: TEN PORTRAITS RECONSIDERED ‘ Opens At The JEWISH MUSEUM
New York, NY – Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered will be on view at The Jewish Museum on view from March 16 through August 3, 2008. When it premiered in 1980, Andy Warhol’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century wa…
Important Works by Tamara de Lempicka from the Collection of Wolfgang Joop to be Sold at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 5 and 6, 2009 ten paintings by Tamara de Lempicka from the collection of noted fashion designer Wolfgang Joop will be offered at Sotheby’s New York. It is the finest group of paintings by the artist ever to appear at auctio…
‘Red,’ a Play About Artist Mark Rothko, is Big Winner at Tonys
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- The tense drama “Red” delivered one of its half-dozen Tony Awards to Eddie Redmayne for his performance as the young, increasingly defiant assistant to artist Mark Rothko. But Redmayne, honored Sunday at the 2010 Tony Awards as best…