NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, together with YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, today announced the launch of YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. A collaboration with HP, YouTube Play was conceived t…
Sotheby’s New York Sale of Antiquities Exceeds $17 Million
NEW YORK, NY.- In a packed salesroom at Sotheby’s on Saturday
June 12th, a Marble Torso of an Emperor (probably Augustus, Tiberius or
Claudius), Roman Imperial, Julio Claudian, 1st Half of the 1st Century
A.D.,
surpassed all expecta…
First Solo Exhibition by Yoram Wolberge at Benrimon Contemporary
NEW YORK, NY.- Benrimon Contemporary presents the first solo exhibition of San Francisco based artist, Yoram Wolberger. The show consists of works from his Cowboys & Indians series, including two life size cowboy sculptures, one life size Indian sculpt…
Roman Imperial Marble Torso of an Emperor Sells for $7.4 million at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK, NY.- In a packed salesroom at Sotheby’s this afternoon, a Marble Torso of an Emperor (probably Augustus, Tiberius or Claudius), Roman Imperial, Julio Claudian, 1st Half of the 1st Century A.D., surpassed all expectations, selling for a r…
Frick Announces Intention to Enclose Portico to Create Gallery for Sculpture and Decorative Arts
NEW YORK, NY.- Visitors at The Frick Collection find it difficult to believe that the Garden Court—a signature gallery considered by many to be the heart of the former mansion—was never enjoyed by its original resident, industrialist Henry Cl…
Eli Klein Fine Art presents Shen Shaomin ~ An Unconventional NYC Solo
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Fine Art presents Shen
Shaomin’s first solo exhibition in New York. A world renowned conceptual artist,
Shen Shaomin pushes unconventional materials to new limits. His art comments on
contemporary issues from polit…
DC Moore Gallery Celebrates Charles Burchfield’s Fifty Years as a Painter
NEW YORK, NY.-
Rarely does the opportunity arise to see a wide range of
work by
Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), one of the most inventive artists
of the
twentieth century. This summer, viewers will be able to see his
…
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
…
Work by Marguerite and William Zorach at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
NEW
YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents its first solo
exhibition featuring the work of Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) and
William
Zorach (1887-1966). On view through August 13, this exhibition consists
of
a selection…
The Emergence of Gay Liberation Explored in Exhibition at The New York Public Library
NEW YORK, NY.- June 28, 2009 will mark the 40th
anniversary of the historic Stonewall Riots that occurred in Greenwich Village,
New York. Many cite the riots as the birth of the Gay Rights Movement in the
United States. From June 1969 until June…