HONG KONG.- Further to the success of Seoul Auction’s Hong Kong sale in October 2010 – in which Marc Chagall’s Bestiaire et Musique set a record as the most expensive painting by a Western Modern artist ever sold in Asia – Seoul Auc…
Retrospective of the Works of One of the Most Important Photographers of Our Time
VIENNA.- René Burri was born in Zurich in 1933. From 1959, as a member of Magnum Photos, he travelled to the scenes of innumerable world events. “The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experime…
MoMA Announces Exhibition of Picasso’s Iconic Guitar Sculptures From 1912-1914
NEW YORK, NY.- Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914 will focus on Pablo Picasso’s cardboard and sheet-metal Guitar sculptures, and the incandescent period of material and structural innovation these sculptures bracket in the artist’s long career….
Richard Avedon’s Most Prized Photographs for Sale Saturday at Christie’s in Paris
PARIS AP.- A model in a silk Dior gown, posing with elephants. The psychedelically colored faces of the Beatles. A soot-covered coal miner. Christie’s in Paris will auction some of Richard Avedon’s most prized photographs Saturday to raise money for t…
Retrospective of the Works of One of the Most Important Photographers of Our Time at Kunst Haus Wien
VIENNA.- René Burri was born in Zurich in 1933. From 1959, as a member of Magnum Photos, he travelled to the scenes of innumerable world events. “The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experime…
OCA Semester Plan – Autumn 2010
Two Public Lectures by the Art Historian T.J. Clark: OCA International Studio Resident November 2010 During his participation in OCA’s International Studio Programme, art historian and author T.J. Clark will present two public lectures on Pablo Picasso. The first lecture will address questions about modern art’s relation to the century in which Picasso lived and […]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: November Programs
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) New York City http://Guggenheim.org/education This November, an exciting schedule of programs will take place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, including the following:
Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints Sell Strong at Bonhams & Butterfields’ October Auction
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Old Master, Modern & Contemporary prints came to auction at Bonhams & Butterfields on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, bringing more than $1.9-million and setting multiple auction records during a simulcast sale between the auctioneer’…
Sotheby’s Presents Highlights from Its Autumn Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s autumn Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from …
On the Anniversary of the Birth of Pablo Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga Presents New Acquisitions
MALAGA.- MPM’s permanent collection provides visitors with an overview of eight decades of Pablo Picasso’s work, conveying the painstaking creative capacity of an artist who is essential to understanding Western art history, and thereby embod…