NEW YORK (REUTERS).- London has Paddington Bear but New York now has a giant yellow teddy bear, a great sculptural masterpiece that could sell for more than $9 million at auction in May, Christie’s said on Saturday. A 23-foot (7-meter) high, bronze ted…
A New Project by The Fourth Height Art Group at Pobeda Gallery in Moscow
MOSCOW.- POBEDA Gallery presents a new project by The Fourth Height art group – The Crown. The group consists of three Russian artists: Dina Kim, Katya Kameneva and Gala Smirnskaya. Since the nineties it is reckoned as a part of Moscow conceptuali…
A New Project by The Fourth Height Art Group at Pobeda Gallery in Moscow
MOSCOW.- POBEDA Gallery presents a new project by The Fourth Height art group – The Crown. The group consists of three Russian artists: Dina Kim, Katya Kameneva and Gala Smirnskaya. Since the nineties it is reckoned as a part of Moscow conceptuali…
Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties at the Norton Simon Museum
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties, an exhibition of seventeen large-scale paintings created in the 1960s by artists such as Larry Bell, Thomas Downing, Helen Frankenthaler, Takeshi Kawashi…
Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties at the Norton Simon Museum
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties, an exhibition of seventeen large-scale paintings created in the 1960s by artists such as Larry Bell, Thomas Downing, Helen Frankenthaler, Takeshi Kawashi…
Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
HAMBURG.- The exhibition presents in excess of 180 works by approximately 90 internationally renowned artists and thus offers a fresh and comprehensive overview over protest and opposition movements in the course of the past 60 years. At the same time …
Leading British Art Collector Charles Saatchi’s Ex-Wife Sells Off Art at Christie’s
LONDON (REUTERS).- Kay Saatchi, ex-wife of leading British art patron Charles, is selling off part of her own collection at a Christie’s auction in June and expects to raise up to 3.4 million pounds ($5.4 million). The highlight of the sale, which will…
Leading British Art Collector Charles Saatchi’s Ex-Wife Sells Off Art at Christie’s
LONDON (REUTERS).- Kay Saatchi, ex-wife of leading British art patron Charles, is selling off part of her own collection at a Christie’s auction in June and expects to raise up to 3.4 million pounds ($5.4 million). The highlight of the sale, which will…
First Museum Exhibition in 50 Years Devoted to Ida Kar at the National Portrait Gallery
B>LONDON.- A new exhibition of portraits by the twentieth-century pioneering photographer Ida Kar opened at the National Portrait Gallery today, Thursday 10 March. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-74 highlights the crucial role played by this key w…
Highlights from Sotheby’s Mid-Season Contemporary Art Auction Go On View in New York
NEW YORK.- On 9 March 2011 Sotheby’s mid-season Contemporary Art Auction will include carefully selected works by artists from the Post-War period through the present day. All of the works go on view this weekend at Sotheby’s York Avenue head…