December 2018 Art News

Alex Da Corte creates vibrant and immersive large-scale installations that include wall-based works, sculptures, and videos. Colorful and surreal, his work combines personal narrative, art-historical references, pop-culture characters, and the glossy aesthetics of commercial advertising to reveal the humor, absurdity, and psychological complexity of the images and stories that pervade our culture.
Leading Heritage Auctions’ December 7 Fine European Art Auction is Auguste Rodin’s monumental Éternel printemps (est. $400,000-$600,000). Depicting two lovers in a passionate embrace, this magnificent bronze is a star within a constellation of masterworks from the likes of William Adolphe Bouguereau, Gerald Brockhurst, and Louis Valtat.
Invader has been in Los Angeles before, notably in 2011 when the anonymous French street artist was arrested while “invading” a site with his mosaic-tile figures based on the popular 1980s video game, Space Invaders. With works on street corners and walls in roughly 30 countries around the world, Invader could not be contained in a single gallery, until now. 
Explore Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring" up close, and see how it's different (and not) from a high-res 3D print of the painting. We visit the Mauritshuis in The Hague and learn what happens when conservation scientists study the painting with today's most advanced technology.