Last month, the art world mourned the loss of Marisa Merz, the only female artist associated with the Arte Povera movement. Merz, who died in her native Turin at 93, was known for her unconventional use of materials and processes.
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A previously unknown study by celebrated Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918), valued at $100,000 to $200,000, was discovered by an anonymous part-time art handler at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Queens.
This is the first UK survey to celebrate Maurer’s five-decade career, bringing together 35 works from her conceptual photographic series and experimental films to her colourful graphic works and striking geometric paintings.
The August 6 sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture achieved seven world auction records for artists including Joseph Raphael, Chester Beach, Barbara Beretich, Charles Griffin Farr, Raimondo Puccinelli, Po-Pin Lin, and Francis Sinnett.
Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist, may have done more than anyone to bring Art Nouveau into popular culture through his posters of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt. His work and more are on display at the Poster House, a new museum that opened in Manhattan, New York, earlier this year.
Boasting the world’s largest public collection of works by Henri Matisse, the Baltimore Museum of Art plans to capitalize on that distinction by creating a global center dedicated to the study of the French Master and his legacy.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce a major gift of 46 artworks from Los Angeles-based collector, scholar, and advocate Gordon W. Bailey.
Award-winning photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to document the world’s dwindling wildlife population.
Multiple records for artists and for individual prints were set in Heritage Auctions’ Urban Art Auction, which realized a total of $2,737,160 in Chicago.
The new Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies will allow the Institute to preserve and honor the art of Bayer, who designed the Institute’s historic campus and whose prolific work represents the fullest expression of the Bauhaus movement in America.
