Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2017) –Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell examines the work and enduring legacy of Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell (Americans, b. 1929 and 1935). Inspired by the Cleveland Museum of Art's recent acquisition of Heritage, a 1973 painting by Wadsworth Jarrell, the exhibition features 18 works from the mid-1960s to the present in a dazzling array of colorful paintings, sculptures and textiles.
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New York—Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill Gallery are honored to announce their representation of The Richard Avedon Foundation with an exhibition of Richard Avedon’s photographs and extensive archival materials drawn from Nothing Personal, Avedon’s 1964 collaboration with James Baldwin.
Co-organized by four institutions, Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist<\i> will focus on the artist’s figure paintings and portraits through approximately 50 to 60 paintings from both public institutions and private collections.
A collector who traded a pair of "old Texas spurs and a few dollars" for a brown basket, which sat on his TV stand for 25 years, is $55,000 richer.
A fuse was lit in the 1953 art world when Robert Rauschenberg convinced artist Willem de Kooning to allow him to erase one of his drawings; fellow artist Jasper Johns executed the inscription within the frame: “ERASED DE KOONING DRAWING ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG 1953.”
The High Museum of Art is organizing the first museum survey in the United States to explore the career of American artist Al Taylor (1948-1999).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today an exceptional gift of more than $80 million from Trustee Florence Irving and her late husband, Herbert Irving.
This weekend marks the premier of a new large art fair in Düsseldorf, Germany. Open November 16th - 19th and in its first year, Art Düsseldorf seeks to establish itself as “a new and innovative platform for collectors, gallerists and curators.” Over 75 galleries will have spaces in a recently converted former factory complex called Areal Böhler. Sixty percent of the galleries present are German, and the fair designated specific spaces for young galleries.
French artist Vincent Dubourg opened his first U.S. show, Vortex, at Carpenters Gallery Workshop at 693 Fifth Avenue in New York on November 2nd. For the past 15 years, Dubourg has focused on fusing metal and wood furniture that appears to fly from its tethers by taking classical furnishings and infusing them with new life and meaning.
Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale broke several records last night. Though there were many notable sales, including Andy Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers, which sold for $60,875,000, much attention was focused on Leonardo da Vinci’s, Salvator Mundi. Despite some doubts about the authenticity of the painting, the recently rediscovered work sold for $450,312,500, breaking the world auction record for any work sold at auction.
