Charles “Teenie” Harris worked around the clock. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, as a freelancer at nightclubs, at his portrait studio, as an artist, he was seemingly everywhere. CMOA’s Teenie Harris Archive contains nearly 80,000 examples of Harris’s tireless practice. Teenie Harris Photographs: Around The Clock collects 25 images that reveal how one individual managed to document the experiences of an entire community.
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Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, provides an introduction to the current exhibition, 'Canova's George Washington,' on view at The Frick Collection from May 23, 2018 to September 23, 2018.
On July 4th Sotheby’s London will offer a rare treasure at auction. “The Bust of Peace” (1814), a newly recovered marble bust by Italian Neoclassical master Antonio Canova (1757-1822) will make its debut after nearly 200 years of obscurity.
"How does a foreigner define America?": Alyce Englund on Charles-Honoré Lannuier's pier table
For MetCollects, assistant curator of American decorative arts Alyce Englund discusses the recently acquired pier table by Charles-Honoré Lannuier
Fernando Botero Seated Man, 2000 sold for $275,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Modern & Contemporary Art auction in Beverly Hills to a final total of $4,012,587.50. The auction boasted 97 percent sold by value, and 90 percent of the lots.
In a new exhibition and accompanying book, Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez, offers a retrospective that covers the dual histories of Los Angeles. George Rodriguez, who has been capturing quintessential American images since taking a photography class to fulfill a high school elective requirement in 1954, has been documenting LA life from the gritty streets to the glitz of Hollywood for over four decades.
This film takes you inside our new exhibition, Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin In Reverse, at the 2018 Architecture Biennale in Venice – the third consecutive year of our collaboration with La Biennale.
The late Willem Van Dedem was one of the 20th century’s greatest collectors.
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Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris discuss Berthe Morisot's "Hunting Butterflies" (1874) at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
New York - The May 22 sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples achieved US$1,227,500 and the top lot of the sale was Andy Warhol's Rebel Without a Cause, which realized $125,000. World auction records were achieved for Maurits Cornelis Escher's Relativity and Sky and Water I, as well as Wayne Thiebaud's Country City, 1988.
