In 1958, Robert Rauschenberg began a difficult series of illustrations of Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century poem Inferno. The thirty-four mixed-media images foreground the process of their construction as much as their literary subjects.
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Few colors are as politically charged as pink. Though today it is considered feminine throughout much of the world, up until around the mid-twentieth century, Westerners viewed the color as either genderless or masculine.
Anyone familiar with the Midas touch of Philip F. Anschutz won’t be surprised that the magnate has amassed one of the most impressive and important private Western art collections in the world.
The exhibition highlights the popularity of the cartes de visite in American society of the early 1860s and how becoming a carte de visite meant being famous, or at least, worthy of collection. Women were no exception to this trend.
Carrying the landmark estimate of $20/30 million, the sale marks the highest valued estimate for an NFT or digital art ever offered at auction, and follows Sotheby’s record-breaking sale of CryptoPunk #7523 for $11.8 million in June 2021.
Primarily drawn from the LACMA's collection, the exhibition brings together around 140 works spanning roughly 200 years. Subjects include a wide range—from iconic change-makers to ordinary people rendered extraordinary through art.
After half a century, the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais has been reunited with a first-century Bacchus statue. First unearthed by archeologists in 1894 at the Roman Vertillum site, the bronze figure has long been considered a French treasure.
The latest issue of Sekka Magazine is dedicated to Creative Giants from Gulf Arab states. Here are five stories from that issue.
Looking Up - D’Arcy Simpson Art Works is pleased to feature new work by Jeremy Bullis and Michael Larry Simpson in Looking Up, opening on Saturday, February 12th, 2022. The large scale color field paintings by Simpson shown alongside Bullis’ ethereal kinetic mobiles fashions an immersive atmosphere of movement filling this intimate gallery with music for the eyes. In this exhibition, each artist explores ideas of movement, balance, tension and harmony within their own practices of composition and construction.
There have been many famous, artistic love affairs and partnerships over the years. These relationships run the gamut from inspirational muses to creative partners to lovers and friends.
