Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" was done in 1963.
NEW YORK — The sales of postwar and contemporary art that took in $388.5 million at Christie’s and $266.6 million at Sotheby’s this week conclusively proved that the disconnect of the art market from the broader economy is now radical.
On Thursday, May 17, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Stremmel Gallery will host an opening reception for Open Space, an exhibition of new work by five contemporary landscape painters ranging from Nevada to Montana. This eclectic group of artists represents a dynamic and diverse approach to the tradition of American landscape paining. Open Space will run until June 16.
The work, a pastel on board, is one of four versions created by Edvard Munch; the other three are in museums in Norway. The buyer bid over the telephone.
It took 12 nail-biting minutes and five eager bidders for Edvard Munch’s famed 1895 pastel of “The Scream” to sell for $119.9 million, becoming the world’s most expensive work of art ever to sell at auction.
Next week’s sale of a pastel version of Edvard Munch’s truly iconic work “The Scream” — the only one of the four Munch did to survive in private hands — at Sotheby’s in New York marks what will likely be one of the most important auction moments of the decade.
Charles M. Russell, 'Wild Man's Meat' (1899).
Thanks largely to the urging of his humorist friend Will Rogers, Amon Carter (1879-1955), a Fort Worth newspaper publisher and industrialist, began collecting American art during the 1930s.
The death of kitsch painter Thomas Kinkade, whose nauseating fantasies are said to hang in one out of every 20 homes in America, reminds us that America leads the world in cultural crap and that, frightfully, that same crap from American Idol to the Saw movies to gangbang porn is not only the one commercial export we have left, it has polluted civilization from Murmansk to Montevideo.
Yesterday evening, newsman and notorious art skeptic Morley Safer revisited one of the most controversial reports of his career on CBS’s “60 Minutes”: his infamous 1993 takedown of the contemporary art world, entitled “Yes, But Is It Art?”
A visitor to the Denver Art Museum in 2000 checks out 'The Buffalo Dancer' by Gerald Cassidy at the 'Painters of the American West' exhibition drawn from The Anschutz Collection.
The Anschutz Collection, one of the country’s most-respected collections of Western paintings, will open its doors to the public full-time later this year, adding another attraction to Denver’s growing portfolio of small, quirky art museums.
