The old masters' rocky performance at Christie's on Wednesday was repeated yesterday with a halfhearted showing at Sotheby's. Nearly half the lots, 141 of 350, failed to sell. The highest-priced offerings did well, helping to bring in a decent $62.1 million total and setting auction records for several artists, including Fra Bartolommeo, Simone Martini and Charles-Antoine Coypel. Read More
Arlene Shechet
Ai Weiwei
Haim Steinbach
Moyra Davey
AMONG THE MOST significant artworks that have come into my life have been a chair, a trash can, a chi… Read More
In ceramics, Arlene Shechet has found the medium that best accommodates her career-long penchant for t… Read More
One of the most edifying— and disorienting—of the “Pacific Standard Time” exhibitions revisits the art… Read More
Currently on view in the group show "Redux" at New York's Cristin Tierney Gallery (through Feb. 4) are two works by Joe Fig, both related to his 200
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Jennie C. Jones's exhibition "Absorb/Diffuse" was disconcerting in its quiet and stark emptiness. A series titled "Acoustic Paintings" (all 201...
Dec 2011 In her lively and formally diverse works, the German painter Charline von Heyl eschews ironic attitude while maintaining a cool engagement with the panoply of visual culture.
Jan 1997 The late Francis Bacon, the subject of a retrospective now on view in Germany, was vehement in his disdain for abstraction and illustration. And yet, the author suggests, these techniques were integral to his presentation of violent imagery.
