With works by Chinese contemporary artists fetching millions of dollars at auction and the number of Asian collectors multiplying, it was only a matter of time before a major Manhattan art gallery announced plans to put down roots in Beijing.
The first to do so is PaceWildenstein, which this summer will open Pace Beijing, a 22,000-square-foot [...]
In the art world, geography is destiny. The words “10th Street” are synonymous with gestural abstraction, just as the East Village is shorthand for ’80s neo-Expressionism. Eventually rents rise, neighborhoods are rezoned, artists migrate — and as they do, new styles and movements take shape.
The Grey Art Gallery at New York University underscored this point [...]
George Lois in his New York City apartment.
George Lois, one of the most influential admen of his generation, is known for his early Xerox commercials showing a chimpanzee deftly operating a photocopier, the “Think small” ads for Volkswagen and the “I want my MTV” campaign. He also dreamed up Lean Cuisine and the ‘I want [...]
Despite going out with Tracey Emin for five-and-a-half years, British artist Mat Collishaw is not as well known as his contemporaries from Goldsmiths, with whom he exhibited at the Freeze show curated by Damien Hirst that kick-started Britart two decades ago.
Having made his name with a close-up photograph of a bullet wound, he moved away [...]
Asa Ames, a little known American sculptor, worked mostly from life, carving and painting three-dimensional wood portraits of family and friends. When he died of consumption in 1851, at the age of 27, he left behind 12 or 13 sculptures, most made during the last four or five years of his short life. Eight of [...]
Before she married a Beatle, Linda McCartney was a professional photographer. During the 1960s, her celebrated shots of rock gods such as Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix (whom she famously photographed mid-yawn) helped to invent the genre of rock photography. She was the first female photographer to have work – a portrait of Eric Clapton [...]
With its breathtaking, panoramic views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline, the Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art may strike you as an excellent place to mount a seasonal outdoor sculpture show, which it does every year. In truth, it is an inhospitable site for sculpture, as demonstrated by the [...]