“I’M in Hollywood,” Salvador Dalí wrote in a postcard to André Breton in 1937, “where I’ve made contact with the three American surrealists, Harpo Marx, Disney and Cecil B. DeMille.”
“One always more or less believes to have ‘dreamed’ it when one recalls Claudette Colbert bathing in a pool filled with asses’ milk at the beginning [...]

A major new work of temporary public art by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson, The New York City Waterfalls, will be on display in New York City from June 26 to October 13, 2008. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the project consists of four monumental, man-made waterfalls installed for three months at four sites [...]

Christie’s in London sold Claude Monet’s “‘Le bassin aux nympheas” for £40,921,250 / $80,451,178 / €51,683,539
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place this evening (24 June 2008) and realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 - the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was [...]

Edward Steichen is one of the key figures in the history of photography. Beginning as a leading exponent of the 19th-century romantic movement called Pictorialism, Steichen metamorphosed rapidly into one of the leading lights of modernism. For more than half a century he occupied centre stage as the most famous living photographer, the medium’s first [...]

artdaily Forty-six powerful works by internationally acclaimed sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in the artist’s first retrospective in the United States in more than a decade. Martin Puryear includes sculptures dating from 1976 to the present, including one monumental work created especially for the [...]

HIS 1954 Picasso became the most expensive painting sold in Australia when it went under the hammer last night for $6.9 million.
The oil on canvas, named Sylvette, depicts a 19-year-old woman in bright colours and semi-abstract, geometric forms. Sylvette was painted by Picasso when he was in his 80s and living on the Cote d’Azur [...]

Artdaily The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is opening the exhibition Miró: Earth. It offers a totally innovative presentation of the work of Joan Miró that focuses on a recurrent concept in the artist’s work: the earth. For the first time this theme will be the subject of a major monographic exhibition covering Miró’s entire career from 1918, [...]