Maurice Agis in his giant inflatable work of art work Dreamspace. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA An elderly artist whose huge inflatable “dream machine” broke loose from home-made moorings at a summer fair, killing two women trapped inside, was convicted of breaching health and safety rules yesterday.
The Las Vegas Art Museum is closing its doors. The museum will close Feb. 28. Staff and board members say the museum will remain an entity and keep its name so that it can possibly reemerge when the economy improves. Members and docents were notified this afternoon.
From February 17 through May 31 2009, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present the most important retrospective to date of the work of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (b. Tokyo, 1962), one of the most celebrated contemporary artists to have emerged from Asia in the last century. Japanese artist Takashi Murakami exhibits until March 31 [...]
The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767) in the Wallace Collection, London. Fragonard’s melting garden vista through which a woman swings to a perfumed fop’s delight may well be the most flirtatious painting of all time.
Damien Hirst has defied the slump in U.K. consumer spending by opening a second shop in London. Other Criteria, the U.K. artist’s publishing and merchandising company, started the store this week at 14 Hinde Street in the Marylebone district. It sells works including some by Hirst himself ranging from his keyrings at 3.50 pounds ($5) [...]
The National Gallery confirmed it had purchased “Bagpipe Player in Profile” (1624) by Hendrick ter Brugghen, which sold for $10.2 million at auction. (Sotheby’s) The National Gallery of Art’s acquisition of Bagpipe Player in Profile (1624) by Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen, made possible with substantial support of Gallery donors Greg and Candy Fazakerley, is [...]
The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place at Christie’s this evening and realized $91,210,543. The top price of the evening was paid for Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which sold at this evening sale for $16,164,918. At this evening’s auction, [...]
