Andy Warhol, The Last Supper © 2009 Andy Warhol Foundation for the visuals arts inc. / Adagp, Paris, 2009.Foundation for the visuals arts inc. / Adagp, Paris, 2009. In 1962, Andy Warhol painted the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and her rival Liz Taylor, reinterpreted the Mona Lisa and Elvis Presley. From 1967 until his death [...]
The names of famous works owned by Mr Cohen, America’s 36th richest man, emerged as he announced he was to lend 20 paintings and sculptures to Sotheby’s in New York for an exhibition in April. The works, by artists including Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso and Lisa Yuskavage, all depict female subjects and aren’t for [...]
Renaissance artist Caravaggio used an early form of photography to project images of his subjects onto a canvas using a noxious concoction of crushed fireflies and white lead. Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus The 16th century master used modern darkroom techniques to create his masterpieces, more than 200 years before the invention of the camera. Italian [...]
Dutch police showed on Saturday, eight high-value paintings of famous artists, agency ANP reported. These paintings have gone for more than 20 years ago and were discovered only this week. Pictures Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Willem van der Feld and David Teniers disappeared in 1987 from the gallery “Noortman” in the city of Maastricht. The [...]
Big names and new talent come together at the FORMAT09 international photography festival in Derby. Jonas Bendiksen at the FORMAT09 international photography festival in Derby Photo: Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos Two men mucking about on a hulk of spaceship detritus while a cloud of white butterflies swarms around them – not the kind of thing one [...]
Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective is the first major retrospective of the work of Martin Kippenberger (German, 1953–1997) to be mounted in the United States. One of the most significant and influential artists of our time, Kippenberger produced a complex and richly prolific body of work from the mid-1970s until his untimely death in 1997 [...]