Salvador Dali, “Le Jungle Humaine” (1977)
An anonymous donor has given several works by Spanish artist Salvador Dali to the Salvation Army in Houston, ABC news reported.
The Spanish artist’s works were exhibited at a Salvation Army thrift store along with $1 items of used clothing and other goods donated by people.
The Dali works range from etchings [...]
“Marcel, Marcel, I love you like Hell, Marcel.” So ran a mash note written to Marcel Duchamp in 1923 by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, one of the scores of women, and many men, for whom Duchamp was a personal fixation, erotic, aesthetic or otherwise.
For many contemporary art lovers he is a fixation still, the [...]
Jacob Epstein, Torso in Metal from the ‘The Rock Drill’, 1913-14. Bronze, 70.5 x 58.4 x 44.5 cm. Tate, London.
This October the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works celebrating the radical change that transformed British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over a period of 10 years (1905-1915), three [...]
Not many big-name movie directors deserve to be called artists. Among those who do, few take the label as seriously as David Lynch.
The director of “Mulholland Dr.” and “Blue Velvet” has avidly pursued painting, photography and sculpture in between his idiosyncratic film projects. Starting Sept. 12, the master of weirdness will exhibit some of his [...]
Margaret Bourke-White’s 1930 photograph of the Statue of Liberty.
Last winter, when the art economy was looking especially dark, a group of Manhattan photography dealers got together and decided to put on a spirit-lifting show: “New York Photographs,” a summertime tribute to the greatest city on earth. Thirteen galleries agreed to mount exhibitions — some dedicated [...]
Artist Maurice Agis’s inflatable artwork Dreamspace. Two women died when it broke free from moorings at Chester-le-Street, County Durham, in July 2006.
The creator of an inflatable artwork that blew away, killing two women, won an appeal today against the £10,000 fine imposed on him for breaching health and safety regulations.
Artist Maurice Agis, 77, who was [...]