A man looks at Joan Miró’s “Jeune fille s’evadant”, 1967 at Bancaja Foundation. The Bancaja Cultural Center presents Joan Miró. Evoking the Female Image, on view through June 21, 2009. The exhibition was organized together with the Joan and Pilar Miro Foundation. Women as a theme run through all Miró’s work. It was an early [...]
Marcel Duchamp’s proclamation “For Arp, art is Arp” serves as the title for one of the most comprehensive retrospectives on Hans Arp ever undertaken. The Arp Museum Bahnof Rolandseck is showing the exhibition “Art is Arp” with over 100 drawings, collages, sculptures, and reliefs as well as ca. 80 texts, photographs, and documents through June [...]
Works of art that belonged to Gianni Versace sold at a London auction on Thursday for almost three times the presale estimate, despite the fact that a star attraction had been pulled on suspicions its was stolen. In 12 hours of heated bidding, the 545-lot sale of the treasures from the late fashion designer’s 19th-century [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.