Bush’s Masterpiece
Jan 15, 2014
GOP-uernica
Dec 24, 2012
75 Years Later, the Lessons of Guernica
Jul 19, 2012 Seventy-five years ago, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed into rubble. The brutal act propelled one of the world's greatest artists into a three-week painting frenzy.
Soup Having Sex With Soup
Jun 10, 2012 "If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes," Picasso said, naming the distinct advantage that artists have always had over pundits and polemicists when it came to perceiving the world as it is; pundits and polemicists being much more likely to insist that the world is whatever a person wants it to be."If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes," Picasso said, naming the distinct advantage that artists have always had over pundits and polemicists.
Art as Journalism
Feb 21, 2012
Haute Love, High Fashion
May 14, 2011 Bergé admits that his own nature was controlling, and he makes no apology for it. Indeed, he makes no apology for anything in his life. And therein lies something of a mystery. We are not allowed to imagine what Saint Laurent saw in this man—except an enabler.I think Saint Laurent had something like an artist’s spirit, but he was obliged to operate in a world that is almost the definition of ephemera.
Picasso Painting Bags $51.2 Million at Auction
Jun 24, 2010 Pablo Picasso's "Portrait d'Angel Fernandez de Soto" sold for a staggering 347 million pounds -- that's $512 million for those of us in the dollar zone -- at a Christie's auction in London on Wednesday (continued).
Five Famous Paintings Swiped in Paris Museum Heist
May 20, 2010 Somehow, a lone art bandit -- or a band of bandits -- managed to pull off an impressive five-finger-discount maneuver at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris on Wednesday night, making off with five masterpieces worth a grand total of close to 100 million euros. Sacré bleu!
Patching Up Picasso’s ‘Actor’
Jan 26, 2010 A visitor at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art made her mark, unexpectedly, on Pablo Picasso's turn-of-the-last-century painting "The Actor" by accidentally falling into it Friday and adding a 6-inch rip not intended by the artist to the lower right corner of the canvas. Big oops!
Art Market Gets a Boost from Sotheby’s, Warhol
Nov 13, 2009 Sotheby's enjoyed a windfall Wednesday when the auction house's New York HQ nearly doubled its estimated high of $67.9 million for its contemporary art bid-fest, in which Andy Warhol's works figured prominently among the biggest-selling successes of the evening.
