Jun 19, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
Gego, a Jewish sculpture artist who fled Nazi Germany and reinvented herself in Venezuela, is being celebrated at the LGDR Gallery in New York this month. Gertrude Goldschmidt, known in art circles simply as Gego, would be 111 this year. She and her family fled Nazi...
May 15, 2023 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Two murals thought lost from the Empire State Building have been found on an antiques and design website. Winold Reiss, a German-born American artist from the 1920s and 30s, painted eight art deco murals in 1938 to decorate the Longchamps, a restaurant in the ground...
Apr 3, 2023 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
The David by Michelangelo is at the center of a school controversy, with Florida parents claiming the famous sculpture is pornography. Earlier this month, the board of Tallahassee Classical School pressured their principal, Hope Carrasquilla, to resign after three...
Feb 27, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
A Jeff Koons sculpture of a balloon dog was shattered at Art Wynwood in Miami by a careless visitor. The famous balloon animals by Jeff Koons look fragile, over-sized sculptures of balloon dogs and rabbits like a clown might make at a street fair. And they are...
Jan 23, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
Reinventing paintings is nothing new. Artists have been riffing off each other’s art since art was invented. It’s a way to use someone else’s ideas to add depth to your own, like quoting someone who inspires you. And no art should be immune from...
Dec 19, 2022 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
An unconscious woman in a Soho art gallery prompted police action, but she was actually only a sculpture. She looks quite real. The woman in a yellow hoodie and black leggings, her blonde hair wild, is bent over a crafting table, apparently unconscious with her face...
