Sep 10, 2021 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Love Is in the Bin” is for sale again, and this time it could net over $5.5 million dollars. Originally titled “Girl With Balloon,” the painting was a by-the-artist recreation of one of Banksy’s famous graffiti artworks, featuring exactly what it says in the...
Aug 25, 2021 | New York, News & Trending, Profiles
Chuck Close, one of the greats of the Modern American art scene, has passed away at 81. Up close, Close’s portraits distort and disappear like when you sit too close to a cathode ray television. They’re made of “pixels” in amorphous shapes,...
Jul 28, 2021 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Victor Langlois is 18, and in only 7 years has gone from a runaway youth to a millionaire, even before his art sold in auction at Christie’s for $2.16 million. Langlois, who goes by FEWOCiOUS online, sold five lots of art on Wednesday, July 21. Each lot included...
Jul 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending, Organizations
The “Women Who Dared” collection, assembled by Sandi Nicholson, is the largest private collection of women-created art, and you can see parts of it in any New York area hospital. Nicholson spent over thirty years traveling the world to collect art by women. Her...
Feb 24, 2021 | Art, Museums, New York
The wealth of any museum is almost always hung on its walls. The collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, for instance, is estimated to be worth somewhere between $100 and $400 billion dollars. (A very rough estimate – no museum would ever...
Jan 15, 2021 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art was able to reopen after several months of prudent closure during the spring and summer of 2020, they’ve done so with reduced capacity, limited hours, and reservation requirements that mean that not everyone who wishes to...
