Paris, 1929: An avant-garde hothouse rife with artistic conflict and friendly rivalry, fueled in the wake of a tragic world war. Would painting survive the new experiments with photography, film and collage? Would politics replace art?
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Seventy years ago, the Communist leader Mao Zedong officially founded the People’s Republic of China. It was October 1st, 1949, and the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson had left China just a few days before after being in the country for ten months.
Already known as a platform for discovery, SCOPE prides itself on exhibiting a wide range of contemporary artists. But this year, for the 19th edition of SCOPE Miami Beach opening December 3rd, the fair is not only highlighting innovation within the artistic community, but is also changing the entire art fair model with its new OASIS lounge.
More than a decade in the making, three years under construction, and $24 million later, the newly reborn Asheville Art Museum opened its doors last week, welcoming visitors into what feels like an entirely new building.
Pittsburgh, PA—Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) is excited to present a new exhibition exploring the rich tradition of still life painting in A Delight for the Senses: The Still Life. Once considered the lowliest genre of painting, the still life has long been overshadowed in the history of art; in this exhibition, visitors will encounter examples from nearly 250 years of the tradition, from the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish painting to Ameri
The result of the 80 home searches was the arrest of 23 individuals and the seizure of around 10,000 precious cultural items.
Disrupted space, disjointed landscapes, and pixelated environments inform Darryl Westly’s unique painting style as he examines culture and ethnicity as seen through our hand-held screens.
Before the Shot, an iconic painting by Norman Rockwell, was one of the top lots at Phillips New York’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on November 14. Estimated at $2,500,000 - 4,500,000, the work sold for $4,700,000. This is the first time Before the Shot has been sold publicly. The auction overall realized $108 million, a 22 percent increase from the previous year.
For its Comic Strips sale, Artcurial will be auctioning, for the first time, a collection of original drawings from the adventures of Caroline. These 22 illustrations, estimated between €3,000 and 6,000 have come directly from the illustrator Pierre Probst’s family.
Within each sculpture’s apparent beauty, a laborious process, emotional and psychic efforts illustrates Caroline Wayne’s lifelong efforts to reshape and help process a complicated and traumatic past. She aims to bring awareness to the suffering a body can accumulate over time through onerous mark-making.
