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A show at David Nolan recalls an era when the Madison Avenue galleries were more about art than money — and female dealers shaped the scene.

"The Andy Warhol Diaries" on Netflix begins with the shocking story of Valerie Solanas trying to kill the artist.

James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo's wrapping of L'Arc de Triomphe. Napoléon's monument to himself has been turned into a memento

The eclectic lives behind Alice Neels portraits A visitor studies Alice Neel’s 1964 portrait of the civil rights leader James Farmer in the exhibition “People Come First” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 29, 2021. Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times. by Erica Ackerberg (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- My introduction to painter Alice Neel was a screen print that hung on the living room wall of my grandparents’ home in Woodstock, New York — a provocative portrait of Neel’s pouting...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. If you’re looking for the opposite of social distancing – and who isn’t, these days? – then Alice Neel is there for you. There, that is, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has recently opened a full-scale survey of this greatest of 20th-century portraitists (‘Alice Neel: People Come First’; until 1 August). Go if you can, and revel in the sheer presence of so many unmasked faces, so many interesting humans – the encounter with each one un...

Mail art may be the perfect pandemic art form  Learn more about the history of the movement in a retrospective at Winter Parks CFAM One of several excellent exhibitions currently on display at Rollins Colleges Cornell Museum, Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art looks at the secret history of mail art, an anti-fine art movement in which artists, art enthusiasts and conceptual pranksters around the world used the postal service to collaborate and disseminate works f...

The auction offered an eclectic mix of work by the artists and those in their inner circle. February 18, 2021 Christo and Jeanne Claude at their 48 Howard Street studio in New York. Photo by Wolfgang Volz © The Estate of Christo V. Javacheff A sale of works from the collection of the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude was a resounding success at Sotheby’s Paris today. The “white-glove,” or completely sold out, live sale 28 of works—including blue-chip pieces by the artists’ frien...

Sotheby’s Christo Auction, Part 1, Nets $9.8 Million The 28 most valuable works he and Jeanne-Claude collected and created were offered in a live auction on Wednesday; a timed online sale of another 347 lots will end on Thursday. A 1964 Andy Warhol, “Jackie,” went for about $1.1 million at the auction.Credit...Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Christo and Jeanne-Claude Collection; via Sotheby’s By Scott Reyburn Feb. 17, ...