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Mail art may be the perfect pandemic art form  Learn more about the history of the movement in a retrospective at Winter Park's CFAM One of several excellent exhibitions currently on display at Rollins College's 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 far beyond the reach of the gallery or the academy. Pushing the Envelope is curated by Miriam Kienl...

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’ friends as well as their own preparatory works—took in a total of $9.8 million (€8 million), more tha...

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, 2021 The Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who died last May at 84, was famous for the spectacular ambi...