Sotheby's Purchases the Iconic and Once-Controversial Breuer Building
Sotheby's has acquired the renowned Breuer building from the Whitney Museum in a $100 million deal.
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Sotheby's has acquired the renowned Breuer building from the Whitney Museum in a $100 million deal.
Sotheby's has announced plans to acquire the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Breuer Building on the corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street and relocate
In Artforum’s January 1968 issue, artist Dan Graham wrote an appraisal of sculptor Claes Oldenburg’s many proposals for public monuments, an exhibition of which had been on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. “Rather than attempting to ‘withstand’ or ‘make their mark’ on Nature,” as Graham writes, Oldenburg’s public works “are temporal through their contingent interrelationship with a specific environment.” From Pop Tart Monument to Small Monument for London Street: Fallen Hat (for Adlai Stevenson), from his imagined Ellis Island Monument to the Moving Bat...