Gerhard Richter
NEW YORK — Fueled by a handful of outstanding offerings, the contemporary art market maintained its upwardly momentum on Tuesday at Sotheby’s, racking up $293,587,000. Impressively, 44 of the 53 lots that sold hurdled the million dollar mark. Of those,...
When will Facebook's running battle with art end?Art fans will be familiar with the steady drip of stories about the social media giant taking works offline for obscenity. It's become such a common story that we decided to investigate the questions raised....
In a terrain well explored—that is, the craze for collaborations between fashion and art—herewith we present five wishful what-ifs. Consider them dream-schemes along the lines of Yayoi Kusama's dotty satchels at Louis Vuitton, LeRoy Grannis' low-res surf...
The starting point of Lela Rose’s Pre-Fall 2012 collection was the work of Clyfford Still. In the lookbook, models stand before a screen daubed with swathes of vibrant colors, a motif echoed ever so subtly in the collection’s vivid separates and cocktail...
The blockbuster sale Friday evening at Sotheby’s London of Gerhard Richter’s magisterial “Abstraktes Bild (809-4)” from the collection of rocker Eric Clapton set a record for a painting by a living artist, bringing in a staggering £21...
– Eric Clapton's Richter Heads to Sotheby's: Sotheby's October 12 contemporary art evening sale in London will have a particularly high-profile consignor: Eric Clapton. The former Cream musician is selling Gerhard Richter's...
Our most-talked-about stories in Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, July 30-August 3, 2012:ART— Facebook was accused of censorship when it removed a nude painting by Gerhard Richter from the Pompidou...
PARIS — The French blog “Les Notes de Véculture” sounded the alarm recently when Facebook removed an image of Gerhard Richter’s “Ema” from the Pompidou Center’s Facebook page. The museum’s Richter retrospective is running from June 6 through September 24 and...
SALE: Contemporary Evening SalesLOCATION: Sotheby's and Christie's LondonDATE: June 26, 6pm (Sotheby's), and June 27, 7pm (Christie's)ABOUT: After the Impressionist and modern auctions — the results of which are still to be determined — wrap up in London this...
Our most-talked-about stories in Art, Design & Fashion, and Performing Arts, June 4-8, 2012:VISUAL ARTS— Kyle Chayka reviewed Postmasters gallery’s “Richteriana,” a critical exhibition that deconstructs the imminent canonization of...
