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Alberto Giacometti Sitting with his sculptures, via Gagosian Gallery, New York (left); with Homme Assis by Alberto Giacometti,1950, via Christie’s (right) | Image source: thecollector.com
How Giacometti’s Existentialist Figures Became The Art World’s Obsessions
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. – Alberto Giacometti One of the most admired and famed Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti takes the top three spots on the list of the highest-priced sculptures in art market history. L’Homme au doigt (1947) was sold for $141.3 million…
David Hockney photographed at his Los Angeles home with a book open to his 2015 work Garden with Blue Terrace. Photo: Courtesy of Matthias Vriens-McGrath | Image source: architecturaldigest.com
David Hockney’s Living Colors
On November 15, 2019, in a crowded salesroom at Christie’s Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York, famous David Hockney’s 1972 painting ‘Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)’ was sold for a staggering sum of $90.3 million after just nine minutes of bidding. This turned out to be the most expensive work by a…
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Yayoi Kusama sitting in front of her famous artwork in Japan. | Image source: thecollector.com
Women Dominating In Contemporary Art Today
The artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. – Marina Abramović From Rosa Bonheur and Mary Cassatt to Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe — great women artists in art history have not been nearly as widely represented as their male colleagues. But…
Tahmineh Monzavi. All About Me; Nicknamed 'Queen Maker' 5. Photography. 2015. Edition of 30 | Image source: lensculture.com, Image credit © Tahmineh Monzavi
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Rich and Complex Power and Beauty: Women of the Arab World“I am amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really hurts me,” says Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah. Queen Rania is one of the most influential women in the Middle East and the patron of I AM, an East-West peace-building exhibition which includes the works of…
"Soir Bleu" painting by Edward Hopper (1914) | Image source: icanvas.com
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Late Bloomer Artists We LoveIt wasn’t until the death of his wife that Monet began to really paint; he was in his 40s. American realism artist, Edward Hopper, wouldn’t sell a painting until his 30s but wouldn’t gain notoriety for his unique style until a decade later. After years of being rejected by Paris Salon and exhibiting a few…
The Metropolitan Museum and the new David Koch Plaza / Image source: nycgo.com
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The Met’s New Admission Policy – Should Museums Be Free for All?A trip to New York just doesn’t seem right without visiting the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Met" has been one of New York City’s most visited tourist attraction for both international and domestic audiences for over a hundred years. In 2016, it hit its record high with 7.06 million visitors, 37% of which…
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Where in the Art World for #MeToo MovementIt was inevitable. The entertainment business and politics have always found their way into the art realm. So when #MeToo found its way in both, it was only a matter of time before the art world paid attention and started to take action as well. Although Tarana Burke first used the phrase in 2006 to…
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William Wegman and WeimaranersFrom Sesame Street to Saturday Night Live to the Smithsonian – American artist, William Wegman’s has an impressive and eclectic resume. As a conceptualist, an early pioneer of video art, painter, and photographer, Wegman quickly made a name for himself after he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1965 with his work being…
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How to Value “Conceptual Art” – Conceptual Art Series: Part. 2In Part 1 of our Conceptual Art Series, we talked about how Marcel Duchamp changed the course of art history with the debut of his notorious 1917 Fountain, and how conceptual art has found a place for itself in the mainstream art world. But despite the 100 years that have passed since Duchamp took a…