The 78 sketches include images of Martin Luther King Jr., Disney characters, Elizabeth Taylor & Andy Warhol, among others. By Gil Kaufman UPDATE: This story was updated on Thursday (Aug. 1) with a ...
The lots in the Andy Warhol by Hand sale offer something a lot more interesting than the endlessly repeating parade of Technicolor icons: a rare glimpse into the world of the relatively unknown Andy ...
This past winter, Iggy Pop posed nude for a drawing class at the New York Academy of Art–organized by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by British artist Jeremy Deller. The Brooklyn Museum has now ...
As accidental adverts for art shows go, a giant pooch made of flowers is a crowd pleaser. Outside the Guggenheim Bilbao in northern Spain, Jeff Koons’ much-loved flower 1992 sculpture “Puppy,” shows ...
Forty works spanning four decades of Roy Lichtenstein’s career will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York next month, expected to fetch over $35 million (€30.8 million). A once-in-a-generation ...
Pop Art emerged at a pivotal moment when mass consumption and communication strategies were just beginning to take shape, capturing the “inevitable phenomenon” of postwar American pop culture and its ...
When British artist Arthur Hacker arrived in Hong Kong in December 1967, a few bombs were still going off as the pro-communist riots tapered off. The painter and illustrator, who had studied at the ...
For more than a quarter-century, a Claes Oldenburg sculpture stood as a side-street landmark in West Hollywood. An enormous stainless-steel knife blade, 6 feet tall and 12 feet long, sliced down from ...
Claes Oldenburg defied the rules of Abstract Expressionism, making sculptures and sewn creations from materials found on the streets of New York. Eventually, he crafted ordinary objects on a grand ...