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Michael Werner Gallery opens an exhibition of over 60 works by Paul Cadmus

Michael Werner Gallery opens an exhibition of over 60 works by Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus, Study for Male Nude #NM5, ca. 1965. Graphite, crayon on paper, 10 1/2 x 14 inches, 26.5 x 35.5 cm. © The Estate of the artist. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Organized in collaboration with Graham Steele, Michael Werner Gallery is presenting Paul Cadmus: Pleasant and Unpleasant at their East Hampton gallery. With over 60 works on view created over the span of 60 years, the exhibition presents a timely exploration of a career devoted to a balance between traditional techniques of representation and a radical assault on the heteronormativity of the pre-War New York society. ....

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The world's most expensive sculptures at auction

The world s most expensive sculptures at auction
CNN
1/7/2021
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Chariot (1950) by Alberto Giacometti
Humankind has had artistic impulses dating back to at least the Paleolithic era, when the earliest known cave paintings and stone figurines were created. And for untold years, humans have collected these works of art. Christie s and Sotheby s, the auction house duopoly, have brought buyers and sellers together for centuries, with buyers competing in adrenaline-pumping bidding wars.
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Rabbit (1986) by Jeff Koons
While the art market has experienced ups and downs along with the wider economy, it has seen giddy highs in recent decades, with some of the major auctions setting records for various artists in a single night. The most expensive artwork ever sold at auction was Leonardo da Vinci s painting of Christ, Salvator Mundi, which hammered down at an unbelievable $450.3 million in 2017 a ....

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The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Andy Warhol

The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Andy Warhol
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By William J. Wright/Dec. 29, 2020 9:38 am EDT
Controversial and enigmatic, Andy Warhol was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Arguably, there is no other artist who so embraced and reflected the zeitgeist of the modern era. Beginning his career as a commercial artist, Warhol instinctively and consciously blurred the lines between art and commerce as well as good taste and bad.
Transfiguring product logos and celebrity images into works that both commented on the banality of consumer culture and celebrated its uniquely American qualities, Andy Warhol, with his famous, screen-printed soup cans and garish movie star portraits, redefined fine art for a generation. Through his Factory studio, he even changed the artist s role in creation, employing assistants to manufacture his works on a virtual assembly line. ....

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