$68.9 Million Modigliani Gets Auction Season Off to a Healthy Start

Classic images from art history, a doe-eyed female nude by Modigliani and a seminal Monet waterlily attracted bidders from around the world on Tuesday night at Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and modern art.

Lichtenstein Around The City

On view now, the great Pop Artist is featured in museums and galleries all over the city. Be sure to check out the famed commercial-esque Art. Some on view for the first time in New York!

Spotlight on Landscape Art

Icosahedron Gallery has had the pleasure of showing many works by Contemporary Landscape painters. By reflecting our environments upon us these artists help us to understand our history and our relationship with the world around us.

Christie's Auction Presents: The Dennis Hopper Collection

This November, as part of Christie's fall auction season, more than 30 works from Hopper's celebrated collection will be part of Christie's New York post-war and contemporary art sale

The Smithsonian Magazine's 6th Annual Museum Day!

This year's museum day is Saturday September 25, 2010

Museum Day is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Media in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket.

The Private Collection of Larry Gagosian

Renowned art dealer Larry Gagosian will be showing his art collection in Abu Dhabi for a first- time public viewing at the Manarat Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi. The exhibition is entitled RSTW, an acronym for “Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Serra, Twombly, Warhol, and Wool” the show’s ensemble of all male artists.

50 Years at Pace

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Pace Gallery presents a multi-venue retrospective of the gallery’s history highlighting the many artists, exhibitions, people, literature and ideals that have influenced its narrative over the past five decades.

Review: "Nueva York" (1613-1945)

On September 17, 2010 El Museo del Barrio in Spanish Harlem opens it's new exhibition documenting the influence of Latino and Spanish-speaking countries on New York culture over a period of four centuries.

Coming Soon: "Abstract Expressionist New York" at MoMA

Fall has arrived and with it brings an exciting new show from the MoMA on view October 3, 2010 -- April 25, 2011

"Abstract Expressionist New York" will display a collection of work drawn entirely from the Museum's incredible collection.

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

If you haven't already had the opportunity to see the site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden be sure to take advantage of the fall weather before the exhibit comes down on October 31, 2010

Bravo’s Work of Art Doesn’t work for Anyone

At some point last winter my mother sent me a link to the BravoTV casting website. She suggested that I audition for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new show “Work of Art”. In my post-college waitressing haze I decided that it seemed like and interesting opportunity...

Review: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition was concurrently on view with its sister exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection(closed August 1st, 2010). The exhibition focuses...

Review: Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was set to close August 1st of this year, but has been extended to the 15th due to its extreme popularity. Even given the extension, the Picasso exhibit was swarmed with tourists this past Saturday struggling to catch a glimpse (what they believed would...

Review: Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids

Andy Warhol’s Big Shot Polaroids are currently on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. This show includes roughly 300 Polaroids and 70 gelatin prints taken by Andy Warhol from 1970-1987. The exhibition works come from the permanent collections of three university art museums in...

Iran as the Promised land of Loss

The Arario Gallery is now having one of the most exciting exhibition in New York, one of the reasons of this fact is the controversial subject of this exhibition: Iran nowdays and its social complexity. In the context of highly diplomatic tensed relation between United States' governement and...

The Possibility Of A Humatopia

James de Blas has a special way to share with us his psychedelic visions: he cherishes representating half human half animal people- like Ancient Egyptians did to represent their gods- dancing in apocalyptic landscapes which picture the strengh of nature, the mystery of wilderness.

Textures As Life Itself

John Williams gives life to textures on his canvases, like the painter Jean Dubuffet did with his series of Texturologies, creating landscapes where gouache in thick layers was used as an element to create a third dimension. Frottage technique, work on the..

The Surrealistic truth of our bodies

Ansen Seale's photographs play with the limits of our perception, to desorientate us, by body distorsions. As if these bodies were genetically modified, or of an other human reality Ansen Seale roots his art in the contemporary research done on body and the limits of its representation.

The Dyonisian Pleasures of Landscapes

The Lohin Geduld gallery exhibits up until the 13th February 2010, landscapes paintings by Albert Kresch. Albert Kresh's paintings linger in our memories because his colors are shaped as a vibrant clay. More over, Kresch's thick color patterns and technique, using mixed media, give his pieces...

The Value of Social Values

Currently on view at the Deitch Gallery in Tribeca is Keith Haring's 70 foot long mural painted in 1985 for the South Market Childcare Centre in San Francisco. The mural features restrained simple black figures painted onto a yellow background in Haring's signature style.