FILE PHOTO: Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff known as Christo attends a news conference during the presentation of the installation ‘The Floating Piers’, on the Lake Iseo, northern Italy June 16, 2016. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini NEW YORK (Reu... More »
FILE PHOTO: Members of Christie’s staff pose for pictures next to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” painting which will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in November, in London, Britain October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls NEW YORK (Reuters) – Leon... More »
The last privately owned Leonardo da Vinci painting and one of fewer than 20 by the Renaissance artist known to still exist is hitting the auction block, Christie's announced on Tuesday. More »
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work commands some of the highest prices of any living female artist, said on Tuesday that at age 88, she still fills her days painting and has no intention of slowing down. More »
A sign is pictured outside Christie’s auction house in Geneva, Switzerland, December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse As auction powerhouses Christie’s and Sotheby’s gear up for their New York spring sales, hopes are high that a host of major works the likes ... More »
More than a dozen works by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy are among a collection of street and contemporary art up for auction in Los Angeles next month. More »
FILE PHOTO – Visitors view U.S. artist James Rosenquist’s ”Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt” (1998) on display by the Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York at the Art 37 in Bas... More »
One of the UK’s first major exhibitions charting modern and contemporary American pop art opened at the British Museum in London this week, with works from New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art. More »
Magician David Copperfield arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California February 28, 2016. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok If you had to name just one person on Earth who is living his or her best life, David Copperfield would have to be among th... More »
Singer and actor David Bowie is shown on screen as singer Dave Grohl performs during the In Memoriam segment at the 88th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 28, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni – RTS8GQR Sotheby’s on Monday previewed the contemporary a... More »
LONDON The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei will have what is being billed as the biggest retrospective of his work ever staged in Britain at an exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Art in September, the academy said on Monday. The show is being mounte... More »
LONDON Works by Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol will form part of what auctioneers Sotheby’s said on Tuesday is poised to be the most valuable sale of contemporary art in London, with a pre-sale estimate of up to 204.6 million pounds ($328.9 million). The July 1... More »
