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NY Times - A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, an artist known for her raw emotional intensity, sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday night, setting an auction benchmark for the most expensive artwork by a...

NY Times - A watercolor by Vincent van Gogh, seized by the Nazis during World War II and not publicly exhibited since 1905, is to be sold at auction next month in New York, where experts at Christie’s estimate ...

 NY Times - It was “business as usual,” said the Russian art adviser and collector Alex Lachmann on Wednesday, as he made his way through the crowd of V.I.P.s at the opening of the first in-person Frieze London...

I used to think that to be relevant as an artist was to participate in the logic of the market, but that changed in 2011. - read more ...

Smithsonian - That morning, hijackers crashed two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. By half past ten, both skyscrapers had collapsed. Fires burned and toxic ash choked th...

Domus - These days, in Paris, the "packaging" operation of the Arc de Triomphe is taking place. It mixes art and engineering on a massive scale, fulfilling the dream that the famous couple of artists Christo an...

Smithsonian Magazine - Now on tour! Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea, a collaboration among SAAM and four partner museums, offers counterviews of “the West” through the eyes of modern and contemporary...

BBC - Lost or little-known works by the Mexican artist provide fresh insights on her life and work. Holly Williams explores the rarely seen art included in a new book of the complete paintings. - read more ...

Domus - Created by Oki Sato’s studio, one of the best-known Japanese design firms famous for its unique and extravagant design of everyday objects, it is a tribute to the sun and its energy, but also to Japanes...