Performance artist Marina Abramovic has acquired a large theatre in Hudson, a village about two hours north of Manhattan, where she plans to establish a nonprofit foundation dedicated to performance art. “I want it to function as a research centre for performance,” she told The Art Newspaper, describing plans for artist workshops, courses for the [...]
Warhol’s Liz Taylor sold for $23m
Warhol’s Liz Taylor sold for $23m Liz is a classic example of Warhol’s work. Enlarge Image An Andy Warhol painting of actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor has been sold for $23.7m (£11.4m) at a New York auction. An anonymous bidder bought the 1963 portrait, called Liz, which had been expected to fetch more than $25m (£11.9m) [...]
Wang Guangyi
In the mid-1980s, Wang Guangyi espoused a humanist vision of art for post-Mao China. His series of paintings entitled “Frozen North Pole” sought to evoke, in the artist’s words, “a kind of beauty of sublime reason which contains constant, harmonious feelings of humanity.” Abstract human figures placed in orderly, grid-like arrangements face uniformly forward, as [...]
