Sherman, Cindy (1954—)
To some extent, Cindy Sherman has reached cult figure status in the artworld. With her ability to transform herself into various subjects, Sherman uses her photography as...
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Cindy Sherman (born 1954) used photography to challenge images in popular culture and the mass media. Her work concentrated on examining the way women are viewed by society. She used herself as a mode...
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Cindy Sherman has been acclaimed as "the girl with a hundred faces" by Sandrine Malinaud of the periodical Cimaise. Her head has been crowned in thick ringlets of hair, and presented bare as a monk's....
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An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than $71 million, more than quadrupling the previous top auction price for the pop artist's work, an auction house said.The Wednesday auction of postwar and co...
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Adam Sender, a hedge-fund man with an absurdly gorgeous art collection, now has an absurd 36th-floor duplex in the brand-new financial district condo called Downtown by Philippe Starck.
According t...
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From May through September 2006, a Venetian villa was home to a unique exhibition of contemporary artworks owned by French
entrepreneur
François
Pinault
. "Where Are We Going?" showcased 250 ...
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What Is Painting? asks the title of a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a provocative question, if only in that MoMA feels it’s worth raising. You’d think the cur...
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Leah Erickson let out an exasperated growl when she spotted a banner advertising "Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007" crookedly thumbtacked above a row of photographs framed and lit with museu...
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For 4 days each December, Art Basel Miami Beach and its sister show, Design Miami, lure thousands of the world's top gallerists, design firms, and wealthy collectors to South Florida. In 5 short ye...
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It isn’t much of a stretch to call last Thursday’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash grand Chelsea opening an era-defining event, the art world’s equivalent of Truman Capote’s stori...
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It isn’t much of a stretch to call last Thursday’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash grand Chelsea opening an era-defining event, the art world’s equivalent of Truman Capote’s stori...
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Wednesday 13thLessons learned this week! April is turning out to be the cruelest for some of our favorite famous folk (as death claimed holy men, literary men and princes without discretion), the S...
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