The Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s.Before the 1940s the major advances in modern painting were for...
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Kooning Report
Every greater painter is dysfunctional in some way or at least had a hard life. Willem De Kooning has had a hard life, but seemed to overcome it with his passion for painting. De Kooni...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - A Hong Kong billionaire has paid a record 17.3
million US dollars for a painting of China's Chairman Mao Zedong by
pop artist Andy Warhol, it was revealed ...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Entertainment mogul David Geffen has made a 2-
billion-dollar offer for the Los Angeles Times, but the newspaper's
owners, The Tribune Co., are looking f...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Christie's auction of a
private collection of contemporary, post-war and folk art took
in $52.4 million Monday, hinting that prices in the booming
contemporary market could we...
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New Yorkers with gobs and gobs of money can afford certain pleasures, like Mayan abdominal massages or pomegranate-tangerine juices or the occasional 9,000-square-foot East Hampton mansion.
And bec...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The contemporary art world's
brightest stars, including Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, have
aligned to provide AIDS relief in Africa with a special auction
in New York conceived...
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“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, the museum’s director, describes Picasso and American Art, an exhibition that...
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“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, the museum’s director, describes Picasso and American Art, an exhibition that...
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Today is Monday, March 19, the 78th day of 2007. There are 287 days left in the year. This is the date the swallows traditionally return to the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California.Today's Hig...
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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2007. There are 124 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Aug. 29, 1957, the Senate gave final congressional approval ...
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A couple of years ago, the O.K. Harris Gallery organized an exhibition of late sculptures by Philip Pavia (1912–2005). Pavia died shortly after this tantalizing show of large primitivistic he...
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Hong Kong billionaire pays record for Warhol Chairman Mao painting
