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A Richard Serra sculpture.Photo: Julia Manzerova via Flickr. Richard Serra is working on a new sculpture for David Zwirner. The major work will be featured at Zwirner’s five-story West 20th Street space, which opened in February of last year, to commemorate the gallery’s 20th anniversary. Though… Read entire story.
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London’s Frieze Week sales have never measured up to its winter or summer sales, which include Impressionist and Modern art, because their focus is more limited. But while confined to middle-market post-war and mostly contemporary art, they saw significant growth for a time, increasing from £85 million in total sales in 2006 to £292 million […]
A video performance of “Giants in the Sky” from the Fiasco Theater’s production of “Into the Woods.”
Like many famous artworks from the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) has a larger-than-life quality. The painting, which depicts the Roman goddess of beauty emerging from a shell accompanied by other deities, has been described as an allegory of love and rebirth, its central figure transcending the offensive, sensual nudity of […]