Botticelli’s “Man of Sorrows”. An Original (?) Sold for $45.4m
Sotheby’s sold Man of Sorrows by Botticelli for $45.4 m, a new record for a piece that has been highly questioned for his originality.
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Sotheby’s sold Man of Sorrows by Botticelli for $45.4 m, a new record for a piece that has been highly questioned for his originality.
The Whitney Biennial, originally scheduled for 2021 and posponed for the pandenic, will run from April 6 to september 5 with the participacion of 63 artists and art collectives from around the world.
Combining poignant historical footage of the past 150 years; news segments from the past five years; and dozens of first-person recordings posted to online forums like Parler, Insurrection by Andrés Serrano is an unflinchingly graphic narrative film that chronicles the events culminating on January 6, 2021. “I don’t want to brag, but I think this is one of the most violent and controversial movies ever made”, said the artist.
Artist Tomás Saraceno has developed an artistic installation able to fly without fossil fuels. His most recent project is a response to the urgency of the climate changeRead more
Feliza Bursztyn: Welding Madness is the artist’s first comprehensive retrospective to be mounted outside of Colombia. The exhibition presents sculptures and two-dimensional works from each stage of the artist’s development, showcasing the depth and breadth of Bursztyn’s tragically brief and brilliant career.
Dada is undoubtley one of the most important art movements of the 20th Century. Its power and importance has been historically attributed to characters such as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp or Man Ray. However, art history has forgot the key role some women artists played on this movement and the influence of their work on subsequent movements. The MoMA is currently displaying a major exhibition of one of the artists whose artistic practice was so innovative that transitioned from Dadaism to Abstractionism.