Topic: Art

The Bea Arthur Naked Portrait (Only) Went for $1.9 Million at Christie's

John Currin/Christie's

Sorry, Internet: Your new favorite painting isn't quite as golden as its bare-breasted Golden Girl of a subject.

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 12, 2011

Shepard Fairey Got Beat Up by Danish Left-Wing Radicals

European leftists evidently don't care for either Obama or hipsters

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By Uri Friedman

Jul 21, 2011

Lucian Freud, Portrait Artist, Dead at 88

The grandson of Sigmund Freud was famous for his nude portraiture

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jul 5, 2011

Artist Cy Twombly, Dead at 83 in Rome

The celebrated artist helped shape 20th-century abstraction from the 1950s forward

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By Adam Martin

Jun 22, 2011

Why China Released Ai Weiwei

Early analyses of China's move suggest it was all about cleaning up its image

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jun 21, 2011

The Brooklyn Museum Cancels Controversial Graffiti Show

Sensationalism combined with the murky art market have burned the museum before

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By Ray Gustini

Jun 14, 2011

David Lynch Has Another New Hobby: Nightclub Design

'Mulholland Dr.' themed Paris nightclub is the latest side gig for the director

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jun 6, 2011

Four-Year-Old Artist Funds College Education with Three Paintings

The latest toddler Picasso is selling paintings in Chelsea for nearly $30,000 each

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By Alex Eichler

May 13, 2011

Ai Weiwei as a Struggling Young New York Artist

Back in the '80s, Ai was a New York sketch artist trying to make ends meet

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By Caitlin Dickson

May 6, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Friday Columns

On unemployment, graffiti, and torture apologists

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By Alex Eichler

Apr 22, 2011

Banksy's 'Kissing Cops' to Be Shipped to America and Sold

The anonymous graffiti artist loses a work to the indoors

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By Adam Martin

Apr 14, 2011

China May Have Made Ai Weiwei an Offer That He Refused

Detaining the artist may not have been Chinese officials' first attempt to rein him in

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 11, 2011

More Theories on Ai Weiwei's Arrest: Nude Photos, Plagiarism

The Chinese dissident artist's driver and accountant have also now gone missing

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By Heather Horn

Apr 6, 2011

Bob Dylan's Ideals Are Not On Stage in China

Dylan self-censors his first performance in China days after Ai Weiwei's arrest

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