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Norman Rockwell’s Blacksmith Boy (1940), which sold at Sotheby’s today for a hammer of $7 million, its low estimate. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S On Wednesday morning at Sotheby’s in New York, one…
Robert O’Hara, Courtney Bryan, Michael Rakowitz, Lani Alpert, Herb Alpert, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Arthur Jafa. FRANCESCO DA VINCI The Herb Alpert Foundation and the California Institute of the Arts have…
Clockwise from top left: Dana Frankfort, Edna Mayer, 2017, oil on canvas on panel; Francis Almendarez, video installation; Natasha Bowdoin, Maneater, 2018, acrylic and cut paper on wall and vinyl…
Aruna D’Souza’s new book. COURTESY BADLANDS UNLIMITED Aruna with a View The incisive art writer (and sometime ARTnews contributor) Aruna D’Souza wrote about the controversy around Dana Schutz’s Open Casket…
Mary Margaret Pettway. KRISTIN C. LAW The Souls Grown Deep Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting, preserving, and exhibiting work by African-American artists from the American South, has named artist…
Jeff Sonhouse, Grafted Populist, 2017, oil on paper. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY, CHICAGO Chicago gallery Monique Meloche will relocate from its space in Wicker Park to the…
Pictures at an Exhibition Pirkle Jones, Kathleen Cleaver and the Black Panthers (“Free Huey” rally,Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, CA, Sept. 22, 1968, from: Black Panther), 1968–69. ©PIRKLE JONES…
Amie Cunat, Meetinghouse, installation view, 2018. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND VICTORI+MO “I think in all of the work there might be this initial misconception that I’m trying to be funny,”…
Robert Indiana’s Amor at the National Gallery of Art in 2013. ELVERT BARNES PHOTOGRAPHY/FLICKR News Robert Indiana, the Pop purveyor of love, hope, and American darkness, has died at the…
The Art Show at Park Avenue Armory COURTESY ADAA The art fair calendar in New York in February and March will once again be a bit complicated next year. The…