Reviews of Ed Ruscha, Lee Friedlander, Salvador Dali’ and of the National Gallery of Scotland exhibition “Impressionist Gardens”, plus a 500 year old Leonardo da Vinci sketch judged “astonishingly modern”.

The auction of Modern and Contemporary Australian Art at Christie’s later this month will offer a pair of rediscovered paintings of historical importance that was found in an attic, and which was identified and consigned to auction through none other that Christie’s iPhone application.

What do you get when you put together renowned fashion photographer Raymond Meier, Nick Cave of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and none other than Vogue magazine?

Chuck Close self-portrait You’ve heard of portrait painter Chuck Close, and you’ve heard of political satirist Stephen Colbert, but you probably have never pictured the two together—until last Thursday, when Colbert featured Close in an entertaining segment on his show, The Colbert Report. Colbert interviewed the celebrated artist, who briefly described his evolution as a [...]

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