Image of a flower with blue petals on a blue background. I can almost feel it, beneath my parka. Not quite, but almost: burgeoning, blossoming, a murmur of springtime. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim ...

To those outside of the art world, the astronomical amount of money collectors spend at auction can be hard to comprehend. Why would someone pay $12 million for Damien Hirst’s “The Physical ...

The experience of looking at Megan Rooney’s work is full of surprises. Immediately striking is the size – Rooney paints freely in the ‘wingspan’ format, where she paints as far as her arm can reach – ...

The pale, porcelain skin of Ayako Rokkaku’s petite hands brightens the navy blue ceramic tea cup held in her palms. For nearly two decades, the artist has used her hands instead of brushes, dipping ...

The artwork of late artist Kim Whan-ki once again challenges his sales record, with a rare red-dotted abstract painting to be auctioned in Hong Kong later this week. Seoul Auction announced that four ...

“MAGNIFICENT”; “stunning”; “his single greatest painting”. Such are the superlatives that greeted “Blue Poles” by Jackson Pollock, one of America’s finest post-war artists, upon its arrival at ...

Few paintings in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection inspire reverence quite like Jackson Pollock’s Number 1A (1948). It’s a maze of paint, a ghostly white fog hanging amid sinews of black and blue ...

It's one of his most celebrated paintings, and a stunning showcase of his distinctive 'drip' technique. 'Number 1A, 1948', on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, is thought to ...

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