Art

Cuban surrealist Lam painting tops Latam art sale

24 May 2012

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A painting by Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam, named for an African Yoruba goddess also worshipped in the Caribbean, led Sotheby's strongest Latin American evening art sale ever on Wednesday night. Setting an auction record for Lam, the 1944 "�dolo (Oya/Divinité de l'Air et de la mort)," fetched $4.56 million from a South American collector, more than doubling the late artist's ...

Barnes Art Plopped Into Bloated Mausoleum: Lance Esplund

23 May 2012

The creation of the new $150 million Barnes Foundation is the greatest preventable cultural tragedy of our era. And taxpayers footed one third of the bill for this bloated and inferior institution now located in downtown Philadelphia.

Corrected: Shock-seekers snap up new Aussie art dare

23 May 2012

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Smelling excrement may not be everyone's idea of fun, but for those who like to push the boundaries, Australia's most controversial new museum may be just what they are looking for. Dubbed "the subversive adult Disneyland", the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is located in Tasmania and features around 400 works of art from Egyptian mummies to Young British Artists including ...