Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Scream Gallery Presents a Christmas Exhibition with a Seasonal Sprinkling of Diamond Dust

December 11, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions

LONDON.- The Scream Gallery presents a Christmas exhibition with a seasonal sprinkling of diamond dust featuring; Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, James Unsworth, Andy Warhol and Russell Young. ‘Diamonds are Forever’ features some of the most memorable images and iconic figures of recent history, captured Ad Infinitum as silkscreen prints. The exhibition features the Love series produced by The Godfather of British Pop Art, Peter Blake, who shot to fame in the 1960’s as a figurehead of Pop Art in the [...]

The Year of the Rabbit: From Dali to Marilyn Monroe, Playboy Sells Art at Christie’s

December 10, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Art Market

NEW YORK (AP).- A Dali watercolor of a reclining nude that hung in Hugh Hefner’s bedroom was among 125 artworks Playboy magazine offered at Christie’s on Wednesday. It was one of 11 works chosen for “The Playmate as Fine Art” pictorial for the magazine’s January 1967 Playmate review issue that asked artists to create Playmate-inspired art. The nude sold for $266,500, above its presale estimate of $100,000 to $150,000, to an anonymous buyer. This picture provided by Christie’s shows a [...]