Leading lights - Collectors
Go bananas: Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” gifted to the Guggenheim
Art isn’t always bowls of apples, pears, and grapes, sometimes, it’s a banana, and sometimes it’s a banana that’s made its way into the Guggenheim’s collection. Of course, we’re talking […]
The Decade, Priciest Art: the most expensive art of the 2010s by year
Let’s face it… the art market of 2009 probably didn’t quite anticipate the years that were to come. The last decade has been an intense time with artworks selling for incredible […]
High Museum receives donation of 24 impressionist, post-impressionist, and modernist artworks
Just a few days ago, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art shared that they will receive a donation of 24 impressionist, post-impressionist, and modernist paintings. The donation comes from Doris and […]
“A very simple secret”- sketches for Le Petit Prince uncovered
When a piece of work is translated into a language, it gives some hint at a desire for a culture and a people to consume the messages of the work. […]
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys plan to wake up sleepy New York town with new arts and music centre
An old industrial park on Route 31 in Macedon, New York isn’t the place you’d expect to see turned into an arts facility but that’s exactly what Alicia Keys, the […]
170 artworks gifted to Mead Art Museum by anonymous donor
Often times, when a museum receives a sizable donation, it’s a fairly established, publicized event. Sometimes, the process begins years before the gift ever happens and it’s a foregone conclusion […]
Dijon’s museum gets a renovation (II)
Last month, Art Critique announced the highly anticipated reopening of the Dijon Musée des Beaux-Arts. Judgement is reserved about whether the exhibition of modern and contemporary collections lived up to […]
