The paintings of artist Gerhard Richter are being snapped up like gold bars! Richter’s painting “Domplatz, Mailand”, an oil representing the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, was sold Tuesday at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for a whopping $37,125,000 to collector Don Bryant, founder of the California-based Bryant Family Vineyard Napa. The German artist […]

On Friday May 10th, Reign Entertainment Co. held the launch of 3D Art by S. Whittaker and her exhibit “Time Signature.” Whittaker’s works are oil & acrylic based portraits on wooden canvases, featuring famous entertainers from the past, present and future, from Run DMC to Amy Winehouse, the Beastie Boys, and Marvin Gaye. Born in […]

American artist Keith Haring was one of the most celebrated artists of his time, and today everyone knows his incomparable style and repertoire of iconic signs. His works have been exhibited with Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jenny Holzer and Daniel Buren. Known for character committed against all forms of oppression, his […]

More than 1,000 art lovers, celebrities, and supporters of the Whitney Museum of American Art attended the 2013 Whitney Art Party, hosted by the Whitney Contemporaries, the Museum’s dynamic group of young collectors and art enthusiasts. The event was sponsored by Max Mara at Skylight at Moynihan Station. This year’s Art Party raised more than […]

BOMB Magazine, one of the most respected voices in contemporary art and literature, celebrated its 32nd anniversary with a gala benefit dinner and auction of contemporary artworks last week at Capitale in New York City. On Friday, the Honorary Chairs, including Jon Robin Baitz, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, gathered for the gala alongside young […]

Each years individuals and organisations that have made a sustained commitment to the artistic and cultural heritage of the arts in America are honored with an original artwork commissioned from an American artist. This year at the 22nd Annual American Art Awards, held in New York City, artist Anne Colller created the works which were presented […]

James Houston, photographer, director, and activist, was born in 1965, in Sydney, Australia. He began studying ceramic sculpture and design at school, and his background as a sculptor eventually influenced his graphic photographic style. While on a business trip to Tokyo in 1990, Houston bought a second-hand Nikon 35mm camera – at that time photography […]

Born and raised in Germany, photographer Thorsten Roth moved to the US in 2002. He now lives and works in NYC. He studied visual communication/photo ­film­ design, and at the same time began to work in advertising and photojournalism. Right after his studies at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld (Germany), he started working for Conde Nast in […]

Chilean, with a Scottish mother, Francisca Mattéoli spent her childhood in Latin America. After living in Brazil, she now resides in Paris and is the author of numerous travel books published in more than ten countries and translated in several languages. As a travel writer, she has also been published in, among others, National Geographic […]