Adonis Real and Adam Titcher, both prominent Yuga Lab NFT collectors, have filed a class-action lawsuit with the Federal Central District Court of California alleging that Yuga Labs paid celebrities like Madonna and Justin Bieber to endorse their products while making...
Andres Serrano was born in 1950 in New York City. He attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1967 to 1969, where he studied painting and sculpture. Serrano's name, along with Robert Mapplethorpe's, was at the crossroads of the 1989 Cultural Wars when Serrano's...
The most vandalised artwork in modern history, 'Piss Christ', 1987, by the American artist Andres Serrano, is celebrating its 35th anniversary. On this occasion, the artwork will be immortalised on the Ethereum blockchain to guard against future destruction. The...
They say that in Paris, the story finds you. With the first edition of Paris + Art Basel opening after Frieze London, the city of lights has re-emerged as the leading capital of culture. Whilst the fair was sensationally vast but perceptually challenging, rammed with...
A 1953 painting by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976), 'Going to the Match', has sold at Christie's for GBP 7,846,500. It is understood that the work of art will remain in the UK and was purchased by The Lowry gallery in Salford, where it was displayed for many...
The sale proceeds of Jeff Koons’ iconic Balloon Monkey (Magenta) (2006-13), which sold for £10,136,500 / $12,437,486 / €11,738,067 at Christie’s last night, will be donated to raising vital funds for humanitarian aid for Ukraine. The sculpture was generously donated...
A Man Ray photograph 'Le Violon d'Ingres' has set a new record price for a photograph at auction, selling for $12.4 million. After more than 10 minutes of competitive bidding, the lot was sold at Christie's New York showroom. The results were exceptional across all...
Donald Baechler, who died in April, was one of the most promising artists of the 1980s. He was associated with a group of painters in New York that included Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Philip Taaffe. Baechler created pieces by expressing an...
Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' made double history last night as the most costly painting ever sold by a US artist and the most costly 20th-century work of art to sell at auction. The silkscreen on canvas created in 1964 sold for $195 million during Christie's...