Last November, Andy Warhol’s 1962 painting “Men in Her Life” sold for over $60 million at Phillips de Pury & Co. It went for well over its high estimate, and became the second most expensive Warhol painting ever to sell at public auction. Because both the buyer and the under bidder were on the phone, Read More
We were at the cafe at the Park Avenue Armory. The space in front of us looked like a ballet choreographed for mobile phones, with the occasional intrusion of an iPad. The scenery at the ADAA art fair last weekend was modernism, postmodernism and just-out-of-the-shell art, with a few pieces from earlier times. Call it Read More
Nicola Vassell was locking up at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea for only the second time ever last Friday afternoon when she bumped into New York Times art critic Roberta Smith and her husband, Jerry Saltz, of New York magazine. The pair were on their way to see some gallery shows. Though plainly well acquainted Read More
The worst thing anyone says about Leo Castelli in Leo and His Circle, the new biography of the legendary art dealer by historian Annie Cohen-Solal, is that he was a gentleman and a go-between with “an exceptional gift for public relations.”
That characterization comes from curator Robert Storr, currently the dean of Read More
