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Auction room during the Sotheby's modern art sale

A Piet Mondrian Painting Sold for a Record Breaking $51 Million at Auction

A rare Piet Mondrian composition from 1930 broke the artist's auction record during a Sotheby's evening sale.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Composition No. II by Piet Mondrian

A Rarely Seen Painting by Modern Art Master Piet Mondrian Heads to Auction This Week

Piet Mondrian's Composition No. II is likely to break the record for works by the Dutch master of modern art when it is auctioned next week.
By Emma Burleigh
facade of the Met

Whitney Museum Curator David Breslin Set to Lead the Met’s Modern and Contemporary Art Expansion

David Breslin, former Whitney curator, will spearhead a $500 million expansion of the Met's modern and contemporary art spaces.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Winold Reiss in New York: What Does it Mean to Be Modern?

By Anne Wallentine

Christie’s Has Updated Its Auction Categories to 20th and 21st Century

By Helen Holmes

Everything You Need to Know About the Modigliani Expected to Sell for $150 Million

By Daniel Grant
Beirut's corniche in July 2006.

Private Museum for Arab Art Slated for 2020 Opening in Beirut

By Alanna Martinez
Some of the newly discovered cave paintings.

38,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Could Have Huge Impact on Archaeology and Modern Art

By John Bonazzo
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 28: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) presents the 2013 National Medal of Arts to Architect Billie Tsien (L) and Tod Williams (2nd L) during an East Room ceremony July 28, 2014 at the White House in Washington, DC. Tsien and Williams were honored for their contributions to architecture and arts education.

Architects Named for Obama Library, Sotheby’s Auctioneer Stands Behind London Market

By Alanna Martinez
L'Eternel Printemps.

How Screwed Is Sotheby’s?

By Guelda Voien
Artist Frank Stella.

Frank Stella Is Secretly the Art World’s Funnyman

By Alanna Martinez
Artwork by Francisco Vidal on view at London gallery Tiwani Contemporary's booth in the Armory Focus: African Perspective section.

At Armory Show, No Signs of Art Market Slowing

By Alanna Martinez
Erro's "Poutine et Myley Cyrus," 2014.

European Pop Art, More Political Than Ours, Returns With Erro at Perrotin

By Anthony Haden-Guest
The 2011 LISTE Art Fair. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Art Market Hits ‘Mania Phase,’ School Fights Air Rights Decision—and More

By Alanna Martinez

Life Is a Cabaret? NY Museum Show Shines Up Berlin’s True Pre-War Darkness

By Piri Halasz
Pablo Picasso, La Gommeuse, (1901), was the sale's top lot and fetched $67.5 million. (Photo: Sotheby's)

Sotheby’s Art Sale and the Historic Tenfold Climb in Impressionist and Modern Art

By Alanna Martinez

Milk Studios Exhibits Civil War Photography for the Instagram Age

By Eliza M Dumais
Manhattan, Chinatown Rooftop Graffiti (Photo: Maremagnum/Getty Images)

Tag This: Collector Commissions Huge Graffiti Project in the Bronx

By Eliza M Dumais
Exterior of Centre Pompidou (Photo: © Jean-Pierre Dalbéra | CC BY 2.0)

Centre Pompidou Plans to Open Pop-Up Museums Throughout France

By Marina Zheng

Tour of Duty: Gillibrand Tours the Whitney with Veterans

By Reid Pillifant
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