NEW YORK — A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was a phenomenon when it debuted in 2019 at Art…
MADRID — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado Museum during its opening hours — even though he’s been invited to browse anytime as part of a month-long literary fellowship. Still,…
MILAN– An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on the island of Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picassoand has been gathering scientific data to persuade Picasso’s estate administration in Paris to make the definitive call. The rolled-up canvas of a female figure was discovered in…
PARIS — He calls himself a “troglodyte” with his brushes, oil paints, and large canvas among the photographers with expensive cameras and long lenses. They’re all aiming to capture beach volleyball during the 2024 Olympic Games, but their approaches are quite different. “It’s a collage of moments,” says 63-year-old British painter Peter Spens about his…
