Posted by Edward Kurstak on
Posted by Edward Kurstak on
Banksy, the anonymous Londoner who's made his name in the art world on spray-painted urban art, an Oscar-nominated documentary and a creepy, glitchy Disneyland installation, sold a painting at auction for $1.4 million earlier in October—just before shredding it in real-time as soon as the gavel went down. (Photo: New York Times)After the stunt, Sotheby's senior director and head of contemporary art in Europe Alex Branczik said, “It appears we just got Banksy-ed." The auction house soon...
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Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the postmodernist visual art movement called pop art (also inclusive of Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns and others) who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most successful and famous artists of his generation. Born to working-class immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, PA, he suffered from Sydenham’s chorea as a child and was bedridden for an extended time. It was during...