Curated Video
Art business is still booming in Basel for theworld's premier art fair.
This self-portrait by Andy Warhol was sold on the first day of Art Basel, the world's premier Art Fair.
The price tag was undisclosed but the New York-based gallery Skarsted that made the sale said it sold "somewhere in the region of...
Curated Video
Preview to sale of abstract and impressionist works
1. Wide Exterior of Christie''s in New York
2. Close Up sign reading, "Christie''s"
3. Wide pan across gallery
4. Zoom into "Sail Cloth" by Willem de Koooning (1949) estimated value $8-12million
3. Wide Shot of "The Crow Dancer" by...
Curated Video
Preview to big modern art auction
1. Wide shot tilt up from Warhol Campbell's Soup crates to show gallery
2. Medium shot Rauschenberg
3. Detail, tilt down, Rauschenberg work "Minutiae"
4. Detail "Minutiae"
5. SOUNDBITE: (English): Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's:
"The market is...
Curated Video
USA: NEW YORK: JAPAN'S PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE AWARDS
English/Nat
Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and Japanese-born architect Fumihiko Maki were among the five recipients of the 1999 Praemium Imperiale.
The awards, which are considered to be Japan's Nobel prize for the arts, were presented in...
Curated Video
Sharon Stone helps raise $1.1M for AIDS research
Sharon Stone and beau Martin Mica and a host of other celebrities attended a dinner and the charity auction of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, or amFar, on Saturday night. ( September 22 )
The actress has helped to raise more...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Modernism: Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955
This video [4:48] discusses Robert Rauschenberg's, Bed, 1955, oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports, 191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm (The Museum of Modern Art) 2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transforming Everyday Objects: Modern Art & Ideas
Many artists use or combine everyday objects to challenge assumptions about what constitutes "art" and how it should be made. Learn how Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, and Robert Rauschenberg did the same with a bicycle wheel and a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Pop Art: Lesson 2
This lesson will examine Pop Art, mass media, and kitsch. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Pop Art."