Untitled (white blob), 2005 Vinyl, wood, aluminum and motor1.5 x 2 x 2 meters
CRISP presents the UK solo debut of New York-based artist, CHARLOTTE BECKET.
Exploring the territory between a Sisyphean futility and jubilant optimism, the exhibition uses references to pop psychology and the use of commonplace materials. Kinetic sculptures move slowly - sometimes
imperceptibly - performing gestures born {...}

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction took place this evening and realised £19,063,350 $31,778,604 €22,513,816 selling 88% by lot and 86% by value.

The top price was paid for Night Playground by Peter Doig (b.1959), 1997/98, an exemplary large scale painting described by the artist as one of his own favourites. It was offered at auction for {...}

The Art Institute is sole venue for Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007. The Art Institute of Chicago will inaugurate the Abbott Galleries in the Renzo Piano–designed Modern Wing with a selection of recent work by Cy Twombly. Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007—on view from May 16 through September 13, 2009—celebrates the artist’s abiding concern with {...}

five new monumental paintings by Cy Twombly at Gagosian Britannia Street London.

Each painting comprises four wood panels on which three roses in full bloom are depicted in pulsating colours, ranging from deepest burgundy to tangerine, gold, violet and crimson, set against a background of vibrant turquoise. Inscribed on the last panel of each painting are {...}

Coinciding with Cy Twombly’s eightieth birthday, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present the most important monographic exhibition that any Spanish institution has ever dedicated to this artist—one of the most influential of the latter half of the 20th century and the dawn of the 21st—from October 28, 2008, to February 15, 2009, organized in collaboration with the Tate Modern {...}