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  • 3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Kelly Crow

    Sotheby’s hoped to prove the sculptor’s trophy appeal but wary collectors shied away. The art market wasn’t head over heels for Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss-Italian sculptor whose spindly bronze bust of his younger brother Diego was expected to be the priciest piece of New York’s ongoing spring auctions. Instead, wary collectors at Sotheby’s on Tuesday were spooked by the house’s $70 million asking price for 1955’s “Large Thin Head”—and the work failed to sell at all.

  • 3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Kelly Crow

    Christie’s modern art sales kick off a weeklong series of art auctions that will gauge the art market’s strength amid broader economic uncertainty. Will art values soar or flop? A grid-like painting featuring a patchwork of red, yellow and blue squares by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian sold for $47.6 million on Monday.

  • 3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Kelly Crow

    5 hours agoOpinion | Donald Trump, the conservationist conservativePlus: Mass shootings are down. America, photographed. The war on multilingualism. In today’s edition: Mass shootings are way, way down • Stunning photographs from rural-urban America • Trump’s tariffs could ... save the trees? • America is made up of many languages. That’s a good thing.

  • 1 month ago | wsj.com | Kelly Crow

    The artist who became a pop culture icon on TV by teaching people how to paint hasn’t been taken seriously. His estate wants to change that. Television’s favorite painter, Bob Ross, is finally getting his museum spotlight. A sprawling exhibition of dozens of the artist’s happy little landscapes is expected to open at the Minnetrista Museum & Gardens in Muncie, Ind., later this year or early next.

  • 2 months ago | wsj.com | Kelly Crow |Victoria Rosselli |Andrew Levinson

    JANUARY 1944. No family came to visit the young woman who lay, withering, in the chilly psychiatric hospital on the hilly outskirts of Vienna. Had they peered through the huge iron gates into Steinhof, as the hospital was known, they would have seen neat rows of red-brick buildings encircled by gardens, deceptively serene. Steinhof was designed to be a beacon of modernity in a city known for its psychiatric advances and its famous denizen, Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis.

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