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  Image provided by Banksy Explained   On 5 October 2018, a version of  Balloon Girl   with the artist’s frame sold at  Sotheby’s London  for GBP 1,042,000. However, shortly after the gavel dropped and the sale was final, an alarm sounded inside of the picture frame and the canvas passed through a shredder hidden within the frame, partially shredding the image. The prank received wide news coverage around the world, with one newspaper stating that it was  “quite possibly the biggest prank in art history.” Banksy  then released a video on how the shredder was installed into the frame and the shredding of the picture, explaining that he had surreptitiously fitted the painting with the shredder a few years previously, in case it ever went up for auction. To explain his rationale for destroying his own artwork,  Banksy  quoted  Picasso: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”...

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Bob Dylan, music legend and Nobel laureate, is also a prolific painter whose works depicting the landscapes and culture of the United States are now the focus of a major London exhibition. Around 200 paintings by the US singer-songwriter, produced by the 75-year-old in the last two years, are on show from Saturday at the Halcyon Gallery in the British capital's plush Mayfair district. The collection of oil, acrylic and watercolour paintings reveals a different side to Robert Allen Zimmerman, an icon of 20th century US popular music, whose poetic lyrics earned him the Nobel Prize for literature last month, to much surprise. 

An exhibition of paintings by Nashvillebased filmmaker and artist Harmony Korine will be on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts from November 4, 2016, to January 16, 2017. Korine, who is best known as the filmmaker/auteur of such films as Kids, Gummo, Trash Humpers, and Spring Breakers, is also an accomplished painter, having shown works in museums throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Japan, since 1999. The twelve large and dynamic works of Shadows and Loops have the improvisatory spirit of outsider art and share some of the disruptive qualities of his films. Seen together, the crudely painted figures, shadowy sublayers, and psychedelic looping patterns of the paintings offer up an environment of alienated weirdness, with an emphasis on raw expression and impulsivity rather than intellectual clarity. “His figurative works have the spontaneity of old-school graffiti, with patches of color, rough textural elements, and random marks developed into characters ...

Skobeev Vitaly Skobeev Vitaly was born in 1968 in Kazan in the family of the artist. In 1987 he graduated from the Kazan Art School. After serving in the Army (1990) he continued his studies in the workshop of his father, National Artist of Russia, V.N. Skobeev. He held more than 20 exhibitions from 1991 to 2015, more of them are personal. His works are in the State museums and private collections in Russia. He lives and works in Kazan.                                                           'The creation of a man'   'The creation of a soul' 'Leonardo's planet' 'The Tree of life'

David Hockney, OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In the 1970s, Hockney began working in photography, creating photo collages he called joiners. He continues to create and exhibit art, and in 2011 he was voted the most influential British artist of the 20th century.

 De Buck Gallery announced United States representation of the Estate of Bernard Aubertin, the French avant-garde artist who is best known for his monochromatic red nail paintings and for his association with the global ZERO movement. Following a visit to the studio of Yves Klein in 1957, Bernard Aubertin was inspired to follow in Klein’s footsteps and work within the field of monochromy, a style he adamantly adhered to throughout his career, choosing a vibrant red hue just as Klein famously worked in blue. Aubertin’s first monochrome works were created in 1958 and featured canvases covered in materials such as nails, bolts, and screws all painted in red. By 1961, he officially joined the ZERO group, seeking to create a detached, expressionless approach to art making. Later in his career, his practice evolved to incorporate performance, and he became known for setting fire to his own work and exhibiting the remains. Since the 1960s, Aubertin's work has been widely exhibited th...

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) celebrates its first decade of collecting and the tenth anniversary in its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed facility with the largest and most ambitious presentation of its collection to date. First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA features over 100 works by seminal artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Louise Bourgeois, Nick Cave, Paul Chan, Marlene Dumas, Eva Hesse, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol. Occupying the entirety of the museum’s east galleries, First Light combines audience favorites with new acquisitions, many on view at the ICA for the first time. This exhibition is organized by the ICA’s curatorial department under the leadership of Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator. First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA is on view from August 17, 2016 to January 16, 2017. During the first week of October, midway through the presentation, there will be a rotation of some of the sections (or “ch...

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, the first institutional survey exhibition to explore the evolution of the celebrated Japanese artist’s immersive infinity rooms, will embark on the most significant North American tour of her work in nearly two decades. Following its debut at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on Feb. 23, 2017, which is the organizing institution, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors will travel to four major museums in the United States and Canada, including the Seattle Art Museum (June 30–Sept. 10, 2017), The Broad in Los Angeles (October 2017–January 2018), the Art Gallery of Ontario (March—May 2018), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (July–October 2018). Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors provides visitors with the unique opportunity to experience six of Kusama’s most iconic kaleidoscopic environments at once, alongside large-scale, whimsical installations and key paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the early 1950s to the present. It also marks the North Amer...

Vitaly Gunaza was born in 1980 in the Pskov region, Russia. He studied at the Art College of Zaporozhye (Ukraine). In 2007, he graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Minsk, Belarus), department of painting. Since 2001 he participates in exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Serbia, Germany. Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.

Joel Shapiro (born September 27, 1941, New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes.  While serving his Peace Corp time in India, Shapiro saw many Indian art works, and has said that “India gave me the sense of … the possibility of being an artist.” In India “Art was pervasive and integral to the society”, and he has said that "the struggle in my work to find a structure that reflects real psychological states may well use Indian sculpture as a model."  He lives and works in New York City.

Feast for the Eyes is an exploration of how food has always inspired artists. The exhibition opened at Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York on July 30, 2016, and remains on view through November 6, 2016. Feast for the Eyes, a sweeping two-floor exhibition focused on food and dining in art, features works by a wide range of artists, including Audrey Flack, Red Grooms, George Grosz, Henri Matisse, Claes Oldenberg, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, among many others. According to guest curator Franklin Hill Perrell “Food has always been celebrated in art.” He pointed out that food has been a inspiration from man’s earliest times, from cavemen depicting the hunt, to Greek and Romans depictions of food and feasting.” Perrell said that Feast for the Eyes brings art related to food and dining into the present day with 20th century movements such as realism and photorealism. Perrell said that A Feast for the Eyes would include work reflecting these movements but “we’re going ...

SITE Santa Fe announced the opening of SITElines.2016 Biennial. This is the second installment in SITE Santa Fe’s reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas. The exhibition features over 35 artists from 11 countries and 6 new commissions organized around intersecting ideas brought together by a team of five curators−Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra, and Kiki Mazzucchelli.

A major new Artist Rooms exhibition devoted to the drawings of the German artist Joseph Beuys is a highlight of the summer programme at the National Galleries of Scotland this year. The exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art brings together, for the first time, the extraordinary group of over 110 drawings by Beuys held in the Artist Rooms collection. Put together with great care and knowledge over many years by Anthony d’Offay, the drawings cover the whole of the artist’s career from 1945 to the end of his life, reflecting his encyclopaedic interest in nature, science, philosophy, mythology, society, politics and religion. This is the largest and most important collection outside Germany by this key figure of post-war art. Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) is perhaps best known for his ‘Actions’, installations and sculpture, but first and foremost he was an artist who was interested in ideas: ideas about how the world, both natural and social, functioned and how the latter...

Gerhard Richter  is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In October 2012, Richter's Abstraktes Bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at $34 million (£21 million). This was exceeded in May 2013 when his 1968 piece Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral square, Milan) was sold for $37.1 million (£24.4 million) in New York. This was further exceeded in February 2015 when his painting Abstraktes Bild sold for $44.52 million (£30.4 million) in London at Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Sale

Arman Allakhverdian was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1979. His spent his childhood in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and this city has a great influence on his art. He is primarily an oil painter working in impressionist style. His passion for art started at an early age, but he has never had professional education. He held his first art exhibit in 2012 at Art galery’s A.S. Gavdzinskiy, Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine . He has had shows in Ankara and Istanbul 2014, 2016, and his showing was well-received by his circle of supporters. Arman has experimented with several mediums, but oils tend to be his most preferred medium. Being a   self-represented artist gives him the freedom and proficiency to express himself with oils, his work has evolved through his own personal experience. The old masters have always been his greatest source of information and techniques. He strives to improve his craft with every new picture he paints. His pictures are always stories about the souls and their ways ...

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 - 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. In this last image: A young lady looks at "Paysage charbonneux" by French artist Jean Dubuffet dated 1946, and valued at 3.5 million Marks (1.5 million Dollars) at the 34th International fair for modern art "Art Cologne" in Cologne, Germany, Friday, November 3, 2000.