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• Metallica drummer to sell Basquiat painting
NEW YORK - Lars Ulrich, songwriter and drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica, is selling a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from his art collection that could set a new auction record for the artist. “Untitled (Boxer)” was painted in 1982 by ...
• Tate Britain museum buys rare Rubens sketch
The Tate, with help from several art and heritage foundations, paid $9.9 million for the sketched version of Rubens’ larger painting “The Apotheosis of James I” — which depicts King James I being carried to heaven. The completed artwork was ...
• Former astronaut Alan Bean on artistic voyage
From those emotions he created his 1986 painting, "That's How It Felt to Walk on the Moon." Another painting, "The Fantasy — Conrad, Gordon, and Bean," shows all three astronauts of Apollo 12 — Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Richard Gordon along ...
• New exhibit puts focus on Gordon Parks
An interpretation of the iconic 1930 painting by Grant Wood, Parks’ photograph shows a black cleaning woman, Ella Watson, standing in front of an American flag while holding a mop and broom, echoing the stoic stance of the pitchfork-wielding farmer ...
• The world’s strangest museums
Meanwhile, the Museum of Bad Art, in Dedham, Mass., eagerly promotes art that no one would ever find in New York’s Metropolitan: many of their pieces were acquired by rummaging through the trash. In fact, when one artist learned his painting on was ...