Francis Bacon

Andy Warhol's 'Double Elvis' brings in $37 million at auction

2012-05-10 07:26:00

A version of Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" that has ties to Los Angeles brought in $37 million at a �Sotheby's auction on Wednesday in New York. The silkscreen work, which depicts Presley in a cowboy pose, was offered for sale by an unidentified American...

Steve Cohen, billionaire financier and art collector, joins MOCA board

2012-01-12 21:33:07

Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter works bring in millions at auction

2012-02-16 16:32:22

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' headed for auction at Sotheby's

2012-02-21 16:32:47

Gunter Sachs' art collection heading to auction

2012-03-13 16:32:17

Andy Warhol's Elvis Presley painting could sell for $50 million

2012-03-16 16:34:10

Patt Morrison Asks: Canon lawyer, Bert Fields

2011-10-29 00:00:00

Who wrote Shakespeare? Sounds like "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" Yet about 150 years ago, people on both sides of the Atlantic began asking how an otherwise obscure William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon could have crafted the most brilliant works...

Book Review: 'The Art of Cruelty'

2011-07-24 00:00:00

The Art of Cruelty A Reckoning Maggie Nelson W.W. Norton: 304 pp., $24.95 From a movie billboard in her Los Angeles neighborhood to the Italian Futurists, Maggie Nelson swings her lively gaze across a century's worth of art and culture in "The Art...

Lucian Freud dies at 88; British painter

2011-07-22 00:00:00

Lucian Freud, a British artist who gained fame for his intense and deeply textural nude paintings, has died. He was 88. Freud, the grandson of the pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, died Wednesday at his home in London following an illness,...

Shakespeare whodunit

2011-11-01 21:35:37

Shakespeare Center L.A. honors Hollywood figures, professor

2011-09-22 16:33:09

'Modern Family' recap: The time traveler's wife (and kids)

2010-09-23 04:35:44

1:45 p.m. Wander down to the Thames to explore London's riverside cultural quarter, the South Bank. Theater enthusiasts should head to the thatch-roofed, oak-beamed Shakespeare's Globe, a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse originally built in 1599.

2011-10-19 10:18:01

The museum's role: Plenty happens at the Gotham Museum of Art in "Batman," and depending on who is asked, it varies between a kidnapping or an attempt at seduction.

2011-03-28 18:39:50