NEW YORK (AP) ― Claude Monet’s rarely seen “Water Lilies” sold at auction in New York for just over $27 million. The 1907 painting of his beloved garden in Giverny, France, sold Tuesday at Christie’s to an undisclosed bidder. The work was part of late copper heiress Huguette Clark’s estate. It has not been publicly exhibited since 1926. Christie’s is selling hundreds of items from her collection after a feud over her estate was settled in the fall. “Water Lillies” had been expected to sell for $

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art showcases works by emerging young artists at the biennial ARTSPECTRUM exhibition

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Artist Park Hyun-woong showcases relief paintings inspired by childhood memories, travels at solo exhibition

MADRID (AFP) ― Pablo Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece “Guernica,” one of the world’s most iconic paintings, on Sunday served as a backdrop to a dance performance for the first time in its 77-year history.About 80 people sat on the floor or stood as Josue Ullate, a bare-chested dancer in black tights, jumped and leapt in front of the large black-and-white canvas at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum.The 20-year-old performed “Quiebro,” a piece lasting about five minutes and inspired by a song written by la

Japanese artist Aono Fumiaki holds first Seoul exhibition showcasing installations made with broken objects collected from tsunami-hit areas

After its season-opening gala “Thank You!” in February, Korea’s Universal Ballet Company is premiering a new piece choreographed by Spanish artist Nacho Duato. Titled “Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness,” the dance features well-known Baroque compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and aims to deliver the emotional essence of his music and important moments of the legendary composer’s life. Universal Ballet is the fifth troupe to perform the piece choreographed by Duato, following the Na

Stefan Kaegi of Rimini Protokoll talks about ‘100% Gwangju,’ documentary theater

NEW YORK (AP) ― It’s obvious from the first moments of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” that star Neil Patrick Harris is doing something special. And it’s not just trying on a new role. He is lowered to the stage in a jumpsuit and ferociously feathered blond wig and immediately begins the show’s first rock-punk song, getting down on all fours, grinding into the microphone stand or licking the guitarist’s strings. The crowd inside of the Belasco Theatre, where the show opened Tuesday, loses its mind,

Murder, betrayal, sex and vengeance ― no story shows the savage behavior that some humans succumb to in order to fulfill their ordained prophecies or the unrelenting grasp that evil can have on one’s soul like the power-hungry tale of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”“Let not light see my black and deep desires,” Shakespeare wrote in the depiction of Macbeth’s inner turmoil as he longed to murder the king and overtake his throne. Considered one of Shakespeare’s most diabolical and compelling trag

BROOKLINE, New Hampshire (AP) ― In the portrait, the little boy’s blue eyes twinkle as he looks straight ahead. His apple cheeks shine. There’s a gap in his teeth, and his reddish-brown hair is just slightly tousled. He’s an all-American boy. He’s Dick, of the illustrated “Dick and Jane” series that helped teach generations to read from the 1930s to the 1970s. He’s also Nancy Childress’ childhood neighbor and the model for the drawing by her father, Robert Childress, that along with Jane, Sally,

Danish artist Jesper Just exhibits films portraying women’s psychology