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Pioneering Artist’s Nephew Warring With Fam Over Her Legacy

‘GRABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM’

Private equity firm founder Frederick Iseman claims his own family kicked him off the board of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation after he called out their “self-dealing.”

Emily Shugerman | Published Nov 08, 2023

Mondrian Painting Has Been Hanging Upside Down for 75 Years

‘IT WAS VERY OBVIOUS’

It may now be too late to hang it the right way up, an expert warned.

Dan Ladden-Hall | Published Oct 28, 2022

It’s Time We Break Up the Art Boys Club Once and for All

HE MAN WOMEN HATERS CLUB

Researching a biography of the flamboyant AbEx painter Sam Francis, Gabrielle Selz discovered what a self-mythologizer he was and the male-dominated art world that enabled him.

Gabrielle Selz | Published Oct 26, 2021

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Million-Dollar Art Heist From a Bohemian Drinking Den

FOR ART’S SAKE

The Colony Room, beloved by artists from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, was a byword for debauchery. But when it closed, a million dollars worth of art vanished off its walls.

Tom Sykes | Published Sep 15, 2020

Vaughan Oliver, Iconic 4AD Album-Cover Designer, Dead at 62

VISIONARY

The artist was behind the look of The Pixies’ “Doolittle” and “Trompe Le Monde,” and The Breeders’ “Last Splash.”

Barbie Latza Nadeau | Published Dec 30, 2019

Super-Rich Go Shopping For Art at Frieze—and Find Dick Pics

FOR ART'S SAKE

The international art fair is at Randall's Island in New York City this weekend. A peek inside Frieze's huge tent reveals expensive art, a phallic fixation—and a lot of selfies.

Alaina Demopoulos | Published May 03, 2019

There’s a Lot of Art at Armory Week, and Even More Money

Buy Me

There are some beautiful works of art at the Armory Show and New York's other art fairs. But you will also become extremely aware of the extravagant lives of the super-rich.

David Freedlander | Published Mar 09, 2019

What Made Robert Rauschenberg Throw His Art Into a River

Lost Masterpieces

At the end of a show in Italy, Robert Rauschenberg, faced with a stinging critique and steep shipping costs to move his works back home, threw all of it into the Arno River.

Allison McNearney | Published Feb 16, 2019

When Rauschenberg Erased a de Kooning

Lost Masterpieces

The artist Robert Rauschenberg thought destroying a work by Willem de Kooning was ‘not a negation, it’s a celebration.’ The art world was divided.

AD BY The Daily Beast | Published May 13, 2017

Why It’s So Hard to Spot a Fake Rothko

UNREAL

Former gallery owner Ann Freedman is in court accused of selling fake Rothkos for millions—and using false citations to authenticate them.

Lizzie Crocker | Published Feb 05, 2016

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