Entertainment & Arts
Artworks by Barnett Newman and Gerhard Richter set auction records
May 15, 2013
A painting by Barnett Newman set an artist record at auction on Tuesday, selling for $43.8 million in New York.
A new survey examines the paintings of Barnett Newman, who rebelled against the established order of his time.
March 27, 2002
Outside the arts community, people often say they have trouble finding meaning in Abstract Expressionist painting.
March 29, 1990
In her article about the art exhibition “Too Jewish?”
Feb. 9, 1997
California
On the day after their 1-day strike in the Anaheim Union High School District, about 300 teachers tried to crowd into a meeting of the board of trustees, and the ones who made it almost got themselves thrown out.
May 12, 1989
A New York sculptor at mid-career, Robert Murray is a former protege of David Smith and Barnett Newman, and he cut his artist’s teeth wrestling with the problems posed by Cubism.
Feb. 6, 1987
Canada’s National Gallery Panned: Canada’s National Gallery has been panned by the national culture czar for spending too much on an American abstract painting.
March 14, 1990
Imagine Santa Barbara lagoons.
Dec. 11, 1987
Insider trader scandals on Wall Street lately suggest a morality where anything is OK if everyone is doing it.
May 22, 1987