Andy Warhol
Klimt painting breaks modern art record with $366m sale, but gold toilet ‘America’ gets flushed
After 20 minutes of bidding, the 180-centimetre work by the Austrian master became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction, but a 101-kilogram useable gold loo failed to live up to the hype.
- Michael Koziol
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‘We’re probably safer than the Louvre’: The country town that’s hosting Andy Warhol
Gallery curator Lizzy Galloway had the Pop Art legend’s soup cans on her artistic shopping list as she played “billionaire for the day”: and she got one.
- Fiona Carruthers
Raised by single women who had to leave bad men, Debi Mazar beat the odds
The New York It girl and best friend of Madonna hustled her way to Hollywood. Now, she’s set to star in a homegrown series that packs a feminist punch.
- Steve Dow
42 things the Brisbane Times team loved about Brisbane in 2023
From Lang Park to the stages of QPAC, a lot of good things happened this year.
- Cameron Atfield, Kristen Camp, Alex Condon, Brittney Deguara, Nick Dent, Jocelyn Garcia, Courtney Kruk, Tony Moore, Rosanna Ryan and Matt Shea
Andy Warhol art pops over to Western Australia
Works by pop art master Andy Warhol worth $148 million are heading to Perth, in the biggest loan so far under a federal government plan to share the national art collection.
- Liz Hobday
I’m 72 - I’m nothing but regrets: being Fran Lebowitz
The New York satirist and writer lives without a computer or a mobile phone, yet is one of our sharpest and funniest social commentators.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Tricks to bagging bargains (and a Warhol) at Sydney’s biggest art fair
Fears of recession are unlikely to put off Australia’s well-heeled art collectors from snapping up million-dollar artworks for sale at Sydney Contemporary.
- Linda Morris
Fame is power: Andy Warhol’s embarrassing pictures of the rich and famous
Had Warhol been alive today he would enjoy one of the biggest social media followings on the planet and be the star of a popular reality TV show.
- John McDonald
An enigma in plain sight: The more I learn about Warhol, the less I understand him
Though best known for his paintings, a new exhibition shows Andy Warhol was a prolific photographer, capturing his celebrity friends in candid detail.
- Elizabeth Flux
How Australian art galleries are responding to climate change protests
Security is an eight-letter word rarely spoken about by galleries and museums but the latest climate change protests have its leaders worried.
- Linda Morris