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First Lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama joined with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to officially open the new Whitney Museum of American Art, now housed in a 220,000-square-foot building set beside the Hudson River at the foot of the High Line elevated park in the Meatpacking District.

The official announcement of the Foundation’s establishment was made on 30 April 2015. The press conference led by its President, Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands, was focused on the Foundation's mission, goals, future and current activities.

Time Capsule Collection of Unseen Masterworks led by two re-discovered Francis Bacon Self-Portraits to be offered across Sotheby’s worldwide salesrooms this summer “Figure and Form: Works from an Important Private Collection”.

El Anatsui has received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia – All the World’s Futures. The decision was made by the Board of Directors of la Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta, former minister in the Italian government, upon recommendation of the Curator of the 56th International Art Exhibition Okwui Enwezor.

Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will offer two masterworks from the collection of renowned publisher and art collector, Benedikt Taschen.

The design for the luxury high-rise hotel was created by Morphosis Architects. Since its founding in 1972 by design director Thom Mayne, Morphosis has received 25 Progressive Architecture awards, over 100 American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards, and numerous other honors.

In its 2015 edition, SP-ARTE will present cutting edge works alongside classic masters to bring to Sao Paulo the best of Brazilian and international artists and galleries. With 23 new participating galleries and 91 returning galleries some of the highlights include Ângela Ferreira Pacheco, Galeria Filomena Soares; Hans Art, Michael Werner Gallery; Armando Andrade Tudela, Galeria Fortes Vilaça; Marcel Duchamp, Galerie 1900 - 2000; William Kentridge, Galleria Lia Rumma, Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery etc.

Marek Bartelik, President of AICA International, about art criticism today: "In the era of growing presence of social media, art criticism is often either reduced to a type of entertainment or it takes the form of heavy-duty academic writing. I would like to see more “grassroots” criticism, with a global outreach, written in language accessible to as many readers as possible, and, of course, with a greater diversity of voices than we have today."

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing a man who has over the years received the applause of his audience with grace and humility – even as the applause and ovations get louder and longer. At 90 years old, Armenian-born Charles Aznavour is an icon in the world of music.

Peter Demetz, who lives and works in Italy, uses lime wood to create incredibly life-like figures set against neutral, minimal backgrounds. The detailing of his works push his chosen material, wood, to its maximum potential, achieving the illusions of movement and warmth.

Sotheby's is delighted to hold an auction celebrating New York City.

Clive Head, one of the leading British painters of his generation, is recognized for his urban realist paintings, which depict the common urban environment, like entrances to the London Underground or the scene of a simple café, as well as cityscapes from some the most well known destinations in the world like New York, Moscow, Prague, Rome, Paris, and, of course, his favorite city London.

Pablo Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) will be among the star lots featured at Christie’s New York this Spring.

On 12 May 2015 Sotheby’s New York will present Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 comic book masterpiece The Ring (Engagement) in the Contemporary Art Evening Sale. Estimate in the region of $50 million.

As the wave of destruction and violence continues to run rampant through Iraq and Syria, Artdependence Magazine will talk to as many actors as possible, individuals who have some involvement or knowledge on these issues.

The Blanton Museum of Art has announced that it will acquire and construct Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, a 73 x 60 foot stone building to be sited on the grounds of the Blanton at The University of Texas at Austin.

Albert Serra will present Singularity, a project commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull as the Catalan participation at Venice Biennale, curated by Chus Martínez. The filmmaker previewed this in-development project in London in occasion of his retrospective at Tate Modern.

Following our interview with Michael Benson, director of Photo London, the first edition of which will take place May 21-24 at Somerset House, we asked several galleries to share with us their views on the future of photography, both as an art and as a contemporary medium of self-expression, whose popularity and accessibility has only become more prevalent.

The Andy Warhol Museum is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Its collection consists of the artist’s entire estate – hundreds upon hundreds of prints, tapes, sculptures, photographs, and every other work in any other medium that Warhol incorporated in his artistic practices.

In 1990 Eileen Kaminsky began her journey into art collecting. Her passion for art turned into a passion for artists, and collecting became less an assemblage of works and more an interaction, a relationship, with artists. This inspired her to establish the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation.