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It was only after her death that the American artist Louise Bourgeois became a true contemporary art superstar. To understand who she was and how her world came about you have to read the excellent biography – the fruit of a tremendous amount of work – by art historian Marie-Laure Bernadac.

The history of the Italian Renaissance resembles a virtuosic acrobatics show, in which each great master climbs onto the shoulders of his predecessor in a tower reaching up to the sky. This pyramid of artists is revealed in its entirety in an exhibition of 120 works primarily dedicated to a relatively unknown yet key creator in fifteenth-century Italy, Andrea del Verrocchio.

Erskine, Hall & Coe are delighted to exhibit a diverse body of work by John Ward, which is presented as a celebration of his career spanning nearly five decades.

With texts by curator Sérgio Mah, Marco Bene, François Piron, Joël Vacheron and Sophie Cavoulacos, this Métal Hurlant publication accompanies the eponymous site-specific exhibition of Portuguese artist Alexandre Estrela.

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) worked on his Seascapes Series from the end of the 1960s up until 1998 and this exhibition will be the first to present a broad variety of these works.

Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra—the first sound-based performance exhibition commissioned by The Met—is composed of 32 objects from The Met collection—sculptures, utilitarian containers, and decorative works—that together form a musical instrument.

Extensive new information is now posted online about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's upcoming exhibitions.

Sculpture sells for $91,075,000 as Koons becomes world’s most expensive living artist; 1964 Rauschenberg breaks record at $88,805,000; Post-War and Contemporary Art sales total $631,949,875 across the season.

The exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955–60, which opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 20, 2019, will feature printed and woven textiles, wallpapers, and mahogany vases from the line, many of which were recently acquired for The Met collection.