Sexy, weird, and selling for top dollar: why John Currin’s controversial paintings are suddenly back on every collector’s wish list. art, John Currin, exhibition - Foto: THN You scroll past cute dogs ...

Porn, Old Masters, and ultra-glam faces: John Currin’s paintings are both scandal and status symbol. Here’s why collectors pay big money and why you keep seeing his work everywhere. John, Currin, Back ...

John Currin is so famous, so rich, so talented, it is a challenge to even want to write about his paintings. Shouldn't the effort go to those who are less fortunate? Alas, his latest work on view at ...

Around 1998, John Currin began his rise to the top of every collector’s wish list and commenced his descent into slick, fussy, quasi–Northern Renaissance academicism. Before this, Currin’s work had ...

Keep in mind that the John Currin retrospective, now at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, is not actually called “Welcome to the Boom Boom Room.” It’s just hard not to think of it ...

Left: Artist John Currin with Uma Thurman. Right: The Red Party. (All photos: Linda Yablonsky) WHENEVER THE CONTEMPORARY AUCTIONS draw nigh, New York galleries greet the influx of collectors as if it ...

Around 1998, John Currin began his rise to the top of every collector`s wish list and commenced his descent into slick, fussy, quasi-Northern Renaissance academicism. Before this, Currin`s work had ...

What is there left to say about John Currin? He’s talented, savvy, and not averse to a bit of controversy. Yet he continues to surprise in a way that’s specifically his own. In Currin’s world art ...

Mario Testino Comes HomeThe salon-style, Mario Testino–curated exhibition “At Home” opened yesterday at Yvon Lambert to a crowd of hipsters, models, art world royalty (Rachel Feinstein! John Currin!), ...