This just isn’t the artist’s first Lego work; in 2014, he created Trace, a sequence that includes 176 Lego portraits of political prisoners. Spanning the size of a gallery wall, Water Lilies #1, a 50-foot-long Lego painting made up of 650,000 tiny components, is certainly one of the exhibition’s centerpieces. The work is a tribute to Monet’s well-known triptych depicting a lily pond in Giverny. My Heart is Flying to the Universe, a mirrored field with LED lighting, which is actually Art News an infinity room in a box, was offered for $3.29 million. This sale marked the first time that such an unconventional work, initially bought from David Zwirner, was publicly auctioned in Asia. Nan Goldin established PAIN, which is dedicated to putting pressure on museums, galleries, and academic institutions to refuse further presents from the Sacklers.
Gagosian’s longstanding collaboration with Lichtenstein and his widow, Dorothy Lichtenstein, has led …