ANDY WARHOL

Following a raid by the FBI where investigators seized the Orlando Museum of Art’s Basquiat exhibit, museum officials have announced a change in leadership.

Consumers, voters and employees all want “something real.” But what does that mean — and is it even desirable?

Customers thought they were buying iconic art for a steal. Prosecutors say the dealer was selling them fakes.

In Britain, there are several traditional elements to a royal anniversary: pageants, street parties, the Sex Pistols.

A complaint filed in South Florida federal court Thursday accuses Palm Beach art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz of mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in his alleged scheme to sell forged copies of high-end art. Bouaziz sold some of the forged art pieces for hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece, prosecutors said in a news release. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 7 Florida gallery owner busted for selling forged copies of high-end art piecesClaiming to be an art expert and an official appraiser, Bouaziz appraised the inauthentic artwork he sold to the victims at an increased rate, the FBI affidavit said. To give one example, the FBI says Bouaziz bought a Warhol reproduction print for $100 and sold it for $85,000. Bouaziz, according to the FBI, sold one of Warhol’s works called “Superman,” of which there were several versions, for just $25,000.

Sale of "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" smashed the record for the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction. The previous mark was $110 million, Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 painting "Untitled."

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe portrait fetches record $195M at auction The 1964 painting Shot Sage Blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol is visible in Christie's showroom in New York City on Sunday, May 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)NEW YORK — Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” a silk-screen image of actress Marilyn Monroe, set two records Monday when it fetched $195 million at a Christie’s auction in New York, the company said. It also became the most expensive 20th century piece sold at an auction, Christie’s said in a news release. >> PREVIOUS STORY: Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portrait could fetch record $200 million at auctionChristie’s said proceeds will benefit the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich, which offered the Warhol piece and several others during the 36-lot sale Monday. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 16 Photos: Marilyn Monroe through the years Here are some memorable photos of actress Marilyn Monroe through the years.

Warhol's "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" beat the record price for an American artwork at auction set by a Basquiat skull painting in 2017.

APTOPIX Shot Sage Blue Marilyn The 1964 painting Shot Sage Blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol is carried in Christie's showroom in New York City on Sunday, May 8, 2022. The auction house predicts it will sell for $200 million on Monday, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork to sell at auction. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) (Ted Shaffrey)NEW YORK — (AP) — Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive artwork by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction. It's also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took place. When the auction was announced earlier this year, they estimated it could go for as much as $200 million.

Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” has sold for a cool $195 million.

Andy Warhol's 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 million at Christie's Monday night, becoming the most expensive work of American art ever sold.

Warhol’s diaries, the subject of a new Netflix series, detail almost everything the artist did. But do they tell us anything about his art?

There is a sinister edge to Andy Warhol's pop art portraits of Marilyn Monroe, many produced in the months following her unexpected death.

Who was the artist behind the icon?

Supreme Court Andy Warhol FILE - In this 1976 file photo, pop artist Andy Warhol smiles in New York. The Supreme Court has agreed to review a copyright dispute involving works of art by Warhol and a photographer who took an image of the musician Prince that the works are based on. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (Richard Drew)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a copyright dispute involving works of art by the artist Andy Warhol that were based on a photograph of the musician Prince. The Supreme Court said it would review that ruling. The dispute the court agreed to hear is between the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which now licenses Warhol's works, and Goldsmith.

The Supreme Court has agreed to review a copyright dispute involving works of art by the artist Andy Warhol that were based on a photograph of the musician Prince.

NEW YORK — An iconic piece of Americana is headed for the auction block at Christie’s this May in New York, and it could also be headed for the record books. The 1964 Andy Warhol silk-screen of Marilyn Monroe, known as “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” could sell for as much as $200 million, making it the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at auction, The New York Times reported. According to the newspaper, the work is part of Warhol’s signature “Shot Marilyn” portrait series, so called after a “gun-toting visitor allegedly fired a shot into a stack of canvases in the artist’s studio in 1964. “The spectacular portrait isolates the person and the star,” Georg Frei, the foundation’s chairman, said in a prepared statement. All that remains is the enigmatic smile that links her to another mysterious smile of a distinguished lady, the Mona Lisa,” he added.

Sotheby’s auction house announced Friday that it will offer 30 works from the Macklowe Collection on May 16 in New York. After they split in 2016, a judge ordered the collection sold as part of the divorce settlement. Sculptures by Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Jeff Koons are also among the works on offer in the sale, the second from the Macklowe Collection. The first sale of 35 artworks in November netted $676 million -- the highest-ever total for a Sotheby’s auction. A public display of works from the May sale is planned at Sotheby’s in London from Tuesday until March 2.

Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and other modern masters are going up for auction as part of a billionaire couple’s acrimonious divorce.

The influential editor rose from an impoverished childhood in the segregated South to become one of the few African Americans on the mastheads and red carpets of the fashion world.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has returned from space with hopes of new celestial investments.

Dave Hickey, a prominent American critic whose essays covered topics ranging from Liberace to Norman Rockwell, has died.

The long-awaited documentary about the Velvet Underground is very good, but we had reason to expect more.

Todd Haynes’s documentary about the classic band spotlights how sound can challenge—and change—society.

The most often-repeated thing said about the Velvet Underground is Brian Eno’s quip that the band didn’t sell many records, but everyone who bought one started a band.

After a year off due to the pandemic, the lavish amfAR gala to raise money for AIDS and HIV research retuned in movie-star style Friday.

The most often-repeated thing said about the Velvet Underground is Brian Eno’s quip that the band didn’t sell many records, but everyone who bought one started a band.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — (AP) — An Andy Warhol canvas found years ago in the garage of rocker Alice Cooper could become the highest selling artwork ever in Arizona. The music legend, who has a home in metro Phoenix, announced Thursday that he would auction off “Little Electric Chair.”It will be up for bidding on Oct. 23 at an auction organized by the Larsen Gallery in Scottsdale. The red acrylic and silkscreen on canvas was part of Warhol's “Death and Disaster” series between 1964 and 1965. According to Cooper, the artwork was a birthday gift in the '70s from a girlfriend who was friends with Warhol. Cooper is known for outrageous makeup and performances and such hits as “School’s Out."

An Andy Warhol canvas found years ago in the garage of rocker Alice Cooper could become the highest selling artwork ever in Arizona.

An Andy Warhol canvas found years ago in the garage of rocker Alice Cooper could become the highest selling artwork ever in Arizona. It will be up for bidding on Oct. 23 at an auction organized by the Larsen Gallery in Scottsdale. The red acrylic and silkscreen on canvas was part of Warhol's “Death and Disaster” series between 1964 and 1965.

FILE - In this 1976 file photo, pop artist Andy Warhol smiles in New York. A federal appeals court sided with a photographer Friday, March 26, 2021, in her copyright dispute over how a foundation has marketed a series of Andy Warhol works of art based on her pictures of Prince. In a statement, Goldsmith said she was grateful to the outcome in the 4-year-old fight initiated by a lawsuit from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. “Over fifty years of established art history and popular consensus confirms that Andy Warhol is one of the most transformative artists of the 20th Century,” Nikas said in a statement. Ad“We feel compelled to clarify that it is entirely irrelevant to this analysis that “each Prince Series work is immediately recognizable as a ‘Warhol,’” the appeals court said.

(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)NEW YORK – The pandemic is turning this into a holiday shopping season like no other. And with more people shopping online, stores are doing double duty as shipping centers to try to get gifts to doorsteps as fast as possible. Meanwhile, Best Buy says that 340 of its stores are being specially designated to handle a higher volume of online orders, though all its stores ship e-commerce packages. Its goal: to have the 340 stores ship more than 70% of its ship-from-store units during the holiday quarter. Typically, 25% of holiday shopping is based on impulse, according to Marshal Cohen, chief industry advisor at NPD Group, a market research firm.

LOS ANGELES A Southern California man who authorities say tried to sell $6 million worth of phony paintings he claimed were created by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and other modern masters was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison. Philip Righter, 43, of West Hollywood was sentenced in a federal court in Miami after pleading guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and tax fraud, the U.S. attorney's office said. Righter was given 60 months in prison in a case that was filed in Los Angeles. The judge also handed down a five-year sentence in a Florida case in which Righter acknowledged trying to sell forgeries to the owner of a Miami art gallery. Richter sold the bogus artworks from 2016 through June of 2018, creating phony documents to back up his claims that they were genuine, prosecutors said.

The video spot includes animated cameos from people including Andy Warhol, who created pieces featuring the Beetle, and Kevin Bacon, whose "Footloose" character drove a Beetle. Volkswagen is saying goodbye to the Beetle, which ended production this year, in a new ad campaign called "The Last Mile." Volkswagen said in 2018 that it would be discontinuing the iconic Beetle compact car in 2019 as it looked toward a future with mass-market electric cars. The last Beetle rolled off the assembly line at a plant in Mexico in July, which Volkswagen de Mexico CEO Steffen Reiche said will now produce the Tarek SUV. The Volkswagen Beetle was the great equalizer for society and culture at large.

The music and art scene of New York City in the early 80s is the focus of, a film made by Andy Warhol compatriot Glenn OBrien. Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat plays a fictionalized version of himself as he wanders through the city looking for a place to sleep after getting evicted. Our small but mighty local team works tirelessly to bring you high-quality, uncensored news and cultural coverage of Central Florida. Unlike many newspapers, ours is free and we'd like to keep it that way, because we believe, now more than ever, everyone deserves access to accurate, independent coverage of their community. Whether it's a one-time acknowledgement of this article or an ongoing pledge, your support helps keep Orlandos true free press

David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris always go all out, and this year they were nothing short of innovative. The family is basically a walking portrait art museum -- with Harris as a self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh, Burtka as Salvador Dali, and their kids as self portraits of Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol. Hide Caption

Thieves stole valuable Andy Warhol prints from a Los Angeles business and replaced them with fakes. It was years before anyone noticed the theft. "48 Hours" Crimesider's Julia Dahl joins CBSN with more on the investigation.

Andy Warhol did not worry about fighting misconceptions; he preferred to quietly change art. The pop art pioneer used common household items and famous faces. But a new book reveals another side captured through the lens of his Polaroid camera. Anthony Mason reports on his visual diary that holds more than 700 Polaroids.

Warhol and Koons at Sotheby’s: Behind The Scenes Andy Warhol's Six Self Portraits and Jeff Koons' Popeye take in $58 Million. Sotheby's auctioneer Oliver Barker takes us behind the scenes as billionaire casino magnate, Steve Wynn pays $28 million for Popeye. Produced by Gilad Thaler.