58 stories by "Randy Kennedy"
Officials in Sharjah announced Wednesday that Jack Persekian, the director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, which runs the biennial, had been fired on orders from Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed al…
James McMullan -- whose illustrations were the visual inspiration for "Saturday Night Fever" -- is now known for the elegantly expressive show posters he makes for Lincoln Center Theater; th…
As part of the Festival of Ideas for The New City--a series of arts and civic events that the New Museum and several other downtown cultural institutions will conduct from May 4 through May …
Opponents of a plan to move the Barnes Foundation and its world-renowned art collection from a Philadelphia suburb to a downtown museum quarter asked a Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday to recon…
A nonprofit photo gallery in Vienna and a group of analog photography entrepreneurs announced Monday that they had acquired a collection of several thousand Polaroid prints by well-known art…
A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled against the artist Richard Prince in a closely watched copyright case, finding that Mr. Prince - who is well known for appropriating imagery created by…
A British art collector, Robert Wylde, filed suit Thursday in federal court in Manhattan against the Gagosian Gallery, contending that the gallery sold him a Mark Tansey painting without tel…
The artist known as JR, winner of the TED Prize, starts a photo-poster project.
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a five-artist collective, announced that on March 29 it would begin a five-week, 11-city tour.
The crossroads of the world becomes a sculpture garden.
State legislation that would have forced the University of Iowa to sell Jackson Pollock's "Mural" - an 8-by-20-foot painting valued at more than $100 million - to raise money for the school …
Egypt has reopened many of its museums and historical sites, which were hit by sporadic looting during the uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
The widely praised revival of "Molly Sweeney" will have an extended run with a new star. The Irish actress Simone Kirby will join the cast beginning March 9 until closing on April 10.
The widely praised revival of "Molly Sweeney" will have an extended run with a new star. The Irish actress Simone Kirby will join the cast beginning March 9 until closing on April 10.
Though he describes himself as a good friend of hers, the fashion and art photographer David LaChappelle claims in a suit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan that the pop star Rihanna…
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust announced that they had acquired a huge collection of the prints, negatives and letters of Robert Mapplethorpe, further stre…
China had requested that all artifacts in a show scheduled to open Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology not be exhibited.
Museums in Pittsburgh and Milwaukee (the closest to Green Bay) have made a bet on next Sunday's big game.
The Royal Shakespeare Company announces a lineup change.
The Royal Shakespeare Company announces a lineup change.
A boy on a rocking horse, to be followed by a rooster.
The street artist Shepard Fairey and The Associated Press have ended their long-running dispute surrounding the creation of the well-known campaign poster of Barack Obama.
Almost an acre of column-free gallery space is one feature.
Ms. True condemned Italian prosecutors for singling her out among museum antiquities specialists and for pursuing "groundless accusations that destroyed my reputation and career, while intim…
A bitter art-world legal battle over an allegedly fake Warhol piece might finally be going to trial after making its way through the New York courts for five years.
