Why contemporary art is having a fit of nostalgia
Art fairs and gallerists are looking back to the idealism of the 1960s as a remedy for today's excesses
Art fairs and gallerists are looking back to the idealism of the 1960s as a remedy for today's excesses
A handsome exhibition traces how the French sculptor's obsession with the Parthenon Marbles informed his work
Before he said his prayers, Raul Mejia would write the word 'love' in the condensation on his shower window. He had grown depressed over the state of his country when … Click to Contin…
The Acceptance in Lieu panel decides whether owners of artworks, including archives, can reduce their inheritance tax bill
Noah Charney's premise is fairly uncontroversial: He argues that our understanding of art history is skewed by survivorship bias and that to understand the art we still have, it's critica…
"Major event" exhibitions like the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors show and the traveling David Bowie Is show "achieve two important goals for any museum: They increase attendance, and they in…
Artsy is helping art fairs " and galleries " to reach younger buyers
Just last September, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) opened in a repurposed grain silo on the Cape Town waterfront. And just last week, the Norval Foundation, funded by r…
And with its plethora of fairs, New York's art week has something for buyers at every level
"As a system, art fairs are like America: They're broken and no one knows how to fix them. Like America, they also benefit those at very top more than anyone else, and this gap is only growi…
A special exhibition brings together six African artists foregrounding women's perspectives in diverse ways
"During [his] tenure as art director, Playboy won hundreds of awards for illustration and graphic design and influenced the visual appearance of scores of other magazines and newspapers. ...…
Picasso and Matisse among 1,500 works in 'sale of the century'
Seth Numrich plays a founder of the antiestablishment art movement in Travesties---Initially, actor Seth Numrich wasn't sure what to make of rehearsals for Roundabout Theatre Company's Broad…
Brooklands motor circuit and Tate St Ives among those on award shortlist
The Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, Virginia, invites nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director.Â
Tanztheater, or "dance theater," is a post-World War I expressionist art form originating in Germany and Austria which blends dance and theatrical techniques. Ellyzabeth Adler studied tanzth…
"Over a career that spanned seven decades Shay pointed his lens at Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King, John. F. Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway - to name a few - for Life, Time…
"The aim of the new rules, first proposed in 2016 in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal, is to increase transparency around financial transactions and require banks and vendors to verify …
The controversial show is based on the 2010 tagging of the Art Institute of Chicago by an underground graffiti crew.
"The decision to do this rests very strongly on my commitment to rewrite the postwar canon," Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford told artnet News. And while institutions sel…
Meural is one of the more notable startups in the digital art subscription space. For hardware that is ultimately just a high-end digital photo frame, the companies are more focused on the i…
Producers Carmen Pavlovic Global Creatures and Roy Furman have revealed new poster art for Broadway's King Kong by internationally renowned artists Laurent Durieux, Francesco Francavilla and…
It was the year hippy idealism gave way to riot and struggle " with protests in Paris, tanks in Prague and black power in the US. Guardian writers pick the pivotal works from that tumultuous…
"Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has given Jacob's Pillow the extraordinary opportunity to bring so many precious objects from our collection into the light and we are excited to have …