In a radical shift of program, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa plans to sell off most of the 1,600 works of art in its fabled collection to focus on exhibitions and education…
 The art that is doing well in the market provides a place of escape from society. Right now, that's an escape to rules and boundaries and to easily digestible culture. But the inverse is…
A new scholarly paper focusses on early Christian artwork that, it argues, depicts women as priests and even bishops. "These images are especially important because of our limited evidence f…
The answer has very little to do with game days and much more to do with ringing money out of the spaces in the off season. Art suggests high-end. And a high-end vibe, these stadiums hope, w…
My tastes have always been everywhere and all over, whatever the time of year. But there is a seasonal connection for me " some books, movies, and music are inseparable from the season in wh…
Interested in the work of a socially engaged contemporary artist committed to art's capacity to raise awareness and instigate change? Then go and experience Quilty at Brisbane's Gallery of M…
Artist Donna Huanca uses semi-nudes to claim space in what she says is still a very male space. "I'm trying to distort the male gaze, to have it be so powerful that it reflects back in a dif…
Well … it's an important piece of cultural history. "This provocative show about domestic tastes was a landmark in changing national attitudes " and especially the section of it the newspa…
Both of these reservoirs of dark matter"trophy works destined for museum accession or philanthropic donation and unsold inventory"serve to keep prices afloat and maintain artificial scarcity…
★★★★ David Cale's one-man show is a moving memoir of horrors and escape, with songs
The post We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time: Flying Away, Through Art app…
The initiative is a socially engaged art project that pays people who wouldn't otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution, flipping the script b…
Director Jo Bonney, star Kate del Castillo, and playwright Isaac Gomez discuss exploring the Juárez murders and how the play's structure translates to Audible after its Off-Broadway run.
Over 9 years ago I wrote about a TED Talk given by Golan Levin where he was demonstrating technology that being used to generate images based on sound input. The things he was doing was fun …
For museums determined to build collections of today's contemporary art"which is also getting pricey, as works by women and artists of color steadily gain in value""it's a waiting game."Â …
In March the Brazilian president posted a video clip shot at a gay street party during São Paulo's Carnival, tweeting, "We have to expose the truth so the population are aware of their pr…
"Over the course of his tenure as our founding director, Peter transformed BAMPFA from a modest university art collection into the internationally renowned art and film institution it is tod…