In an industry as opaque as art, the most reliable economic data can sometimes be the party budgets.
A connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture fooled buyers into purchasing chairs with fake royal pedigrees, authorities say. The distinct taste of licorice helped give him away.
With his engineering background, he thought about his work differently from how other artists did. His abiding interest was in energy, in the scientific sense.
The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age mansion reopens next month, bringing its world-famous collection of works by the likes of Vermeer and Rembrandt back on public view.
Users are lampooning government officials’ flippant discussions of a deadly assault with no apparent knowledge of the journalist in the room.
Curator Iris Moon knew she wanted to bring the voices of Asian-American women into Monstrous Beauty, and an audio guide provided the perfect platform.
Was it a crime? A prank? A work of art? A new documentary unveils the full story of an artist collective’s secret mall apartment, and other ephemeral actions.
In a pop-up exhibition in New York City this week, Elina Chauvet bookends Women’s History Month with a crucial call to end the cycle.
Linn’s camera doesn’t register her absence, but rather registers her solitariness from the world in which she is immersed.
Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian sits down with curator Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and critic Seph Rodney to discuss the unexpected intersections of art and athletics.
The actress is building a community of artists, thinkers and doers of all kinds, in a storied building in downtown Manhattan.
TUCKED AWAY IN THE TOCHIGI COUNTRYSIDE north of Tokyo, with minimal signage from the road, Takashi Kuribayashi’s most recent permanent outdoor installation is drawing art audiences out of the metropolis. Those with reservations for Oya Genkiro No. 6 must first enter a decommissioned stone quarry; I tentatively drove along an overgrown pathway until I arrived […]
The portrait was unveiled in 2019 and done by a local artist.
Visitors will pass through the planet’s core, exiting in the Olmec empire, with a side trip to Los Angeles.
The portrait of President Trump that he criticized as “truly the worst” was swiftly removed from the Colorado Capitol. The woman who painted it has remained silent.
The find sheds new light on the wealth and status of elites living in Northern Britain, as well as previously unknown trading connections with Europe.
The show will debut at SFMOMA in September before traveling to Minneapolis and Boston.
From swimming guillemots to sun-dappled Scots pines, the winners of this year's contest celebrate the diversity of Great Britain's animal life. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...
The designer announced his departure from Loewe last week.
Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-born photographer acclaimed for...
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The performing arts venue does not draw the attention or audiences it once did. Now it has lost another leader as it works to adjust to an uncertain future for cultural institutions.
The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, says a major museum is negotiating to buy it.
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