The US State Department’s Arts in Embassies program recently announced a collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum through a new long-term loan of Gene […]
Category: Culture & Arts
How Gallery Mor Charpentier Built Sustainable Success Amid Market Turmoil and Global Change
In the heart of the Marais, Kader Attia’s kinetic sculptural installation is gently undulating with haunting synchronicity. It has been a decade since the conceptual […]
Three-armed robot conductor makes debut in Dresden | Germany
She’s not long on charisma or passion but keeps perfect rhythm and is never prone to temperamental outbursts against the musicians beneath her three batons. […]
Post-Prime Day Tech Deals for Artists from Amazon, Walmart, and More
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. Although Amazon’s second Prime […]
The Met’s Record-Setting Price for a Very Small Painting
Duccio di Buoninsegna, better known simply as Duccio, is known as a pivotal artist in the western canon. But only a dozen or so of […]
The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently? | Philosophy
At around midday on 19 August 1949, wreathed in thick mist, a British European Airways DC-3 going from Belfast to Manchester flew into a hillside […]
Audience Report: Gongs and Goodbyes as the Rubin Museum Shuts Its Doors
In a statement, the Rubin said it opposes the trafficking of stolen or looted cultural items, has not knowingly acquired looted objects and remains committed […]
32 Iconic Masterpieces of Surrealism, Ranked
In the summer of 1924, the roses of France turned a shade of blue. Wood became glass, and words transfigured into beings, rapping at windows […]
Got a Note for the Next U.S. President? Sheryl Oring Will Turn Your Message Into Art
It was a gorgeous fall weekend afternoon, warm and sunny, with a light breeze down at South Street Seaport in New York. But in her […]
“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots ‹ Literary Hub
Since reading Naomi Kanakia’s essay, “Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money,” I’ve been recalling how often, nearly fifty years ago, Ray […]
Judge Makes Call on Basquiat Painting at Center of Philbrick Scandal
Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still […]
British Museum Shows Off Its Peerless Collection of Picasso Prints
Pablo Picasso’s first permanent address in Paris was a Montmartre squat. Nicknamed the Washhouse Boat because the tenement building swayed and groaned in foul weather, […]
Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds | Neuroscience
It was a truth known to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell back in 1968, but now scientists have caught up with them: there really ain’t […]
What Did the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Buy in 2024?
While much has been said—and written—about the state of the art market, that hasn’t affected the purchasing decisions of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors who […]
Museum Elevator Technician Accidentally Throws Out Alexandre Lavet Artwork
Sometimes, even museum workers aren’t sure where the art ends and the real world begins. Case in point? The LAM museum in Lisse, the Netherlands, […]
Painting found by junk dealer in cellar is original Picasso, experts claim | Pablo Picasso
A painting that was found by a junk dealer while he was clearing out the cellar of a home in Capri, and was regularly decried […]
A Nepali Artist Revives Once-Dying Craft Industries With His Practice
At Art Basel Hong Kong this past March, the Nepali artist Tsherin Sherpa unveiled his latest installation, a 30-foot-long runner woven by artisans from Kathmandu […]
Artbo Marks 20 Years in Bogotá, Celebrating Colombian Creativity From Geometric Minimalism to A.I. Art
Walking into the Ágora Bogotá convention center to the sight of the blown-out husk of a car didn’t exactly signal a typical art fair experience. […]