The museum lost about 15,000 items " but its collection is huge, luminous, and important. "Art historians and archaeologists know how exceptional the collection is. But despite Baghdad's rel…
To put it bluntly, Russia is terrible for activists and artists. Both? Wow. So, for the ones who haven't fled the country, it's necessary to find new, creative ways to protest the repression…
In "Origami," a dancer scales a huge shipping container as it changes shape. The Point State Park performance is part of the arts festival.
.CHICO " Pieces of Paradise that became art at the hands of Shane Grammer, and the photos that captured them, filled the Museum of Northern California Art Friday evening. The museum hosted t…
In short: "Hers is an art of shape-shifting and disguise, artifice and camouflage. It draws on high and low culture: European and Hollywood films, 1950s television sitcoms, art history, high…
John Burroughs graduate Grant Kinch helped refurbish the work of Donald Behrens, now a resident at Aberdeen Heights in Kirkwood.
They sold money they printed themselves as art works, and used the funds to buy up £1.2 million of debt on the secondary market, where lenders sell bad debts. " The New York Times
The art world descends on Basel this week. Here's our guide to the artworks, people and trends
The French collector is sending 250 of his best works to auction
Removal of Katarzyna Kozyra's work part of latest salvo in culture war
"Indications are everywhere that this is a turning point for black artists. Collectors and museums are taking note, and prices are up. Every week brings news of black scholars being appointe…
No, the answer isn't merely "white" " for one thing, there are many whites to chose from (just go to Home Depot and check the paint chips) " and for some purposes, various shades of blue, gr…
One of Jeane Vogel's pet peeves is when people complain that a piece of art is overpriced. | Usually, she says, it stems from a lack of understanding about the process and products that go i…
"We have no children and no relatives we trust with money, so at a certain age we were thinking about what [our] legacy is and our bequest to the future."
Museum management said in a statement that "this auction allows us to deaccession a number of works in areas where we have significant breadth and depth and the proceeds will return to the A…
New York-based Brian Brooks writes a coda to his Harris Theater residency with a revisioning of his chaotic and complex "Terrain."
DeLap, whose finely finished pieces sit at the intersection of sculpture and painting, minimalism and abstract expressionism, was the first art professor hired at UC Irvine and influenced ma…
The art entrepreneur's career has ranged from Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1969 to Gilbert & George, Landy and Koons
"Diaspora in Bloom" is showing at the Art Ark Gallery for three weeks in June.
Or at least what we know about our history, and how we look at it. Check out two recent concerts that work as art, of course, and "as historical corrective, guided by a commitment to scrambl…
The museum, which opened on Staten Island in 1947 after the collector Jacques Marchais and a local Italian stone mason worked to find the right stone for a "traditional mountain feel," is in…
Zabriskie's New York gallery started in 1954 and closed in 2010; her Paris gallery was so beloved that when she closed it after a 21-year run in 1998, the city awarded her a Medal of Honor. …
In the planning for New York's Figment Arts Festival, moving from Governors Island to Roosevelt Island this year, "'Everything was fine,' Judith Berdy, a longtime resident said. 'And then ca…
Steve Slater: "This is nothing new, and it is not confined to the arts. We see the same pattern repeated again and again in fields like education, health and the police, all of which suffer …
Their works will be auctioned during the June 1 concert fundraiser at Joe's Pub.