"Art doesn't unite," Vogel has said. You can't count on art to change the world " the renaissance of artists, especially Jewish artists, during the Weimar Republic was followed by the Third …
People think that to appreciate jazz you have to take ten years of music theory. Really, jazz or any kind of improvisational music, when done right, is simply a conversation without words. I…
Inside the 25-year journey of Patrick Dunning's The Signature Project---The Signature Project, currently running at the Sheen Center, was never meant to be onstage. The brainchild of Dublin-…
Nonprofits generally don't create their own elaborate art to rally more community support. Most have limited budgets, which necessitates putting time, money, and effort into programming firs…
"Sexual harassment, various instances of discrimination and retaliation are among the top complaints, according to these employees. They describe supervisors who are inept at scheduling, a w…
"MarÃa Inés RodrÃguez, the director of the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, was called into a town hall meeting last Tuesday, March 6, during which she was informed that her art…
"Working largely out of the artistic limelight at her home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., Ms. Stein resurrected historical weaving techniques and merged them with 20th-century Bauhaus design sen…
Martin Gammon explains why the estimates some people use of the money that could be gained from deaccessioning are likely way, way off and couldn't raise enough money to do any good.
"Previously, valuable works of art created fewer than 50 years ago were officially treated as 'luxury goods' and subject to 30% import dues. This changed on 29 January with the passing of a …
The NRA's visual logic suggests a new twist in the culture wars. Cities, today, are thriving, and the old rhetoric of the city as a kind of cancer spreading into the heartland no longer work…
A lot of what makes physical art valuable is its scarcity " there are only so many paintings by Mark Rothko, after all. But digital art has always been different because it can be perfectly …
The feverish nature of the art market during the Second World War, and ever since, offers at least one straightforward reason for both the Nazi art theft itself and for why items have never …
Sickeningly, the Nazi-looted art led to a boom in the global art market from 1941 onward. They stole so very, very much art to fund the war effort: "In the decade leading up to 1945, it's es…
In the middle of a 700,000-woman demonstration on International Women's Day, the collective Nosotras Proponemos ("We Propose") presented a manifesto of 37 demands. "Out of the 47 major exhib…
Thanks to the skillful portraits and drawings he made for guards, officers, and commandants, he survived seven different concentration camps, and ultimately received a scholarship to study a…
Artist William Pope.L has recently been featured in The New York Times for his "Flint Water Project," an installation that he did for the Detroit gallery What Pipeline.The gallery has b…
"Laurence des Cars is an anomaly in the male-dominated world of French museums. Since March 2017, she has been running the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, with its envied collection of French 19th-…
Now approaching its fourth year, the Wall to Wall Street Art Festival held over the Labour Day Long Weekend has cemented itself as a world-class street art festival and has put Benalla on th…
