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The ‘Most Important Collection’ of Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes Goes to...
“Art is in my blood,” Argentine collector Claudia Quentin told Christie’s, which in just a few days will auction off one of the most exceptional collections of masterworks of Renaissance and Baroque...
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Artist Duo Orejarena & Stein On Simulations, Artistry and the Nature of Reality
Simulation theory became a hot topic a few years back when physicists started talking openly about how reality as we know it might be virtual and we all found out that the CIA was open to the...
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The Most Anticipated Art Museum Openings and Expansions of 2024
Last year, Dan Hicks writing for The Architecture Review about his book The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution asked the question, ‘Are museums obsolete?‘...
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The Noguchi Museum’s Amy Hau On Preserving the Artist’s Legacy and Building...
Last month, it was announced that Amy Hau would serve as the next director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, colloquially known as The Noguchi Museum, in Long Island City, Queens. The...
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Is Matthew Wong the 21st Century’s van Gogh?
“The Realm of Appearances,” the Matthew Wong retrospective currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, is full of ghosts. There’s the ghost of Wong himself, of course, who died by suicide in...
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Arts Travelogue: Finding Dali in Cadaqués
I recently went for a long walk, over several weeks, down the Costa Brava from Banyuls, France to Sitges in Spain. I walked with no particular destination and on no schedule, so when I ended up in...
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The Art of Mexico City, On and Off the Beaten Path
Avenida Paseo de la Reforma is the backbone of Mexico City, its tallest skyscrapers lining the boulevard like a great set of vertebrae, a spine occasionally punctuated by the chakras of enormous...
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Barbara Kruger Is Still Flipping the Bird
Until the late 1970s, making a zine was a labor of love and money. Love as in time spent assembling the thing—the cutting out, the sticking together. Money as in paying a service to print issues. By...
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Rhizome’s 7×7 Models a Deeper Collaboration Between Art and Science
The intersection of art and technology gets a lot of press these days. In any given headline, it might be the “next frontier.” Or where cultural innovation happens. On some days, it’s spawning new job...
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A Rare Rediscovered Banksy Heads to Auction
A rare work by Banksy, the elusive British artist famed for his humorous and at times political street art, is heading to auction years after it was rediscovered and rescued by a team of restoration...
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Paris 2024 Unveils Surprisingly Whimsical Posters for the Olympic and...
A surfing wave in Tahiti, a pair of breakdancers and some 40,000 hand-drawn figures—these are just some of what’s depicted in the official posters for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games, as...
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The Met Pays Tribute to New York’s Great Black Artists
Among New York neighborhoods, Harlem has long stood out for its immense impact on culture. Early in the Twentieth Century, it emerged as an epicenter of music, art, theater, literature and dining—the...
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One Fine Show: Irving Penn’s San Francisco Summer of Love
The other day, Page Six dropped a gossip item about the pressure Anna Wintour faces over TikTok’s sponsorship of the Met Gala, in light of the app’s recent ban, and I thought about how hard it would...
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Five Must-Visit Contemporary Art Museums in Shanghai
Rapidly evolving in the past decades, the contemporary scene in Shanghai boasts a great range of art venues today, including some prestigious museums and a solid group of art galleries, making the city...
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Cuban Artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello Is the Latest Addition to Pace Gallery’s...
Following a solo show at Pace in Seoul last September—and his big attention-grabbing moment that was his presentation at the Rubell Museum during last year’s Art Basel Miami—Alejandro Piñeiro Bello...
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Dutch Avant Garde Artist Jacqueline de Jong Dies at Age 85
Over her six-decade career, Duch artist Jacqueline de Jong has completely dedicated herself to exploring the narrative possibilities of figuration through her raw, surrealistic and extremely vivid...
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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Announces Photographer Toba Tucker as This...
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation just announced contemporary American photographer Toba Tucker as the recipient of its 2024 Lee Krasner Award, which is awarded annually to an individual in recognition...
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