Sotheby’s Sold a Sculpture of Kate Moss for $370,000 at Its First All-Gold...
Sotheby's sold a sculpture of Kate Moss at its first all-gold auction. Also up for grabs: a 1977 gold-painted Ferrari.
View Article7 Bizarre Things We Learned From the New Frankenstein Exhibition
Mary Shelley was only 20 in 1818 when she published her novel 'Frankenstein' and that's far from the most remarkable thing about this monstrous tale.
View ArticleSotheby’s Halloween Auction of ‘The Mummy’ Movie Poster Will Break Records
Even at the low estimate of $1 million, Sotheby's auction of a 1932 'The Mummy' movie poster will be the most expensive sold. But it's not surprising this title will be taken by a horror movie.
View ArticleBright Like Neon: MoMA’s Bruce Nauman Show Pays Tribute to an Elusive...
Bruce Nauman has long been regarded as a rebel in the art world, but as MoMA's retrospective shows, at 76, he's now one of its role models.
View ArticleHelsinki’s Art-Crazy Hotel St. George Houses an Original Ai Weiwei—Plus 300...
Ai Weiwei’s 'Tianwu' floats from the lobby ceiling of Helsinki's glorious, newly renovated Hotel St. George.
View ArticleHorror Movies Like ‘Suspiria’ Have Been Borrowing From Artists’ Work for Years
'The Shining,' 'The Exorcist' and 'Hereditary' have all done it. 'Suspiria' is only the latest horror movie to "borrow" from an artist's work.
View ArticleThis Ugly Painting Made by a Robot Just Sold for $432,500
'The Portrait of Edmond Belamy,' which looks like a pixelated smudge, sold for $432,500 at Christie's, far higher than its $10,000 estimate.
View ArticleThe Creator of ‘Time’ Magazine’s Cover About US Gun Control Is French. Here’s...
'In France, where I come from, we don't have guns like that,' the artist who made 'Time' magazine's cover about gun control said.
View ArticleWe All Hate the Subway—So Why Are We So Obsessed With Instagram Accounts...
Instagram accounts like Subway Hands, Hot Dudes Reading and Subway Doodle are so popular you'd think we actually like taking public transit.
View ArticleFrom Controversial Cartoons to Political Purses, 5 Ways Artists are Getting...
Know how you're voting? Why not cary a neon, wearable art handbag that encourages others to get to the poles?
View ArticleQ&A: Painter Luc Tuymans Predicts Trump’s Reelection and Explains Why His...
Luc Tuymans predicts a second term for Trump and talks about how we came to be in this political climate at the opening of his new show, 'Sanguine,' at Milan’s Fondazione Prada.
View ArticleWhen Looted Antiquities Are Sold at Art Fairs, Who’s to Blame?
Looking at the issue of looted antiquities being sold at art fairs—who is to blame, how can buyers avoid it and what's the solution?
View ArticleWas Andy Warhol Sexist?
As the Whitney Museum opens its huge Andy Warhol retrospective, we take a look at the relationship between Warhol and women: his subjects, muses and friends.
View ArticleCan Going to a Museum Help Your Heart Condition? In a New Trial, Doctors Are...
Canadian doctors can now prescribe a trip to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, free of charge, for patients suffering from asthma, cancer, dementia, heart disease and other conditions.
View ArticleJulian Schnabel’s van Gogh Biopic Is an Unfinished Sketch of the Famed...
Willem Dafoe delivers a towering performance as Vincent van Gogh in an otherwise lackluster biopic directed by Julian Schnabel.
View ArticleThe Story Behind the David Hockney Pool Painting That Just Sold for $90.3...
The sale of David Hockney's masterpiece 'Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)' just broke records.
View Article20 Years On, It’s Time to Admit Our Rules for Handling Nazi-Looted Art Have...
Here's where they went wrong.
View ArticleBanksy’s New Miami Exhibition Might Wow Art Fair Crowds, but He Hates It
Banksy's controversial retrospective touches down in Miami, wooing Miami Art Week crowds and further annoying the artist.
View ArticleA Guide to All the Art References in ‘Never Look Away’—The Movie Inspired by...
From encountering 'degenerate art' as a boy to being influenced by artists like Joseph Beuys, here are all the art references in 'Never Look Away,' a new movie based on the life of Gerhard Richter.
View ArticleMeow Wolf Say They Don’t Care If Their Immersive Art Makes Money—But Can We...
A new documentary about the artist collective Meow Wolf shows how, funded by George R.R. Martin, they transformed an old bowling alley into a psychedelic fun house and found themselves with a cash cow.
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