FBI Recovers Painting Stolen by Nazis From Upstate New York Museum
'Winter' by Gari Melchers was owned by a former president of the of the Beech-Nut Packing Company and had been in the Arkell Museum for decades.
View ArticleQ&A: Kate Hoffman, CEO of Spacey, on Breaking Down the Barriers to Investing...
Can the direct-to-consumer, online brand model work for buying fine art as well? Former TV exec Kate Hoffman has staked everything on it.
View Article‘Art for Tibet’ Auction Expands Into an Exhibition, With Work by Shepard Fairey
It may not be one of his more well-known causes, but Fairey showed his dedication to Students for a Free Tibet in a statement about the importance of this event.
View ArticleAnicka Yi Releases a Perfume Line Evoking the Scents of History-Making Women
Scents like 'Radical Hopelessness,' a sweet, earthy fragrance based on the pharaoh Hatshepsut, will be released in a limited quantity through Dover Street Market.
View ArticleFélix Vallotton Painted the Hidden Lives of the Bourgeoisie
A new Met exhibition looks at the work of Félix Vallotton, who started out mocking the bourgeoisie before making them the subject of his deeply poetic paintings.
View ArticleGagosian to Show Supernatural Works by H.R. Giger, the Artist Behind ‘Alien’
Curated by director Harmony Korine, one might even accuse Gagosian gallery of getting into the Halloween spirit with this off-the-wall exhibition.
View ArticleAlma Thomas Painting Formerly Belonging to Bill Cosby Expected to Break...
'A Fantastic Sunset' is expected to sell for between $2.2 million to $2.8 million.
View ArticleStreet Artist B.D. White Expands the Scope of the Stencil
White's new paintings use up to 200 stencils and can take a thousand hours to create.
View ArticleSotheby’s Replaces CEO With Longtime Ally of New Owner Patrick Drahi
Former CEO Tad Smith oversaw a turbulent period for the auction house that included significant fluctuations in sales returns.
View ArticleBill Traylor’s Outsider Art Found a Devoted Admirer in William Louis-Dreyfus
David Zwirner gallery will show Traylor's abstracted figures, which the artist began making in his mid 80s after being born into slavery in 1853.
View ArticleArtists Protest MoMA’s New Gallery Named for Trustee With Ties to Epstein
The Guerrilla Girls took to Twitter, requesting the trustees in question be immediately removed from MoMA's board.
View ArticleHow Did These Ancient Syrian Artifacts End Up at the Met? A Candid Exhibition...
The Met will show the stone artifacts from the ancient site Tell Halaf, explaining the long journey they took to end up in the museum's collection.
View ArticleFor His First Public Sculpture, George Condo Matched His Concept With Its...
'Constellation of Voices' is not only about the power of human voice, but the democratizing effect of welcoming everyone into this space.
View ArticleCristina Salmastrelli of Pulse Art Fair Has Seen a Recent Rise in Emotional...
Fair director Cristina Salmastrelli reports that at Pulse, 50 percent of the buyers are following their hearts, rather than market trends.
View ArticleThese Paintings Inspired Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Adaptation
To get a sense of the period, Gerwig studied post-Civil War American art, paying special attention to disgruntled women in domestic settings.
View ArticleDoris Salcedo Receives $1 Million as First Recipient of World’s Biggest Art...
Salcedo said that winning the Nomura Art Award would allow her to move forward quickly with an important project.
View ArticleNew Sotheby’s Owner Patrick Drahi Aims to Cut $66 Million in Costs
Drahi has a lot of experience with pulling off acquisitions, but whether an auction house can succeed like a telecom company remains to be seen.
View ArticleNew York Gets Its Own Version of Anish Kapoor’s ‘Bean’—But With a Difference
Chicago's Millennium Park serves as a perfect space for crowds of selfie-takers to mill about. How will that go down on this residential NYC street?
View ArticleKeanu Reeves Is the Latest Celebrity to Date an Artist: LA-Based Alexandra Grant
Reeves and Grant were first linked as artistic collaborators after she contributed hazy ink drawings to his overly-somber book of poetry.
View ArticleNicolas Party Is Painting Pastels on Everything From Museum Walls to Hospital...
Nicolas Party transformed the Flag Foundation into a pastel-colored universe, and he’s about to do the same for a children’s hospital in LA.
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