In His Next 6-Hour Performance, Miles Greenberg Wants His Audience to Sense...
'I'm really obsessed with places of worship and what they do to the human body,' says Greenberg. For his next performance at Perrotin, the artist will try to evoke a sense of the divine.
View ArticleJeff Bezos Is Buying Art Now—What Does That Mean for Amazon?
Is the Amazon CEO just looking to decorate a home with these multi-million dollar paintings, or is it part of a bigger strategy?
View ArticlePoland’s Conservative Crackdown Targets Museums—And the People Running Them
Alicja Knast refused to allow the country's conservative ruling party to host an event in the Silesian Museum. Months later, she has been fired by a Polish governmental body.
View ArticleArtist Shantell Martin Takes Over Times Square Billboards to Ask, ‘Who Are You?’
Shantell Martin's recognizable black and white line drawings featuring dashes, stick figures and curly cartoons take over Times Square to encourage viewers to look inward.
View ArticleHow the $760 Billion Art Industry Could Change if Women Were Given Equal...
The popular argument that 'women don't sell' crumbles when you examine the facts.
View ArticleAn Art Critic Accidentally Destroyed a Gabriel Rico Sculpture and His Gallery...
Rather than apologizing for the incident, the critic, Avelina Lésper, has instead been making jokes about the destruction.
View ArticleBeyoncé’s Next Project Will Draw From Her Mom’s World-Class Art Collection
Her mom dropped a hint about the new project in a recent interview, and it tracks with Beyoncé's love of artists like Pipilotti Rist, Kerry James Marshall and Kara Walker.
View ArticleAdam Pendleton’s ‘Who Is Queen?’ Will Explore Black Dadaism With Daily Events...
Transforming MoMA's atrium into a theatrical stage, Pendleton's installation will hold live daily events featuring contributors such as poet Susan Howe and theorist Judith Butler.
View ArticleAi Weiwei Is Now Selling Direct-to-Consumer Sculpture That You Can Assemble...
The work, which Ai Weiwei made of high-visibility safety jackets, will be sold by a German home improvement store. Its popularity remains to be seen.
View ArticleEric Doeringer Is Bringing His ‘Bad Copies’ of Famous Art to the Felix LA Art...
Doeringer refers to his art as 'bootlegs,' and for this show, he's selling some very affordable copies of the work on view at LA's Broad Museum.
View ArticleThis Image of Fighting Mice Is the People’s Choice for Wildlife Photograph of...
Photographer Sam Rowley captured the image by lying on the floor of a London Underground station every night for a week.
View ArticleHow the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Went $100 Million Over Budget
A Renzo Piano-designed space, alterations to the theater design and renovations to a preexisting structure all contributed to a $100 million overspend that has left museum leadership scrambling.
View ArticleLuxury Apartment Residents Want Tate Modern Visitors to Stop Staring at Them
Residents of the luxury Neo Bankside development claim that the Tate Modern should be responsible for altering a viewing platform that allows visitors to see into their apartments.
View ArticleWhat’s Revealed Through Reuniting van Eyck’s Masterpieces in Ghent
State-of-the-art security allows visitors to get closer than ever to Jan van Eyck's breathtaking miniatures and masterpieces in a blockbuster exhibition in Ghent that reunites his best works.
View ArticleBanksy Unveils Valentine’s Day Mural in His Hometown of Bristol
In honor of the holiday, the anonymous artist painted a girl firing a slingshot at an exploding bouquet of flowers.
View ArticleDamien Hirst Is Constructing a Chapel With a ‘Huge Bronze Arm Pointing to God’
The British contemporary artist has certainly never been known for subtlety.
View ArticleThe Key to Raphael’s Genius? His Way With People.
An striking ability to work the styles of his contemporaries and teachers into his own work, combined with a charm still remarked upon today, made Raphael an artist the world is still celebrating, even...
View ArticleBen Folds Is Trying to Get All the Candidates on the Record About Arts Funding
'It's notable that when candidates for public office speak on issues, the arts almost never come up,' Folds said. Ahead of the 2020 election, Ben Folds is trying to get all the democratic hopefuls to...
View ArticleHow a Pennsylvania Museum Discovered a Rembrandt Hiding in Its Collection
Due to an extremely thick coat of varnish, the painting had previously been dismissed as having been made by one of Rembrandt's students.
View ArticleNew Whitney Exhibition Reveals Mexican Muralists’ Profound Impact on American...
'Vida Americana' reopens a twenty-year window during which Mexican painters, most of them communists, traveled north for major commissions, shaping generations of US artists who worked with them.
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