Banksy Just Broke Another Auction Record With His ‘Balloon Girl’ Print
'Balloon Girl – Colour AP (Purple)' just sold for over a million dollars, and Banksy is expected to break another auction record when his painting 'Show me the Monet' hits the block next month.
View ArticleHow a Mispronunciation of da Vinci’s Name on TikTok Took the Internet by Storm
A pair of twins guessing that the 'Mona Lisa' was painted by Mona Lisa will forever live in online infamy.
View Article‘The Artist’s Wife’ Pays Tribute to Overshadowed Female Artists
'The Artist's Wife,' starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern, deals with the plight of being a lesser known partner to a successful male artist.
View ArticleA Philip Guston Retrospective Has Been Pushed to 2024, and the Art World Is...
Guston famously painted KKK figures in order to expose the horror of America's failures.
View ArticleRosa Parks’ House Is on View in Italy, and Its Return to the US Is Uncertain
The American artist Ryan Mendoza has taken care of the house since 2008, and thinks it should be a civil rights monument.
View ArticleCurator Ebony L. Haynes to Lead New Zwirner Gallery With All-Black Staff
Curator Ebony L. Haynes joins David Zwirner as a director, and will soon open a new Black-run gallery in New York City.
View ArticleEdward Hopper’s Earliest Oil Works Are Copies of Other Paintings, Researcher...
A London graduate student discovered that Hopper had copied a couple of paintings out of 'The Art Interchange' magazine.
View ArticleShamel Pitts Asks Important Questions of Dance’s Elite Institutions
A 2020 Guggenheim fellow and graduate of Julliard, dancer Shamel Pitts has spent a lot of time thinking about the issues of elite institutions.
View ArticleUK Government Threatens to Cut Funding From Museums That Remove Statues
Conservative Secretary of State Oliver Dowden told 26 museums to 'continue to act impartially, in line with your publicly funded status.'
View ArticleBlack Photographers Discuss the Challenges and Necessity of Documenting Protests
Renowned Black photojournalists shared what they take into account when documenting Black Lives Matter protests, and the lessons this moment is teaching the broader community about race, respect and...
View ArticleGoogle Doodle Celebrates the Original Bobblehead
Affectionately referred to as 'Wackeldackel,' these wobbly dachshunds spawned a craze for toys that are now manufactured and collected all over the world.
View ArticlePainting Purchased for $60 in Australia Now Thought to Be a van Gogh
Art historian Andrew Mackenzie believes the painting could have been transported to Australia by van Gogh's friend John Peter Russell.
View ArticlePaul Giamatti’s Illustrations of Cranky, Mysterious Faces Are Being Shown in...
Giamatti recently revealed on the 'Late Show' that he's wanted to be an artist or an illustrator since he was a kid.
View ArticleDiscover Virtual Artwork All Over New York City During Digital Art Month
Using scannable QR codes, New Yorkers will be able to reveal hidden virtual artwork all over the city.
View ArticleThe Whitney Biennial Has Been Pushed to 2022 to Prioritize Delayed Exhibitions
Instead, other shows at the Whitney that had to be postponed or reorganized due to the pandemic will be prioritized.
View ArticleDenmark Opens a ‘Happiness Museum’ While U.S. Museums Wallow in Misery
Launched by Copenhagen's Happiness Research Institute, the museum will allow visitors to analyze happiness levels in different countries.
View ArticleDavid Hockney’s Paintings Are World Renowned, But He Never Lost His Desire to...
This isn't a show of Hockney's big, crowd-pleasing paintings that have sold for millions. Rather, the Morgan presents some of his most intimate works in 'David Hockney: Drawing from Life'
View ArticleBeyond Face Value: Why This Botticelli Portrait Is Worth $80 Million
The Sotheby's expert who determined Sandro Botticelli's 'Young Man Holding a Roundel' to be worth $80 million explains what goes into making that decision.
View ArticleRadical Theorist Fred Moten Among the 2020 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
This year, the MacArthur Foundation chose to award a number of creatives whose theoretical and artistic outputs cannot be easily defined, as Fred Moten's work illustrates.
View ArticleMatisse’s Portrait of Henriette Darricarrère Shows a Quiet Side of His...
Estimated to sell for between $700,000 and $1,000,000, Matisse's painting of Henriette Darricarrère represents a crucial phase of the artist's development.
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