11/09/2019. When Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had to come up with a blockbuster in celebration of the Met’s 150th anniversary in 2020 — a blockbuster to follow the blockbusters that we...

11/10/2019. A Joan Mitchell painting looms at the top of the grand staircase at the Anderson Collection, Stanford University’s modern art museum here. It’s a sweaty, emotive work, bright colors moodily smeared across a huge canvas. On a recent Monda...

11/10/2019. The internationally acclaimed exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power is on view in San Francisco this fall. Celebrating the works that African American artists created during two pivotal decades in American history (1963–1983...

11/10/2019. Photographer Robert Freeman, who helped define The Beatles' mop top look on their early album covers, has died, the legendary Liverpool band said Saturday. He was 82. "Besides being a great professional he was imaginative and a true original think...

11/10/2019. One of the rarest Beatles posters ever to come to auction and one of the finest Grateful Dead posters ever made will compete for the brightest spotlight at Heritage Auctions' Entertainment Auction Nov. ...

11/11/2019. Gillian Jagger, an artist guided by a deep-seated connection to nature and best known for imposing sculptures and installations that often incorporated tree trunks and animal carcasses, died Oct. 21 in Ellenville, in upstate New York. She was 88. ...

11/11/2019. It’s not a good sign when you step into an art exhibition and immediately begin to reinstall it in your head. But don’t hold that against “Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art,” a crowded, enthralling exhibition at the Jewis...

11/11/2019. Poster Auctions International’s (PAI) third sale of the year—Auction LXXIX, held October 27th, online and at the PAI gallery in Manhattan—finished at $1.707 million in sales. The auction provided enthusiastic acclaim for important work...

11/11/2019. They recount tales of Viking raids, Norse history, kings and gods: a priceless collection of mediaeval manuscripts, bequeathed by an Icelandic scholar to the University of Copenhagen in the 18th century, that Iceland now wants back. The UN cultura...

11/11/2019. Before you walk inside Another Story Bookshop, you will see a poster featuring the John Lennon lyric “A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be” in the window. During a visit in the spring, the books on display included “Policing Indigen...

11/11/2019. A Chinese vase bought for just £1 in a charity shop has sold for a staggering £484,000 after it emerged it was made for an 18th century emperor. The lucky shopper, unaware of its significance, listed the small yellow vase on eBay - only to be inun...

11/12/2019. Spetchley Park, the glory that is one of Britain’s great Regency houses, is set to reveal for the very first time a whole sequence of fascinating stories from its long and eventful past. On 11 December 2019, <a href="http://www.sothebys.com" tar...

11/12/2019. Stephen Dixon, whose hyper-realistic novels and short stories reflected his fascination with personal loss, sex, heartbreak, disaster, marriage and old age, died Wednesday at a hospice in Towson, Maryland. He was 83. His daughter Sophia Dixon Fryd...

11/12/2019. Lyon & Turnbull’s MODERN MADE auction in London on November 14 will turn the spotlight on the West Cornwall fishing town that became a centre for 20th century British art. It was in ...

11/13/2019. Poland has complained to Netflix that a Holocaust documentary series on Nazi German death camps "rewrites history" by featuring an "incorrect" map. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on the popular US streaming and production website to corr...