01/24/2019. Lithuanian-born American director Jonas Mekas, one of the leading figures of avant-garde cinema in the United States, died Wednesday. He was 96. "Jonas passed away quietly and peacefully early this morning," the New York-based Anthology Film Archi...

03/21/2019. Asia Week New York got off to a roaring start last week, when 48 galleries, 6 auction houses–Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Heritage, iGavel, and Sotheby’s and 16 museums opened the...

05/13/2019. With a new record expected for a work by Lee Krasner and another one possible for a Helen Frankenthaler, the appetite for female abstract painters, and women artists in general, is growing fast as New York gears up for its spring auctions beginning o...

07/13/2019. The time has come: On Saturday, 13 July 2019, the James-Simon-Galerie will open its doors with a big opening celebration. Covering 10,900 m², the central entrance building and reception area, b...

07/17/2019. Fifty years after a mighty rocket set off from Florida carrying the first humans to the Moon, a veteran of the Apollo 11 crew returned to its fabled launch pad Tuesday to commemorate "one giant leap" that became a defining moment in human history. ...

10/21/2019. Tania Thomas, one of the first visitors to see the renovated and expanded Museum of Modern Art, had the new floor map in hand and an audio guide. It wasn’t enough. “We’re walking in the wrong direction,” Thomas, of Larchmont, N...

10/21/2019. Hastings Contemporary opened the first major UK retrospective of work by British artist Victor Willing (1928-1988) since his death, charting each decade of his tumultuous life and care...

10/27/2019. The Michael Hoppen Gallery is presenting the first private gallery exhibition of Tim Walker’s photography, which has graced the pages of magazines around the world for more than...

11/01/2019. It is one of rock’s most famously fraught relationships: Lou Reed and Andy Warhol, who managed Reed’s groundbreaking 1960s band, the Velvet Underground, for a couple of years before an acrimonious split. Warhol’s ideas on art, pop cult...

11/01/2019. This is the story of one of those diamonds so exquisite it was given a cute little name: the Princie. Yet despite its diminutive moniker, the Princie is a big stone — 34.65 carats — that sparkles in the cheerful color of a flamingo and i...

11/16/2019. This winter the City Art Centre presents Beneath the Surface, a group exhibition featuring work by nine contemporary artists based in Scotland - Sara Brennan, Michael Craik, Eric Crui...

11/20/2019. Hunter Barnes is one of the foremost documentary photographers working in America today. He is known for his extraordinary ability to document aspects of culture and communities ignored by the mainstream and often misrepresented in the modern America...

11/21/2019. Julien’s Auctions announced Property from the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra featuring a collection of fine art, furniture & decorative art, silver, jewelry and more owned by the legendary Hollywood couple, Frank and Nancy Sinatra Sr., during thei...

11/23/2019. Snakes, with their sleek bodies and kaleidoscopic diversity, have long entranced humans. But we know very little about the evolutionary past of these legless lizards because of a scarcity of fossils left by snake ancestors that shared the earth with ...

11/25/2019. Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, announced that the MCA raised a record-breaking $6 million at the 2019 Benefit Art Auction on Saturday night, Nov...