01/09/2019. Germany on Tuesday returned a painting looted by the Nazis to the heirs of French Jewish politician and resistance leader Georges Mandel. The portrait of a seated woman by 19th-century French painter Thomas Couture had been on display in a spectac...

06/03/2019. The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State announced the openings of two remarkable summer exhibitions that bring the rich visual culture of twentieth-century Mexico to life. Under the Mexi...

06/12/2019. This is the question that has been asked by so many people all across the world. The purpose of legalizing tobacco while strictly stopping one from using cannabis, or what is commonly called hemp or marijuana, is still a mystery for many. On average,...

07/24/2019. Sudanese protester Walid Abdelrahim was shot dead last month in Khartoum but for his mother he is still alive -- thanks to a colourful mural of his smiling face on a wall of their home. "The painting keeps him alive," said Maiyssa Omar, her voice ...

10/05/2019. Picasso and Braque were looking a little forlorn: unsure of their new home, unsure of their new acquaintances. It was early September, six anxious weeks from the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. After three years of piecemeal re...

10/19/2019. A group of Dubliners are campaigning to bring home the remains of celebrated author James Joyce, whose grave in Zurich is far from the Irish capital chronicled in his modernist masterpieces. On Monday a Dublin council committee, covering the Rathg...

10/21/2019. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is still a shock on Fifth Avenue. The architecture declines to fade into the background or get old, never mind the building turns 60 this month. Happy birthday to one of modern architecture
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10/23/2019. The Art Gallery of New South Wales announced that Melbourne based artist Nusra Latif Qureshi is the 2019 recipient of the $80,000 Bulgari Art Award. The first time the award has been gi...

10/27/2019. The personal property of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, including flown mementos and classified NASA documents, highlights Heritage Auctions’ Space Exploration Auction, Nov. 14-...

10/30/2019. Giant skeletons springing forth from asphalt roads are taking over streets in the Mexican capital as the city gets ready to celebrate the festive and deeply spiritual Day of the Dead. The sculptures -- built out of cardboard and rocks salvaged fr...

10/31/2019. When the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show opens its doors for its five-day run on Thursday, October 31, visitors will have the opportunity to cast their eyes on an alluring bounty of fine and decorati...

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...

11/14/2019. Johannes Vermeer’s “Study of a Young Woman.” Peter Paul Rubens’ self-portrait with his family. Jacques Louis David’s portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife. These paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s...

11/25/2019. A print from a classic "Tintin" comic book signed by American astronaut Buzz Aldrin fetched 33,800 euros ($37,250), triple the auction house's estimate, at a Paris sale on Saturday. The image from "Explorers on the Moon", a 1950s adventure where t...

11/26/2019. Dorothy Seiberling, an influential magazine editor who championed modern artists, died Saturday in Wilmington, Delaware. She was 97. Her death was confirmed by her niece Mary Huhn. As Life magazine’s art editor, Seiberling helped shape pub...