10/27/2019. Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana trained in Cremona and Bologna respectively; two geographically close artistic centres but ones characterised by their particular artistic, social and cultural traditions. They came from different types of fam...

10/27/2019. Bertoia’s was honored to auction Part I of the diverse and ultra-high-quality Sam Downey Jr estate collection. The second and final installation of the multigenerational Downey collect...

10/27/2019. Laura Berry, a Lithuanian bartender living in Hawaii, was on a mission. Standing in a room that held a 13th-century ceramic mihrab, or prayer niche, from Iran, she was counting how many human figures were on the Persian lusterware tiles that lined th...

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-...

10/27/2019. 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...

10/28/2019. Antonio Canova’s “Dancer with Finger on Chin” will be put up for an auction in Poland on October 29. This 19th century sculpture used to be exhibited in the National Museum in Warsaw from 1938 to 2005. Its estimated value is PLN 8 mill...

10/28/2019. The marquee evening sales at the big auction houses are exclusive clubs of a sort, filled with works by artists who have already proven their market clout. Take, for example, the upcoming Nov. 13 evening sale of postwar and contemporary art at Chr...

10/28/2019. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus remembers her father, William Louis-Dreyfus, swearing on the phone in the 1990s as he almost got outbid on a painting by Bill Traylor, the Alabama artist born into slavery who took up drawing around age 85. “He ama...

10/29/2019. “War is a force that gives us meaning,” wrote the veteran foreign correspondent Chris Hedges — an adage he delivered with vicious irony. War can pick up the dull, lousy clay of your little human life, and refashion you into a hero or m...

10/29/2019. The Art Gallery of New South Wales has commissioned a major painting by world-renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami for its collection. The Gallery’s Foundation has funded th...

10/29/2019. A new exhibition and book mark the important contribution that Tony Ray-Jones (1941 – 1972) and his legacy, have made to British documentary photography. Both focus on photographs taken between 1966 – 1969 as Ray-Jones, driven by curiousit...

10/29/2019. Legendary Hollywood movie mogul Robert Evans, who oversaw 1970s classics "The Godfather" and "Chinatown," has died aged 89. A larger-than-life figure, Evans was known in Tinseltown both for saving Paramount Pictures by greenlighting a string of hi...

10/30/2019. E.A. Carmean Jr., a museum curator and director and modern art expert who, responding to a higher calling midway through his career, entered a seminary and became an Episcopal canon, died Oct. 12 at his home in Washington. He was 74. His family sa...

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...

10/28/2019. Often regarded as one of the most famous and influential sculptors of the 20th century, Romanian-French artist Constantin Brancusi has redefined standards in architecture and sculpture. Born in a small Romanian village in 1876, the sculptor heade...