10/26/2019. Ingo Maurer, a German lighting designer who was Promethean in his delivery of illumination — fashioning lamps out of shattered crockery, scribbled memos, holograms, tea strainers and incandescent bulbs with feathered wings — died Monday in ...

10/26/2019. A vote this month over one of New York City’s new, more inclusive monuments became so combative — with audience members shouting “How dare you!” — that the acclaimed artist who won the commission walked away from the job. ...

10/26/2019. Britain's Natural History Museum on Friday named a tiny, blind and wingless beetle after climate activist Greta Thunberg. The honey-coloured insect, measuring less than one millimetre, was discovered in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the 1960s. ...

10/26/2019. A 13th-century painting by the Italian master Cimabue that goes on auction Sunday, after being discovered in an ordinary home in France, is among a handful of surprising discoveries that have thrilled the art world. The Renaissance painter's "Chri...

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...

10/27/2019. Five years after his last exhibition, Jonathan Meese returns to Paris with his very own "MEESE fashion show". This vibrant exhibition lights up the gallery space with a mix of installations, sculptures and paintings in a homage to the capital of fash...

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...

10/28/2019. 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...