05/01/2019. Naturally, clothes tend to wear off color after being worn for a while. To most, that is the end of their relationship with their outfits. For others, it is the right opportunity to get artistic. In the past, dying clothes was only done by profession...

07/25/2019. One of America’s most powerful and under-recognized artists, Dr. Charles Smith expresses profound narratives about American and African-American history and culture through his sculptural figures. The largest museum exhibition to present his wor...

08/21/2019. An exhibition of art inspired by Michael Jackson opened Tuesday in Helsinki with organisers insisting it was not a "celebration" of the singer, still dogged by abuse allegations a decade after his death. "Michael Jackson: On the Wall" brings toget...

09/26/2019. Color, form, surface, figure and space – Henri Matisse, the master of painterly innovation, combined these elements in an entirely new way around 1905. His figurative and symbolic reductions bordered on abstraction. The French painter, printmake...

10/18/2019. Almost 3,000 quilts by African American artists — including more than 500 by Rosie Lee Tompkins, a quilt maker whose formally inventive work has helped elevate the standing of the discipline in the art world — are heading to the Berkeley Ar...

10/23/2019. A quarter century after grunge's enigmatic rhapsodist took his own life, Kurt Cobain's iconic cigarette-singed cardigan worn during Nirvana's 1993 "Unplugged" performance is up for sale. The tattered, drab olive green button-up sweater with dark s...

11/03/2019. A rare Revolutionary War-era rifle stolen from a display case at Valley Forge State Park nearly 50 years ago has been returned to its rightful owners. The 5-foot-long rifle was made in 1775 by Johann Christian Oerter, a master gunsmith at the Mora...

11/04/2019. As poetic dream images, absurd pictorial commentaries, mysterious encounters and provocative questions, we see notations in which a specific atmosphere is captured and expressed through color choice, motif and composition. In the exhibition "Behi...

11/09/2019. Seven years later, Michael Flaum still remembers the shock when he opened his storage locker in Los Angeles. “It was completely empty,” Flaum said, recalling that day in August 2012. “It’s very traumatic.” Inside had be...

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. ...

11/14/2019. At just a few inches high, this extraordinary Victorian creation is among the most prized pieces of ceramics in Britain today and is expected to sell for up to £50,000 at auction on November 27 at <a href="https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/" target=...

11/15/2019. Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig, who won Oscars for "Schindler's List" and "Gladiator", died Thursday in Zagreb aged 87, state-run HINA news agency reported. Lustig was born into a Croatian Jewish family in the eastern ...

11/20/2019. Colette Senghor, the wife of Leopold Senghor, a poet and philosopher who became first president of post-colonial Senegal, has died in France at the age of 93. She died at her home in Verson, in the western region of Normandy, at the family home, t...

11/24/2019. Tom Spurgeon, a reporter and editor who gained prominence in the world of comic books and graphic novels, covering it in books, blogs and a magazine, died Nov. 13 at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He was 50. His death was confirmed by his friend Eric...

12/02/2019. Renowned Latvian maestro Mariss Jansons, who conducted some of the world's most prestigious orchestras, has died at his home in Saint Petersburg, Russian authorities said on Sunday. He was 76. Jansons, who had suffered from heart problems, died of...