01/09/2019. The Toledo Museum of Art has awarded Lauren Applebaum the TMA Leadership Fellowship. Applebaum completed her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The recentl...

05/10/2019. The remains of the worst known Mediterranean migrant shipwreck, in which up to 900 people died, will be exhibited at the prestigious Venice Biennale art fair this week. The blue and red fishing boat was carrying almost 1,000 migrants when it struc...

10/16/2019. The pleasure and individual character that art-caliber 19th century antique Persian rugs bring to a home is no more apparent than as an enhancement to the dining experience. Whether placed in a formal dining room or a cozy breakfast room, savvy conno...

10/24/2019. The Museum of Modern Art opened Surrounds: 11 Installations, on view in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions, in The Peggy and David Rockefeller building. The presentation, sp...

10/27/2019. For more than 3,000 years, a series of kingdoms flourished along the Nile Valley in what is today southern Egypt and northern Sudan, a region known in antiquity as Kush and by modern scholars as Nubia. In Ancient Nubia Now, the <a href="http://www.mf...

10/27/2019. Mention the word “math” and visions of high school arithmetic, thorny trigonometry and those prickly calculus derivatives often come to mind. But the world of math goes far beyond chalk-etched numbers and quadratic equations on a blackboard...

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...

11/03/2019. First there was Tutu, the "African Mona Lisa" sold last year for 1.5 million dollars. Then a second portrait by revered Nigerian painter Ben Enwonwu, called Christine, sold in mid-October, for 1.4 million dollars. Both record sales of famous works...

11/08/2019. TEFAF New York Fall 2019 ran from November 1st to 5th, with a Preview Day on October 31st, continuing the Fair’s tradition of presenting a diverse variety of art and artifacts from around the wo...

11/08/2019. James Cohan announces its representation of Ho Chi Minh City-based artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The gallery will present a solo exhibition of Nguyen’s work in February 2020. Tuan Andrew ...

11/09/2019. The Sound Art? exhibition delves into the questions posed almost twenty years ago by the percussionist and sound installation pioneer Max Neuhaus (1939-2009) in his eponymous article: Do all artistic practices involving the sound element constitute a...

11/17/2019. The Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada are delighted to announce that Stephanie Comilang is the recipient of the 2019 Sobey Art Award. The 2019 Sobey Art Award grand prize winner was revealed Friday evening at a ceremony at the <...

11/20/2019. Early medieval legends report that one of the three kings who paid homage to the Christ Child in Bethlehem was from Africa. Written accounts sometimes describe Balthazar, the youngest magus, as having a dark complexion. Nevertheless, it would take ne...

11/23/2019. David Zwirner announced the representation of American artist Barbara Kruger in collaboration with Sprüth Magers. Since the late 1970s, Kruger has consistently engaged with images and lan...

11/26/2019. Victory in community-level elections in Hong Kong showed the "great spirit" of the pro-democracy movement, according to a Chinese dissident cartoonist whose work has been a feature of the protests. "The result is extraordinary," Badiucao told repo...