10/26/2019. A Vietnamese artist who exhibited controversial works on land rights issues and death row inmates said he was briefly detained in the communist state intolerant of dissidence of any kind. Thinh Nguyen was picked up outside his Hanoi home by severa...

10/26/2019. An early Renaissance painting by the Italian master Cimabue goes under the hammer Sunday, a few weeks after the rare artwork was found hanging in an unsuspecting elderly Frenchwoman's kitchen. "Christ Mocked," by the 13th-century artist also known...

10/26/2019. Almost 50 million people visited DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries last year, the highest number since records began more than 15 years ago, new figures published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) reveal. DCMS-spons...

10/26/2019. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced artist Hugo Crosthwaite as the first-prize winner of the fifth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Crosthwaite is the first ...

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. The Museo Nivola is presenting the exhibition AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY, the first major museum project in Italy by US artist Peter Fend (*1950). The proposal and installation exclusively developed f...

10/27/2019. The Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala, Intesa Sanpaolo’s museum in Milan, presents the exhibition Canova and Thorvaldsen: The birth of modern sculpture, on display...

10/27/2019. Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation presents four works in video, sound, print, and augmented reality that invoke place from an Indigenous perspective. The artist—who is Kanyen'keha:ka (Mohawk), a member of one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (I...

10/27/2019. The Kunsthaus presents the first Swiss retrospective of the work of Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900), one of the most important painters of the 19th century yet one who, today, is known only to a sm...

10/27/2019. If you’ve ever felt you lack the education to understand art representing histories, people and symbols from a culture outside your own, artist Meleko Mokgosi isn’t going to let you off easy. With six solo shows in four states this seaso...

10/27/2019. Her somber gaze is direct, and in her lap, she firmly holds a book. The circa 1855 daguerreotype portrait of Lucy Stone, the suffragist and abolitionist, is powerful in its simplicity. Not surprisingly, Stone’s mission was incited by the ineq...

10/27/2019. This October, The Phillips Collection opened Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life–The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant. This presentation, planned in con...

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. SET Alscot Road, Bermondsey, London, is presenting Volcanoes & Regret, a new work by the Scottish artist George Finlay Ramsay. Ramsay makes performances, films, music, collage and poems. His recent work has been shown at Art Basel, Camden Arts Ce...

10/28/2019. Qatar Museums is presenting KAWS: HE EATS ALONE, the first museum show in the Middle East dedicated to Brian Donnelly (b. 1974, USA), known professionally as KAWS, at the Fire Station: Artist in Resid...