02/20/2019. Superstar designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85, his fashion label Chanel confirmed on Tuesday. The announcement came just weeks after the man known as the "Kaiser" in the industry did not appear at shows during Paris Haute Couture wee...

03/25/2019. When he was just a teenager, Tintoretto was sent to Italian Renaissance painter Titian's studio, only to be kicked out within days because the older master got jealous. Or so goes the legend. What is clear from the first major Tintoretto retrospec...

07/28/2019. A leading pioneer of the Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtenstein’s innovative use of the brushstroke, reducing the form of the painted stroke to its simplest expression, led to a new visual language which he elaborated to reach new heights in the 198...

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...

10/20/2019. Ed Clark, an African American expressionist painter who used a broom and bold colors to capture the natural world and to convey emotions about the racial injustice of the 1960s, earning him international acclaim, has died. He was 93 and lived in Detr...

10/25/2019. Hildegard Bachert, who fled the Nazis as a teenager and joined a New York art gallery where, over a 78-year career, she helped introduce and popularize the works of German and Austrian expressionists and the folk art of Grandma Moses, died Oct. 17 in...

10/31/2019. A letter signed by former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy inspired two dozen bidders before closing at $18,750 to lead Heritage Auctions’ 35-lot Estate of John and Elaine Steinbeck Manuscripts Inte...

11/04/2019. Had she not died at 27 of an accidental heroin overdose, Janis Joplin would be 76 — two years younger than Paul Simon and four years younger than Mavis Staples. Singers with scorched voices sometimes settle more deeply into them. (Have you heard...

11/09/2019. Contemporary Art comes across the block on Thursday, November 21 at Swann Galleries with a broad range of work from the 1950s through this century. Also featured in the auction is a notewo...

11/15/2019. Simon Lee Gallery, New York, presents Since Last We Met, an inter-generational group exhibition organized by Debra Singer in collaboration with Simon Lee Gallery. Since Last We Met ...

11/15/2019. “The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” begins Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art,” followed by a recounting of her losses, which include “three loved houses.” Now Key West Literary Seminar, a literature non...

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...

11/25/2019. Gagosian will present new portraits by John Currin. This is his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong and his first exhibition in Asia. Conflating inspirative sources of high and low culture, from...

11/25/2019. To what extent does a place play a role in artistic creation? The annual Regionale has a predetermined focus on a specific location and geography. Since its inception twenty years ago, this is a unique premise for an exhibition project at the cente...

11/26/2019. Dorothy Seiberling, an influential magazine editor who championed modern artists, died Saturday in Wilmington, Delaware. She was 97. Her death was confirmed by her niece Mary Huhn. As Life magazine’s art editor, Seiberling helped shape pub...