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. 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. 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. 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...

10/27/2019. 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. 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. 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. On a forlorn stretch of the Seine near the Gare de Lyon station sits a small, dreary, government-owned red brick building that houses one of the most vibrant artistic communities here. Since early October, L’Atelier des Artistes en Exil has u...

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. A rare handwritten letter by Jane Austen sold for $200,075 at Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts sale in New York on October 23, establishing a new world record at auction for an autograph letter sig...

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. The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition combining a six-decade retrospective of Duane Michals with an artist’s-choice selection of works from all corners of the permanent collecti...

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...

10/28/2019. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is getting ready to open a $24 million center that will allow visitors to watch conservators at work. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has begun a lengthy restoration of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” whi...