05/25/2019. The British Museum is presenting the largest exhibition of manga ever held outside of Japan. Manga are Japanese comic books or graphic novels with a twist, serialised in magazines and read by...

07/29/2019. Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the major figures in kinetic art, has died at the age of 95 in Paris, his family announced Sunday. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Carlos Eduard...

10/16/2019. Acclaimed British artist Ben Turnbull has reimagined Mount Rushmore, replacing the American presidents with Native Americans. Entitled Once Upon a Time in America, the work is part of American History X volume III, Manifest Decimation, which exami...

10/23/2019. Swann Galleries brought forth a remarkable offering of autographs, art, press and illustrated books, as well as nineteenth and twentieth century literature, in a Thursday, October 10 sale ...

10/26/2019. It all started with an obituary. One day, Aris Fioretos discovered that an archivist at the National Board of Health had died at a very old age, leaving no kin. He wouldn’t have given Iris Frost another thought if her name had not been similar t...

11/02/2019. Brooklyn Public Library announced Beautiful Words Are Subversive, a site-specific exhibition of works by Black Chalk & Co., a collaborative publishing platform established by scholar Tinashe...

11/04/2019. The series of new paintings by Andy Hope 1930, exhibiting at Galerie Guido W. Baudach under the title HEEDRAHTROPHIA, stems from the artist’s first visit to Japan in the spring of 2018. In...

11/10/2019. Bonhams will offer ‘Alligator’, a Fender Stratocaster owned and played by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, in the sale of Alligator! A San Francisco Rock Star's Guitars, Art & More at B...

11/10/2019. Revered by everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Beyoncé, W. E. B. Du Bois stands as one of the most important and influential African American activists and intellectuals of the 20th century. As co-founder of the NAACP (National Association fo...

11/16/2019. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced the appointment of Ashley James as Associate Curator, Contemporary Art. James, whose work merges curatorial practice with an academic background rooted...

11/17/2019. Coinciding with the Morgan Library & Museum’s expansive retrospective The Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan (through February 2, 2020), Duane Michals: Mischievous Eye highlights the artist’s wide-ranging curiosity a...

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...

11/24/2019. A five-day Holiday Treasures Auction packed with a staggering 4,379 lots in a wide array of collecting categories – including Western Americana, railroadiana, gold, minerals, music memorabilia, mining, art, Native Americana, militaria, aviation...

12/02/2019. Marion McClinton, a noted director who was a favorite of the playwright August Wilson and took two of his plays to Broadway, earning a 2001 Tony Award nomination for best direction for the first, “King Hedley II,” died Thursday in St. Paul, Minnesota...

12/02/2019. Marcin Maciejowski's first London exhibition with the gallery illuminates the Polish artist's continued exploration of his immediate surrounds, including scenes from the art world, fragments from art history and the often-overlooked moments that perm...