04/01/2019. "I'm sure! I tell you, he came. I saw him!" insists Soro Navaghi, keen to extinguish any doubts about Picasso's visit to a small Ivorian village famed for its painted textiles. Whether in tourist brochures or online, it is not unusual to find refe...

04/03/2019. Among the most striking aspects of the two hundred years of the Prado Museum’s life since it first opened has been its progressive transformation into a place of pilgrimage for avant...

04/04/2019. A sparkling new addition to New York's cultural offerings will open Friday, a highly anticipated interdisciplinary complex aiming to be an everyman's art space in the upscale Hudson Yards real estate development. The futuristic Shed institution, c...

04/08/2019. In 1608, after a period of intense artistic study in Italy, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) returned to his hometown of Antwerp. He found a city eager to renew its visual culture and ready to support him, a bold artist who worked at a rapid pace and dr...

04/07/2019. The art of rock and roll is getting its due at an upcoming show at New York's Met museum, which is decking its halls with instruments from the genre's greats. The storied Manhattan institution has amassed a staggering collection of rock memorabili...

04/15/2019. Razed to the ground by the Great Fire of Rome, Emperor Nero's original palace opened to the public for the first time on Friday after a painstaking 10-year restoration. The ruins of the sumptuous "Domus Transitoria", once decorated with gold leaf,...

04/11/2019. This April, the British Museum will present a major new exhibition on the work of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Edvard Munch: love and angst will focus on Munch’s remarkable...

04/11/2019. The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the first survey devoted to American photographer David Lebe. Long Light examines his remarkable artistic range and adventurous experimentation over five...

04/12/2019. Organized by the McNay Art Museum and drawn from the renowned Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, America on Stage celebrates the vision of the nation’s 20th- and 21st-century master designers ...

04/13/2019. Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take down two paintings by Emil Nolde from her office walls has touched off a heated German debate as an exhibition on the Expressionist painter and his links to the Nazis opened in Berlin. Organisers of the ...

04/17/2019. Why call this new museum show Beyond the Cape? Compared to so many other exhibitions around the world about comic books, this original and unconventional take soars beyond just superheroes. Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art shows how so...

04/22/2019. On May 4, Rago Auctions hosts its semi-annual auctions of American + European and Post-War + Contemporary Art. Included in the sale will be two single-owner segments: "The Archive of Artist /Desig...

04/18/2019. Van Gogh’s works View of the Sea at Scheveningen (1882) and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (1884-1885) are back on display at the Van Gogh Museum. After being stolen...

04/19/2019. Polish-German artist Alicja Kwade has brought the vastness of the solar system to the roof garden of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. With the Big Apple's iconic skyscrapers in the distance, art lovers can ponder their place in the universe....

04/21/2019. Provocative. Passionate. Intense. Tania Bruguera is outspoken about state-sponsored socialism, inhumane immigration policies, and censorship. Join the dialogue as this Cuban-born installation and performance artist, whose provocative works draw a...