01/12/2019. The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston is presenting Rebecca Morris: The Ache of Bright, a new exhibition of paintings by the American artist Rebecca Morris. Since the ea...

02/01/2019. Rendered with a captivating intensity and a remarkable tenderness, Lucian Freud’s mesmerising early portrait, Head of a Boy, will appear on the market for the first time as a highlight of Sotheby...

03/19/2019. Scholten Japanese Art is presenting Captive Artist: Watercolors by Kakunen Tsuruoka (1892–1977), an exhibition featuring landscape paintings produced while the artist was confine...

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...

05/02/2019. Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani. An exhibition of work by the four...

05/13/2019. With a new record expected for a work by Lee Krasner and another one possible for a Helen Frankenthaler, the appetite for female abstract painters, and women artists in general, is growing fast as New York gears up for its spring auctions beginning o...

05/16/2019. A sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million at an auction organized by Christie's in New York -- a record price for a living artist. "Rabbit", a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, overtook the previo...

06/01/2019. Kovacek Contemporary (Spiegelgasse 12, 1010 Vienna) is the first gallery in Europe to present the New York City-based artist Doug Argue. ...

06/06/2019. Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time", Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot. Ai-Da is the brainchild of Aidan Meller, who claims she is the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid ...

10/28/2019. The Quest for Happiness – Italian Art Now presents a selection of the most interesting Italian contemporary artists following the scarlet thread of the pursuit of happiness. The majority of them have never exhibited in Finland before. For ma...

10/28/2019. The marquee evening sales at the big auction houses are exclusive clubs of a sort, filled with works by artists who have already proven their market clout. Take, for example, the upcoming Nov. 13 evening sale of postwar and contemporary art at Chr...

10/29/2019. In Carolina Caycedo’s images, rivers and streams seem to rear up on hind legs. Waterfalls flow backward and sideways, or fan out into kaleidoscopic formations. Her “water portraits,” as she calls them, come with an aesthetic agenda: to...

10/29/2019. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is widely regarded as one of the most important figurative painters of the 20th century and not many of his canvases have remained unknown – that is until now. Ch...

10/30/2019. Continuing a recent noteworthy trend, Heritage Auctions’ Fine European Art Auction Dec. 6 in Dallas, Texas, once again will feature an outstanding selection of works by woman artists. Leading ...

11/01/2019. At a gala dinner and ceremony held this evening in Shanghai, China, Nomura announced that the winner of the first annual Nomura Art Award is the renowned Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. ...