01/08/2019. January is about cleansing the past and making new starts. But since the early 1990s, independent polls have shown the rapid growth of those without a religious affiliation. So where do people go to confess, if not to a higher power? Two curators tho...

04/24/2019. Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday they had found an oil painting by the French Impressionist Paul Signac, valued at 1.5 million euros ($1.68 million), which was stolen last year from a museum in France. Police chief Sergiy Knyazev said the paint...

05/08/2019. The internationally well-known and venerated painting Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window by Johannes Vermeer can now, more than two and a half centuries on, be enjoyed looking just as it did when it left the artist’s studio. Previous x-ray ...

08/23/2019. “You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.” While this quotation has been attributed both to Will Rogers and Oscar Wilde, it is less important which of them first used it than is the truth of the insight. And it is pa...

08/26/2019. Because of its tremendous resemblance, paleontologists thought of naming this new species in allusion to Scrat, the renowned squirrel-like character with saber teeth in the movie, Ice Age. Although they finally named it Pseudotherium argentinus, mean...

10/20/2019. Afrocosmologies: American Reflections presents a window into a dynamic cosmos of influences that shape contemporary American art. This exhibition is a collaboration of the Wadsworth Atheneum ...

10/22/2019. Kasmin in cooperation with the Estate of James Rosenquist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (London, Paris, Salzburg), announces an exhibition of two important paintings by James Rosenquist. On v...

10/22/2019. Clars Auction Gallery hosted their most successful October sale in the company’s history with $1,025,000 in total sales (up 10% from 2018). After recently being purchased by a private investment g...

10/28/2019. Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting Ian McKeever: The Nature of Painting, the British artist’s first exhibition at the gallery. The show will run through November 16th. ...

10/29/2019. “War is a force that gives us meaning,” wrote the veteran foreign correspondent Chris Hedges — an adage he delivered with vicious irony. War can pick up the dull, lousy clay of your little human life, and refashion you into a hero or m...

10/30/2019. Seaport announced its newest contemporary public art installation: a large-scale mural by artist Frank Stella, widely renowned as one of the most important American living...

11/04/2019. After being exhibited at 47 locations around the globe, Ai Weiwei’s celebrated Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010) series has returned to the city where it was first launched—New York—and will hit the auction block. The Zodiac Heads:...

11/22/2019. Piguet Auction House announced its next major auction in December. After the success of a remarkable public exhibition at the Beau-Rivage Hotel in Geneva to preview some of the star lots, everyone is now invited to discover all 3,000 lots featuring i...

11/24/2019. Just before 5 a.m. Sept. 14, a fully-functioning toilet made of 18-karat gold was stolen from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. There has been no trace of it since. Police are still looking for the missi...

12/02/2019. An export bar has been issued for Johann Liss’s ‘The Temptation of Mary Magdalene’ in a bid to provide the opportunity for a UK gallery to acquire it. Johann Liss (c. 1595-1631) was one of the leading painters in the Baroque style and a major for...