10/20/2019. For a time, a crucifix hung on the wall of the Grace House lobby. Then, in the early 1980s, something else took its place: the stark black outline of a crawling infant, in thick strokes of paint beaming outward. In the decades at Grace House, a Ca...

10/20/2019. A member of the committee which selects the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature defended Friday the controversial decision to give the award to Austrian author Peter Handke. Henrik Petersen said that in the future, Handke would be considered j...

10/20/2019. On 14 November, Phillips will offer Norman Rockwell’s Before the Shot, marking the first time that a work by the iconic American illustrator will appear in an Evening Sale of 20th Century & C...

10/22/2019. French contemporary artist of Chinese origin, Huang Yong Ping, has died suddenly on October 19, 2019 at the age of 65. Born in 1954 in Xiamen, Fujian, China, he is recognized as a major figure of avant-garde art in China and world-wide. Huang Yong Pi...

10/22/2019. Top architect Jean Nouvel is suing one of his former clients, the Philharmonie concert hall in Paris, in a dispute over the cost of building the venue, which opened in 2015. In a complaint filed in the Paris court on October 14, his company Atelie...

10/22/2019. When 15 Upper East Side galleries open their doors on the evening of October 30 to celebrate October Art Week, art lovers of all stripes will be treated to an eye-dazzling array of fine art...

10/23/2019. From 23 October 2019 to 16 February 2020, the Städel Museum is devoting an extensive exhibition to the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). It focuses on the creation of the “legend of Van...

10/23/2019. Matthew Wong, a promising self-taught painter whose vibrant landscapes, forest scenes and still lifes were just beginning to command attention and critical acclaim, died Oct. 2 in Edmonton, Alberta. He was 35. The New York gallery Karma, which rep...

10/24/2019. The exhibition "Future, Former, Fugitive", devoted to “a (in others words ‘certain’) French scene” is based on an open conception of territorial placement – bringing together artists born in France and abroad, living in Franc...

10/24/2019. Edward Gibbs, Sotheby’s Middle East & India Chairman, said: “The appearance at auction of important private collections gives the world the opportunity to discover exceptional works of art collected with a taste for the very best. This seas...

10/24/2019. This season, the department will present exceptional pieces coming from several historical commands. From Jean-Michel Frank and Alberto Giacometti and from Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret to the Martel brothers, the 180 lots present in this s...

10/24/2019. Play Well explores the transformative power of play both in childhood and society at large. Through a range of objects including toys, games, artworks and design objects from the 1800s to the present day, it considers how children learn through play ...

10/24/2019. Only three months after the announcement by the MoMA of having received 45 works of African contemporary art from the collector Jean Pigozzi – a major donation described as “a transformative gift” by the museum, <a href="http://www.gmu...

10/25/2019. Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean presents the first major European retrospective of the work of artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz (b. 1954, Red Bank, New Jer...

10/25/2019. Tim Van Laere Gallery presents Live Forever, a group show with work by Bram Demunter, Gelatin, Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck, Friedrich Kunath, Edward Lipski, Jonathan Meese, Tal R, Daniel Ri...