11/12/2019. The Asheville Art Museum, the hub for 20th- and 21st-century American art in Western North Carolina, opens on November 14. The $24+ million, state-of-the-art facility encompasses 54,000 squa...

11/12/2019. The National Gallery is asking for the public’s help to raise the last £2 million it needs to buy a painting of outstanding importance for the national heritage - The Finding of M...

11/12/2019. On 3 December, Christie’s will offer The David Little Silver Collection of Early English Silver in London, comprising 26 very rare works to have survived the loss and destruction of most Tud...

11/12/2019. Swedish maritime archeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th century warships, and at least one is likely the sister ship of the iconic Swedish vessel "Vasa", which sank on its maiden voyage, the Swedish Museum of Wrecks said Friday....

11/12/2019. The Louvre Abu Dhabi on Monday celebrated two years since it opened its doors, but the fate of what was to be a prize exhibit remains unknown. The world's most expensive painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was meant to go on display at th...

11/12/2019. New York’s biannual billion-dollar “gigaweek” of sales, whose latest series started Monday, is the glittering pinnacle of the auction market for Impressionist, modern and contemporary art. But is instability in the wider world taking o...

11/12/2019. Stephen Dixon, whose hyper-realistic novels and short stories reflected his fascination with personal loss, sex, heartbreak, disaster, marriage and old age, died Wednesday at a hospice in Towson, Maryland. He was 83. His daughter Sophia Dixon Fryd...

11/12/2019. The Meadows Museum, SMU, announced an expansion of its contemporary art program with the establishment of a six-year partnership with Fundación ARCO, the guiding organization behind Spain...

11/12/2019. They clang, they whirr, some play music, and some were designed to pay jackpots, challenge early “gamers,” or dispense snacks. These are just some of the actions and sounds associated with antique coin-op machines, which have entertained Am...

11/12/2019. A selection of significant modernist works deaccessioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and sold to benefit the acquisitions fund, will lead Bonhams American Art sale in New York on Tuesday,...

11/12/2019. Teresa Iarocci Mavica has been appointed commissioner of the Russian Pavilion in the Giardini, main exhibition area of the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia), the largest international ...

11/12/2019. An outstanding pair of carved alabaster angels having gold-gilded wings and amazing overall detail sold for $28,800 and an important oil on canvas painting of Columbus’s discovery of America by Nicolaas Pienemann (Dutch, 1809-1860) brought $41,6...

11/12/2019. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announces Diana Greenwald as the Museum’s new Assistant Curator of the Collection. In this role, she is responsible for the care of the permanent co...

11/13/2019. Idris Khan is acclaimed for works in a variety of media that inhabit the space between abstraction and figuration, and speak to themes of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single, cohesive moments. For this lat...

11/13/2019. Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, built up his relationship with the French crown with numerous diplomatic gifts, including the creation of new gardens at St-German-en-Laye laid out for Henri IV by the engineer and designer Tommaso...