11/23/2019. On 19 November 1819 the new museum opened its doors to the public, at that date still a royal museum and comprising works from the exceptional collections of painting and sculpture assembled by Spain’s monarchs over more than 300 years. While Go...

11/23/2019. The finest known copy of Marvel Comics No. 1, the 1939 comic book considered the ‘Big Bang’ of the Marvel Comics Superhero Universe, sold for $1,260,000 million on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, at a public auction of vintage comic books and comi...

11/23/2019. “After twenty years of conducting auctions of Rare and Important Travel Posters it was validating to see the sale turn in the best results in the last three years,” noted Nicholas D. Lowry, <a href="http://www.swanngalleries.com" target="_b...

11/23/2019. Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore have promised 88 superlative examples of American Aesthetic Movement and Gilded Age decorative arts and contemporaneous paintings from their collection—one of the preeminent holdings of late 19th-century American art...

11/23/2019. Sotheby’s announced that they will offer an icon of modern architecture, the Walker Guest House by Paul Rudolph, as a highlight of their bi-annual New York auction of Important Design on 12 D...

11/23/2019. In commemoration of the centennial of museum founder Charles Lang Freer's death in 1919, and in celebration of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2020, the Freer Gallery of Art will showcase a yearlong ...

11/23/2019. The V&A opens an exhibition looking at the car as the driving force that accelerated the pace of the 20th century. The exhibition brings together a wide-ranging selection of cars that have never been...

11/23/2019. Two British men were jailed Friday for stealing a valuable hoard of 1,100-year-old coins and jewellery they found with metal detectors -- much of which remains missing. George Powell, 38, and Layton Davies, 51, failed to declare the find as requir...

11/23/2019. An Advertising & Historic Objects auction featuring the collection of John McKenty – the Canadian historian and author whose collection tells the story of the rise and fall of the Canada Cycle & Motor Company of Canada – will be held on Sat...

11/23/2019. Big smile flashing and pencil-thin moustache quivering, subversive director John Waters laughs heartily as he looks back at an improbable 40-year career that made him a trash film icon. "Humour saved me, saved my life," the 73-year-old sharp-dress...

11/23/2019. Pi Artworks London is presenting Activities for the Abyss, London-based painter Selma Parlour’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Selma Parlour is a prolific award-winning artist k...

11/23/2019. When curator Denise Murrell was looking for a museum a few years back to help her develop an exhibition about black models who influenced art history, she struck out at one institution after another. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she recalled, neve...

11/23/2019. A huge carving of a monkey with its tail twirled in a spiral; vast, geometric images of a condor and a hummingbird; an immense spider — the 2,000-year-old Nazca Lines in Peru have awed and mystified modern viewers since they were first seen from...

11/23/2019. Snakes, with their sleek bodies and kaleidoscopic diversity, have long entranced humans. But we know very little about the evolutionary past of these legless lizards because of a scarcity of fossils left by snake ancestors that shared the earth with ...

11/24/2019. Few artists have had more museum exposure in the past couple of years than Mickalene Thomas, a prolific maker in several media. In 2018 alone, her name was in the title of at least four different shows, and since then her work has been included in ma...