11/17/2019. Over the last month, Iraqis fed up with corruption and unemployment have staged the country’s largest protests since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Hundreds of them have died at the hands of national security forces. The Iraq conflict is st...

11/17/2019. The Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada are delighted to announce that Stephanie Comilang is the recipient of the 2019 Sobey Art Award. The 2019 Sobey Art Award grand prize winner was revealed Friday evening at a ceremony at the <...

11/17/2019. On a recent Saturday there was strong foot traffic on the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art where New York artist Rachel Harrison’s exuberant midcareer survey is installed. And the traffic wasn’t moving fast. Visitors were s...

11/17/2019. This is a halcyon time in royal fashion. The Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex — Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle — set trends and sell products as never before. Tabloids and Vogues alike hang on their every clothing choice, parsing the ...

11/17/2019. The city of Lyon, France, is hoping to cement its reputation as the cradle of French gastronomy with the opening of a new cultural gastronomy center that is being described as the first of its kind in France, and the largest of its kind in the world....

11/17/2019. The Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, presents for the first time an exhibition on Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) and Israeli art, opening a new chapter in the d...

11/17/2019. Coinciding with the Morgan Library & Museum’s expansive retrospective The Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan (through February 2, 2020), Duane Michals: Mischievous Eye highlights the artist’s wide-ranging curiosity a...

11/17/2019. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announces the acquisition of Penumbra (1970) by Frank Bowling. A central work from the artist’s innovative and iconic “Map” series, the paintin...

11/17/2019. Ross + Kramer Gallery is presenting “Double Trouble” this fall, running through January 11, 2020. Artists February James and John Rivas were brought together by curator Larry Ossei-Mens...

11/17/2019. Venice was on alert for more floods and fierce winds on Saturday after an exceptionally high tide swamped the city of canals, where authorities have declared a state of emergency. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro ordered the iconic St Mark's Square closed on ...

11/17/2019. The first in a two-part exhibition on maternal politics, identity and embodiment, ‘Matrescence’ brings together an international range of works from immediately contemporary artists with an older generation of artists to address the unresol...

11/18/2019. The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has named Laura Minton curator of exhibitions. Minton joins the Fralin from Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A senior member of t...

11/18/2019. Conrad Tao tends to slip into celestial metaphors. During a recent interview, this musician — a veteran at just 25 — referred to his ideas about concert programming as “constellatory.” When he thought he was rambling, he cut himse...

11/18/2019. Photographic works by American artist Hal Fischer are on display for the first time in Scotland this November at Glasgow’s GoMA. Fischer (b.1950) photographed the gay male culture of S...

11/18/2019. An ultra-rare 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT 'Lightweight' – one of only nine examples completed to the special Lightweight specification by Aston Martin - first owned by renowned hill climb competitor Phil Scragg, is to be offered in next month’...