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. 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. 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. President Donald Trump on Thursday honored Oscar winner -- and one of his rare public supporters in Hollywood -- Jon Voight, recounting fighting tears while watching one of the actor's films. Voight, 80, was among eight people given the National M...

11/23/2019. David Zwirner announced the representation of American artist Barbara Kruger in collaboration with Sprüth Magers. Since the late 1970s, Kruger has consistently engaged with images and lan...

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. Following an extensive nationwide search, Janet Alberti, currently the deputy director of finance and administration at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), has been named the Anne and Jim Rothenberg Vice President and Chief Financial Off...

11/23/2019. EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, today announced program curators for the 2020 edition (September 24 – 27, 2020) returning to Navy Pier's Festiv...

11/23/2019. Togo on Friday opened a flagship art centre in the former seat of colonial power after a multi-million dollar refurbishment aimed at making it a major cultural draw in West Africa. Built over a century ago, the Palais de Lome was home to both Fre...

11/24/2019. Christie’s will offer Marina Abramović’s seminal performance piece The Life - the world’s first Mixed Reality artwork - as a major highlight of its Frieze Week 2020 auction programme. Coinciding with Abramović’s show at ...

11/24/2019. In collaboration with Karma, Blum & Poe announced the representation of artist Paul Mogensen. A solo exhibition of the painter’s work will take place at Blum & Poe Los Angeles in 2020, foll...

11/24/2019. The first ever retrospective exhibition in Europe of the work of Carlos Amorales will open at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam during Amsterdam Art Weekend 2019. Carlos Amorales – The Factory showc...

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...