WORLD ART
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The Best Booths at Independent New York, From Monumental Paintings to Tender Photographs
The Independent art fair’s “no booth” layout, where there are few walls and visitors can mingle freely, has itself garnered a reputation among...
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The Best Booths at TEFAF New York, from Meret Oppenheim to Long-Lost Art Deco Murals
The New York edition of the European Fine Art Fair, or TEFAF, has returned to the Park Avenue Armory with its grab-bag of antiquities,...
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Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales to Repatriate 800-Year-Old Temple Carving to Nepal
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) in Sydney announced Friday that it would return an intricately carved temple strut, or tunala,...
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“Monet/Mitchell” Shows How the Impressionist’s Blindness Charted a Path for Abstraction
Artists, we are so often told, help us see the world differently. In the case of Claude Monet (1840–1926), this is literally true. Famously, 100...
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The Centre Pompidou’s Landmark Agreement with Saudi Arabia Is More Complicated Than It Seems
Nearly seven years ago, Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, the newly ascended crown prince of Saudi Arabia, then 31, sat relaxed in his palace as...
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Wikileaks-Sponsored ‘States of Violence’ Exhibition Undermines Its Own Democratic Ambitions
Earlier this spring, the London nonprofit a/political and the Hamburg-based Wau Holland Foundation held the exhibition “States of Violence” in...
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Christie’s Kicks Off New York Art Week With Tepid Sales And Trepidatious Collectors
Christie’s double-header S.I. Newhouse and 20th Century collection sales Thursday night kicked off the auction week in New York with hardly...
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Art Adviser Lisa Schiff Accused of Leading ‘Ponzi Scheme’ in Lawsuit Over Adrian Ghenie Painting
Lisa Schiff, a prominent New York art adviser, is facing a lawsuit over how she handled the recent sale of a $2.5 million Adrian Ghenie painting...
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Watch a Livestream of the ACM Awards Red Carpet Show
The Official ACM Awards Red Carpet Show – hosted by Amber Anderson, Priscilla Block, BRELAND, Elaina Smith, and Kelly Sutton – is streaming live...
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Two Stolen Artifacts, From the Collection of a Met Board Member, Were Returned to China
Two looted stone-carved tomb beds valued at $3.5 million were repatriated to China, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced...