Art
With inadvertent timeliness, a retrospective of the world’s richest artist opened in one of the world’s richest cities in the middle of the run of Robert Polidori’s elegiac photography exhibition, Versailles.
Opinion
CHICAGO — Daniel Clowes's work is the subject of Modern Cartoonist, a show originally designed for the Oakland Museum of California but recently traveled to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art and will be showing at the Wexner Art Center in Ohio next year.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — I've often called internet ephemera, like visual memes and animated GIFs, the street art of the social web. But as with physical street art, the ability to make a masterpiece requires a wide variety of technical skills.
News
A Polish art student illegally installed his sculpture of a man raping a woman in the Polish town of Gdansk, causing quite an international controversy.
Art
LONDON — If all art is subjective, mirrored art is doubly so. And if there is one tendency at Frieze this year which cannot be ignored it is the use of reflective surfaces, as if to cause you twice as much grief in judging the work.
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News
The new Banksy piece is on West 24th Street, no Easter egg hunt involved, and it's a previously known work that he created with the Brazillian twins Os Gemeos.
Francis Bacon
As Christie’s preps to sell off Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" for a possible record price of $100 million, it may be a good time to bone up on your talking points for both of these canonized artists.
News
The government shutdown is over, a Henry Moore was stolen, claim against Austria for Klimt frieze, Zimbabwe theft, Getty lets 5400 images free, and more.
Art
CHICAGO — I remember my first mall — Lincolnwood Town Center just north of the Indian and Hasidic Jewish blocks of small business on Chicago’s Devon Avenue.
Art
A crowd of whimsical theremins is currently residing in a Bowery gallery, ready to play out their eerie music from mid-century-inspired handmade forms.
Art
The epitome of our pervasive mustache culture is captured in the photography of Greg Anderson, who traveled to New Orleans to photograph the 2013 Beard and Mustache Championships.
Art
A changing climate could impact the food that we eat, as alterations to the chemistry of the ocean or the world's weather have the potential to make some animals and plants extinct. The GhostFood truck simulates what this reality might be like, where the tastes of vanished foods are resurrected thro