Museums: A Castle for a Curmudgeon: Denver's Clyfford Still Museum to Open in...
Yesterday, the institution's director and architect revealed details of the museum, and hinted at a few surprises to be found in the vast collection.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: Tate Announces 2011 Turner Prize Nominees
This year's shortlist for the top U.K. art honor features artists working in a range of mediums, but few surprises.
View ArticleArt and Politics: Pomp, Politics, and Celebrity Attend the Unveiling of Ai...
Mayor Bloomberg presided over a ceremony featuring Julian Schnabel, Shirin Neshat, Bill T. Jones, and others.
View ArticleArt and Politics: How Osama Bin Laden's Death Has Already Impacted Culture
The movie version of 9/11 has a rousing new ending, for one thing.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: The Bin Laden Death Photos We Get, Vik Muniz's Art...
Plus, Anish Kapoor dedicates his Paris show to Ai Weiwei.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: Digging Beneath "Earthwork": How Land Artist Stan Herd's...
A new film tells the story of how the artist built a tiny Eden in New York with the help of the short-fingered vulgarian and some homeless volunteers.
View ArticleMuseums: Wal-Mart Heiress Alice Walton Finds $800 Million More for Her...
The still-unfinished Arkansas institution now has a hefty endowment and acquisitions fund, with more than $100 million left over for a "rainy day."
View ArticleArt & Crime: Leopold Museum Sends Schiele Masterpiece to Sotheby's in Bid to...
To keep its "Portrait of Wally," the museum has resolved to auction another work by the painter.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: Norman Rockwell and Jason Rhoades Star in a New Play, Kinda:...
The new theater piece by Charles Mee at the Dance Theater Workshop is a mash-up of sampled texts, referential imagery, and art-historical revision.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: New York Gallery Week Begins With Deluge of Shows,...
Plus, a new study shows that art school grads are shockingly successful.
View ArticleGalleries: Switzerland's Legendary Galerie Beyeler to Close and Auction...
Once run by the late dealer and collector Ernst Beyeler as a renowned conduit for masterpieces, the gallery's run will end in accordance with his wishes.
View ArticlePeople: The Redemption of Damian Loeb
On the occasion of the painter's new show, Julia Halperin examines how the bad-boy artist made good with the help of his supermodel wife.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Alexander McQueen Show Proves Insta-Blockbuster for Met,...
Plus, the International Center of Photography is moving.
View ArticleGalleries: How I (Barely) Survived New York Gallery Week
In an act of derring-do, the fearless Emma Allen tried to see every show involved in the citywide art fest. Here she gaspingly presents her findings.
View ArticleArt and Technology: A New High Score for Video Games? NEA Declares Them Art
The new Arts in Media grants will include support for work done on gaming platforms.
View ArticleMuseums: Why the Getty's Choice of James Cuno as CEO Is Clueless
The Los Angeles institution's choice of the museum director repeats the same old failed script.
View ArticleArt Market: See the Top Lots From the Spring 2011 New York Contemporary Art...
The sales include no less than 52 Warhols, plus star works by Koons, Fischer, and Felix Gonzales-Torres.
View ArticleDesign & Architecture: BMW Guggenheim Lab Brings Urban Innovation to a...
The first iteration of the museum's series of mobile satellite structures will look at ways of "Confronting Comfort" in New York, before moving on to Berlin.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Reviews Pour in for Lindsay Lohan's Vampire Art Show,...
Plus, Christopher Knight offers the wayward Getty some advice after its James Cuno hire.
View ArticleArt and Politics: Ai Weiwei Torture Reports Surface and Anish Kapoor Calls...
[Updated] As the political situation in China grows darker by the day, global support for the artist is heightening.
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