Art and Politics: Ai Weiwei's Wife Finally Allowed Visit, While the Artist's...
Thankfully, earlier reports of the artist's torture appear to have been unfounded, according to Ai's wife.
View ArticleArt and Technology: From New Museum to Nerd Museum: Assessing the Arty...
Not every art and science pairing was a success at the day-long Rhizome-fronted event, but that's part of the beauty of experimentation.
View ArticleArt and Politics: The Art of Diplomacy?: On Robert Storr's New Vanilla...
The Yale art school dean's curation of the U.S. Mission's art collection presents a surprisingly sanitized view of American artistic endeavor.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Wolfgang Tillmans Makes Lady Gaga Look Like a Normal...
Plus, Christian Marclay's "Clock" Changes time zones.
View ArticlePhotography: Is This Cat a Great Photographer?: Meet Cooper, the Seattle Art...
With a digital camera strapped to his collar, our hero stalks through town, snapping pictures and cultivating a massive following.
View ArticleArt Market: First the Guillotine, Now the Auction Block: Furor Erupts in...
French historians are raising the alarm that these invaluable documents could leave French soil.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: Cannes 2011 Update: Iran Cracks Down on Filmmakers,...
With nearly a week left in the international film festival's run, the news just isn't stopping.
View ArticleDesign & Architecture: Folk You!: A Blow-by-Blow of the Critical Brawl Over...
A guide to the raging debate over whether the museum's Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects-designed building was the source of the institution's downfall.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Nazi Art Controversy Chills Russia's Winter Olympics,...
Plus, the NEA gave out $88 million in grants.
View ArticleDesign & Architecture: Our Hanging Gardens: A Knocked-Out Preview of the High...
The gala party celebrating the completion of the second leg provided an early glimpse of the elevated park's extraordinary addition, to debut in June.
View ArticleMuseums: Can a Miracle Sex and Acne Drug Keep the Barnes Foundation in Merion?
The medicine with which Albert C. Barnes made his fortune will be sold once again, with a portion of proceeds going to an anti-relocation campaign.
View ArticleArts Policy: Art Versus Bighorn Sheep: New Obstacles to Christo's "Over the...
Following the Colorado Wildlife Commission's unanimous nay vote on the project, ARTINFO takes stock of some locals' complaints.
View ArticlePeople: Nazi or Not So Much?: Behind the Lars Van Trier Controversy at Cannes
In an uncomfortable press conference, the provocative filmmaker rambled on about his warm feelings for Hitler.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: Finding Order in Miro's Surrealist Chaos: A Tate...
Marko Daniel charts the great painter's development, from his seminal "The Farm" to late work that captures the spirit of May 68.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Anna Wintour Asked to Help Run the Met, Tania Bruguera...
Plus, see the the winners of Britain's RIBA architecture prize.
View ArticleArt Market: The Frieze Art Fair Is Indeed Coming to New York, With Mayor...
The admired London fair has confirmed longstanding rumors that it will open a satellite in the city, and said it is launching a new event in London, too.
View ArticleArt and Politics: The Met Freezes Dior Loan to Pushkin Museum as Diplomatic...
Moscow's overbearing reaction to a dispute of an archive of Hasidic papers is affecting the museum world at its highest levels.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: Artist Anahita Ramzi on Her Emdash Award-Winning...
The recipient of the Frieze Art Fair's new prize will create a video version of Trisha Brown's "Roof Piece" addressing the uprising following Iran's 2009 presidential election.
View ArticleMuseums: Frick Collection Names Ian Wardropper as Its New Director, Replacing...
The scholar will step into the role this October when the Upper East Side museum's first woman director steps down.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: What Is "The Artist," and Why Is It Such a Hit at Cannes?
Michel Hazanavicius's film has been a surprise breakout success at the festival.
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