Art and Politics: Meet Anne Sinclair, the Art-World Scion by Dominique...
The prominent journalist and wife of the disgraced former IMF head is also the possessor of one of France's great art legacies.
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Plus, Andrew Lloyd Webber gives all of his Picasso auction windfall to the arts.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: New Pope Statue "Bombs" in Rome, Angry Vatican...
Installed outside Rome's main train station, Oliviero Rainaldi's bronze statue is too abstract for the Catholic Church's taste.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: Studio Tracks: Artist Slater Bradley on His Addiction to...
With an upcoming gig manning the turntables at the Whitney Art Party, the music-obsessed multimedia artist talks about what he's listening to now.
View ArticleArt Market: Sotheby's Stock Tanks by 25 Percent Following Disappointing...
If it's true that the company's stock is "the world's alarm bell" for bubbles, the plummeting stock price suggests there may be turbulence ahead.
View ArticleFashion: The Alchemist: How Alexander McQueen Transformed Fashion Into Art
An close look at the the late fashion designer's blockbuster retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals the evolution of McQueen's aesthetic.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Terrence Malick Grudgingly Wins Palme d'Or at Cannes,...
Plus, James Turrell is elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters.
View ArticleMuseums: Britain's New Hepworth Wakefield Museum Debuts With Abstract...
The new institution, the U.K.'s largest to open since 1968, honors the work of the late artist Barbara Hepworth.
View ArticleArt Market: Qi Baishi's "Peaceful World" Sets a $65 Million Record for a...
The 1946 work, which the artist personally gave to Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, sold at China Guardian Auctions in Beijing.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: The Fat Lady Sings: In Dire Financial Straits, City Opera...
The company is scrambling to secure its future, but still hasn't announced its new locations or fall season lineup.
View ArticleArt and Politics: Chinese Officials Accuse Ai Weiwei of Tax Evasion, While...
Charges have still not been filed, and the dissident artist's friends have disappeared without a trace
View ArticlePhotography: Capturing the Ghosts of War: Artist Jo Ractliffe on Her...
Ractliffe's haunting work gets its first showing in the U.S. at the Walther Collection in Chelsea, through July 15.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: Assessing Cannes 2011: The Winners, the Losers, and the...
ARTINFO France brings together critical reactions to the festival, including accusations that the jury's taste was too American.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Mysterious Street Artist JR Makes Brooklyn Even...
Plus, the Getty's antiquities curator leaves to take over the Corning Museum of Glass.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: Artist Federico Solmi's "Porno Pope" Show Butts...
Solmi's animation, set in a satirical "Vatic-Anal-City," was set to appear at Ancona's cultural center just a month before the Church's Eucharistic Congress.
View ArticleArt and Politics: World Press Photo Closes Beirut Show Rather Than Censor an...
The exhibition shut down early when asked to remove Amit Sha'ai's Israeli street scenes.
View ArticlePeople: Oprah as Muse: Five Unexpected Ways That the Talk Show Legend...
From Faith Ringgold's "Oprah We Love You" prints to Daniel Edwards's golden tribute to her dogs, ARTINFO looks back at the genre of Oprah Art.
View ArticleMuseums: What Does the Whitney Museum's New Building Mean for Its Art?
Mayor Bloomberg presided over a groundbreaking for the planned Renzo Piano building at the foot of the High Line, giving curators cause to rejoice.
View ArticleGalleries: "Porn Is the Norm"?: Incensed LES Parents Take on Explicit Gallery...
The provocative art of Nick Weber has Orchard Street locals up in arms, and students at the local elementary school asking about the birds and the bees.
View ArticlePerforming Arts: Where Snoop Dogg Meets Marina Abramovic: The Manchester...
With this summer's edition of the storied UK performance series fast approaching, ARTINFO caught up with the festival's director.
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