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People: Leo Steinberg, Giant of Renaissance and Postwar American Art History,...
The author of "Other Criteria" and other seminal books passed away at the age of 90.
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Art Market: China Overtakes Britain to Become the World's Second Biggest Art...
With $8.3 billion in art sales from galleries and auctions, the country now has the most lucrative art market outside the United States.
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Impressionist & Modern Art: Retracing the Arc of Turkish Modernism, By Way of...
Turkish collector Öner Koçabeyoglu has amassed a wealth of art that tells the story of his country's twisty path to non-figurative painting and abstraction in the 20th century.
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The Daily Checklist: Julian Schnabel's New Film Sparks Spat at U.N., Censored...
Plus, former Iraq National Museum director Donny George has died.
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Museums: Sarkozy's Proposed French History Museum: National Institution or...
The French president's pet project is under attack as "bling-bling history" and "intellectual heresy," while union workers are laying siege in protest.
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People: National Arts Club Board Sends Its President on "Vacation" Amid Swirl...
This leave of absence will allow the tony club's administration to "get to the bottom" of recent complaints surrounding odd behavior from Aldon James.
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Arts Policy: Smoked Out of Art History?: Bulgaria's Culture Minister Defends...
Vezhdi Rashidov has framed his battle against an attempt to ban smoking in the movies and on TV as a defense of the purity of art.
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Design & Architecture: Was Frank Lloyd Wright's Visionary Architecture...
A show at the Milwaukee Art Museum highlights the architect's sensitivity to nature, but it's hard to square his designs with eco-friendly modern practices.
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The Daily Checklist: Amazing Light Bulb Wins Top Brit Design Prize, Ansel...
Plus, trouble deepens for the National Arts Club, which has a serious hoarding problem after all.
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Museums: Tate Modern Taps Interactive Artist Tino Sehgal for Olympics-Year...
The prestigious commission was announced at a time when participatory art seems poised to take London by storm.
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Art & Crime: Dallas Museum Lawsuit Presents a Soap Opera-Worthy Tale of...
In his potboiler of a legal filing, Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. is suing to reclaim some 1,400 pieces donated by his late mother more than 25 years ago.
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Arts Policy: Artists and Galleries Around the World Band Together to Send...
From Tokyo to New York to L.A., art is providing solace and raising funds for the victims and their families.
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The Daily Checklist: Sarah Palin Launches Attack on Arts Funding, Networking...
Plus, an artist's homage to the Chilean miner rescue.
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Old Masters & Antiquities: Surprised Madrid Museum Finds Lost Anthony Van...
The San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts must have stumbled upon a four-leaf clover before discovering the 17th-century artist's 1625 "The Virgin and Child."
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Museums: Army of International Artists Threatens to Boycott Guggenheim Abu...
The "Island of Happiness" is still not a happy place for migrant workers who are forced to pay crippling recruitment fees and sign exploitative contracts.
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Museums: Force Quit: French Eco-Bureaucrats Unplug Paris's Computer Museum
But its former director, who suspects government officials want his Grande Arche space for cocktail parties, plans to open satellite branches.
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The Daily Checklist: Kate Middleton's Sexy, Prince-Snagging Dress Sells at...
Plus, the Smithsonian comes under criticism after a hardball play for delicate murals.
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Art Market: Runaway Chinese Art Stock Exchange Halts Trading on Top Paintings...
The Tianjin Cultural Artwork Exchange closed down after it saw the value of a work soar to 52 times higher than the artist's record at auction.
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Art and Politics: Russia Invokes "Force Majeure" to Wrest Icons From a U.S....
Fuming over a legal ruling regarding a Hasidic archive, the Russian government is following through with its cessation of all art loans to the U.S.
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Photography: See Pictet Prize-Winner Mitch Epstein's Photographic Critique of...
The artist has been awarded $111,000 for work he made traveling around the country photographing energy sources, from nuclear plants to wind turbines.
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