A New Documentary on Nellie Mae Rowe Explores the Life and Times of the Self-Taught Artist Who Made Art Against All Odds
How do you make a documentary film about an artist when their most important work of art is no more?…
State of the union 2023 live updates: Biden to call for higher taxes on billionaires, stock buybacks
Moments Ago Jan. 6 survivor Sgt. Aquilino Gonell to attend address as Pelosi’s guest U.S. Capitol Police sergeant Aquilino Gonell…
Paula Cooper Is Now Representing the Estate of Jay DeFeo, the Still-Overlooked Artist Who Did Much More Than ‘The Rose’
Paula Cooper Gallery will now handle the estate of the late Abstract Expressionist artist Jay DeFeo, representing the Jay DeFeo…
Peter Schjeldahl, the Beloved Poet Turned ‘New Yorker’ Art Critic, Has Died at Age 80
Esteemed art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl died today at his home in Bovina, New York, at the age of…
Here Are 7 Artists Worth Discovering at the Independent 20th Century Fair, From a Texas Modernist to a Pioneering Graffiti Artist
When the Independent Art Fair announced that it was launching a dedicated 20th-century art edition to run during New York…
Former Deutsche Bank co-CEO Anshu Jain dies at 59
Jain Anshu, President of Cantor Fitzgerald appears on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street at the 2020 World Economic Forum in…
A Mysterious Georgia Rock Art Sculpture—Considered by Some the ‘American Stonehenge’ and by Others the Work of Satan—Has Been Bombed
The Georgia Guidestones, a mysterious public artwork sometimes called the “American Stonehenge,” are no more. In the early hours on…
Lion Tamers Siegfried and Roy’s Dazzling Collection of Jewelry, Art, and Clocks Brought in $1.4 Million at Bonhams
The late German American duo Siegfried and Roy, famous for their magic shows co-starring lions and tigers, made a splash…
A Rare $10 Gold Coin Designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Teddy Roosevelt’s Insistence Fetches $1.1 Million at Auction
A rare $10 gold coin designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1907 was auctioned off for $1.14 million at Stack’s…
Budi Tek, One of the World’s Most Influential Patrons of Chinese Art, Has Died at 65
Budiardjo “Budi” Tek, the celebrated Indonesian-Chinese art collector who founded Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, has died from pancreatic cancer. He was 65,…
The ‘Colston Four,’ Who Toppled a Statue of a U.K. Slave Trader Last Year, Have Been Cleared of Criminal Charges
In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests rocked the globe, four activists in Bristol, U.K., helped topple a statue…
See 10 of the Exhilarating Installations at the Spring/Break Art Show, From a Shrine to Giantesses to One Absurdly Big Ham
Spring/Break Art Show, the upstart cool kid’s fair, kicked off its 10th New York edition—yes, you read that right—in uncharacteristically…
See the Colorful, Artist-Designed Bat That Mets Star Pete Alonso Used to Bang Out Another Home Run Derby Win
The first baseman for the New York Mets, Pete Alonso, defended his title as Major League Baseball’s home run derby…
A Painting Bought at a Small Town Dump for $4 Turned Out to Be by David Bowie—and It Just Sold for More Than $87,000
A David Bowie painting that originally sold for just less than $5 at a Canadian landfill has set a new…
Artist Lisa Yuskavage Blasts Instagram, Quitting the Social Media Service After It Censored Her Work (Again)
Painter Lisa Yuskavage, the latest artist to run afoul of Instagram’s community guidelines due to her depictions of female nudity,…
In the Kitchen: Artist Nina Katchadourian on the Enormously Complicated Armenian Soup Recipe She Learned From Her Late Aunt
While many of us continue to work from home, we’re checking in with artists about the creativity they’ve been cooking…