Faded Photos Bought for $2,200 at an Estate Sale Turn Out to Be Two Rare Stieglitz Works Stuck Together
An eagle-eyed collector bought a framed photo at a tiny Connecticut auction house for just over $2,000 last year. He…
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…
Editors’ Picks: 10 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Andrea Breiling in the Hamptons to Artist-Designed Garbage Trucks in the Streets
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
See the Incredible, Recently Rediscovered Photographs a Young Woman Took During a Trip to Postwar South Korea: ‘These Places Are Gone’
A recently rediscovered trove of historical photographs of South Korea in the mid-1950s has offered a stunning time capsule of…
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Midsummer Dance Party to Cindy Sherman’s Debut at Hauser and Wirth
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
A Photographer Is Suing Tattoo Artist Kat Von D After She Inked His Portrait of Miles Davis on a Friend’s Body
If you copyright a work of art, does that prevent other people from turning that image into a tattoo? That’s…
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Pride Parties at the Brooklyn Museum to Kimono Fashion at the Met
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Here’s Your Go-To Guide to All the Art Fairs Taking Place During Frieze New York 2022
Yes, we just did an art fair week in New York—the inaugural “New York Art Week,” no less. But for…
Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Joan Jonas in Times Square to Art Inspired by Courtroom Dramas
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Graffiti Artist Acer Tagged the New Museum Facade in a Brazen, ‘Legendary’ Feat Reminiscent of Decades Gone By
A daring graffiti artist pulled off a tag for the ages at New York’s New Museum on Wednesday, spraying the…
Street Artist JR Enlisted 100 Local Volunteers to Unfurl a Massive Photograph of a Five-Year-Old Refugee in Ukraine
The French street artist JR traveled to Ukraine last week and enlisted local residents in a monumental public art action featuring…
Disgruntled Member Stabs Two Employees at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Prompting an Evacuation of the Building
Two employees were stabbed this afternoon at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, triggering an emergency evacuation of the institution.…
We Broke Down the 2022 Oscar Nominees Where Art Plays a Role. Here’s What We Found
This year’s Oscar nominees are light on films related to the visual arts, with perhaps the strongest tie to the…
Google Doodle Honors Avant-Garde Artist Katarzyna Kobro, Whose Revolutionary Abstract Sculptures Were Destroyed by Nazis
Today’s Google Doodle honors Katarzyna Kobro, an avant-garde Polish sculptor and art theorist who was part of the Constructivist art movement in the early 20th…
Before the Smoke Cleared From the Capitol Riots, Curators Were Out Looking for Artifacts. What Should They Do With Them Now?
A year ago, before the smoke had fully cleared after a group of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building, curators and…
The 10 Most Expensive NFT Artworks of 2021, From Beeple’s $69 Million ‘Everydays’ to XCOPY’s $3.8 Million Portrait of ‘Some Asshole’
As 2021 draws to a close, it seems like a good time to revisit the explosive market for NFT art.…
Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Licensing Lessons for Artists to the Return of Immersive Van Gogh
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person, in the…
The Largest Documentary Film Festival in the U.S. Is Kicking Off in New York. Here Are 7 Films About Art to Check Out at Doc NYC
Today marks the start of Doc NYC, the nation’s largest documentary film festival, and quite a few of the selections…