Philadelphia Has Finally Chosen a Design for Its Harriet Tubman Memorial, One That ‘Evokes Her Power’ | Artnet News
Philadelphia has put public art controversy in its rearview mirror, and is moving forward with its plans for a Harriet…
Friends and Family Remember Artist Ida Applebroog, Whose Wry, Feminist-Tinged Work Defied Categorization | Artnet News
The artist Ida Applebroog, known for paintings, sculptures, and video works that addressed issues of politics, violence, and gender with…
Christie’s Has Brokered a Deal to Sell a Prized Cézanne After Last-Minute Concerns About Its Nazi-Era Provenance | Artnet News
The sale of a major Paul Cézanne still life will go forward at Christie’s New York next month, after the…
Kara Walker, Joan Jonas, Judith Butler, and Other Cultural Luminaries Are Calling on Institutions to Denounce Israeli ‘War Crimes’ in Gaza | Artnet News
Going on two weeks into the deadly crisis in the Middle East, three open letters from high-profile artists and cultural…
María Magdalena Campos-Pons Shows Her Santería-Influenced, ‘Poetic Surrealist’ Art at the Brooklyn Museum, a Long Overdue New York Survey | Artnet News
You may not know the name María Magdalena Campos-Pons yet, but the Cuban-born artist—who draws on the global legacy of…
Artist Zoë Buckman Has Channeled Her Personal Traumas Into Raw and Intricate Embroidery Portraits, Now on View in New York | Artnet News
Zoë Buckman’s particular brand of feminist art has always tended toward powerful, in-your-face expressions of power and resilience—this is an…
‘I Thought I’d Hung My Art-Fair Hat Up’: Helen Toomer on Her New Role with Photofairs New York and How to Foster Real Support for Artists | Artnet News
If you’re launching a new art fair, Helen Toomer is your woman. Crackling with warmth and seemingly boundless energy, the…
The National Gallery in Washington, D.C., Has Acquired a Monumental Simone Leigh Sculpture From Her Historic Venice Biennale Pavilion | Artnet News
A new edition of Simone Leigh’s monumental sculpture Sentinel (2022), one of the showstoppers of the artist’s historic U.S. pavilion at the…
A Painting Newly Attributed to Raphael by A.I. Facial Recognition Goes on View for the First Time | Artnet News
A painting of the Madonna and child is on view in the U.K. city of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, with…
You Can Get Your Tarot Cards Read by an Art Witch Channeling the Ghost of Hilma af Klint at the Armory Show
Visitors to New York’s Armory Show, which opened to VIPs today, can catch a glimpse of what the future may…
One of Uruguay’s Most Prominent Artists Is Funding and Building the Country’s First Contemporary Art Museum
Pablo Atchugarry, one of Uruguay’s leading contemporary artists, is planning to open the nation’s first contemporary art museum in the resort…
7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’
On March 5, 2014—less than a week after its founding—Artnet News published a short item based on a New York…
Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again
On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest…
Judith Scott Defied Stereotypes About Down Syndrome and Became a Famous Sculptor. A Poignant New Children’s Book Tells Her Story
When Joyce Scott was seven years old, her parents sent her twin sister Judith Scott, who had Down Syndrome, to…