From Nick Cave to Janelle Monáe, Kansas City’s New Biennial Mingles Art and Music for a Midwestern Extravaganza
Open Spaces Kansas City, the Midwestern art biennial announced in November, touches down in venues all over the city on…
Christo Will Personally Pay to Deep-Clean London’s Serpentine Lake After His Mastaba Sculpture Is Removed
Christo and the late Jeanne Claude’s monumental floating sculpture, The London Mastaba, is a gift that will keep on giving,…
Accio Calendar! The 9 Most Magical Events Taking Place for New York’s Sure-to-Be-Blockbuster Harry Potter Exhibition
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the US publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and the New-York…
What Do Brancusi, Leonardo, and Pamela Anderson Have in Common? They’re All Vegetarians Who Appear in These Artist-Designed Plates for Animal Lovers
The British artist Benedict Hughes has made a series of painted plates that celebrate vegetarians and vegans down the ages.…
What if Monty Python’s Black Knight Were Pink? At the British Library, Unseen Sketches From the Comedy Reveal What Might Have Been
The British Library will display never-before-seen sketches from Monty Python, the beloved British comedy. The unrealized scripts are from the…
How Collector Stefan Simchowitz Transformed a Defunct Newsstand Into LA’s Newest Art Space
Is this the art-world equivalent of turning lemons into lemonade? Controversial art collector Stefan Simchowitz has transformed one of his…
Andy Warhol’s Epic ‘Shadows’ Will Be Shown in New York City for the First Time in 20 Years
New Yorkers are getting a double dose of Andy Warhol this fall. In addition to the Pop art icon’s highly…
The Louvre’s Critically Acclaimed Delacroix Show Gets a Record Attendance
A record half a million people went to the Louvre’s Eugène Delacroix blockbuster, which is headed to the Metropolitan Museum…
Artangel, London’s Wildly Ambitious Art Nonprofit, Raises More than $2 Million—and Taps a ‘Globally Renowned’ Artist For a Top-Secret Project
Artangel, the London-based nonprofit organization that commissions and produces ambitious site-specific artworks by significant artists, has raised £2 milion ($2.5…
A New National Portrait Project Will Send 50 UK Artworks to the Cities and Towns That Gave Them Life
Many of the most-beloved British works of art in the National Portrait Gallery do not hail from London. Like the artists that…
New Works and No Lines: How the Cleveland Museum of Art Is Changing the Way Visitors See Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinity Mirrors’
The Yayoi Kusama juggernaut is continuing its domination of North America as the octogenarian’s blockbuster show “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors”…
The Hong Kong Museum of Art Has Received a Major $480 Million Donation of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
The Hong Kong Museum of Art has received an astonishing gift of more than 350 Chinese paintings and calligraphic works…
‘It Reminded Me of How We Started’: Why Kurimanzutto Is Bringing a Show About a Short-Lived 1960s Art Gallery to New York
Most summer gallery shows focus on presenting a broad swath of up-and-coming talent. But Kurimanzutto did something different: The Mexico…
The Woman Behind Iraq’s Pavilion in Venice Launches a New Initiative to Champion Artists From Conflict Zones
The Baghdad-based Ruya Foundation, best known for organizing Iraq’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale, is launching a new initiative. Called Ruya…