The art world’s most notorious trickster returns to blur the lines between sacred ritual and high-priced satire. Step inside the digital confessional for a chance to receive absolution—and own a piece of a resurrected controversy.
The spring art market bounced back with $3.1 billion in sales, but this recovery is heavily propped up by financial safety nets. A record-breaking 78% of New York Evening Sales value was backed by guarantees to soothe anxious consignors.
Late philanthropist Agnes Gund's prized Mark Rothko painting will be auctioned at Christie's this May for an estimated $80 million. The proceeds from this historic sale will be used to continue funding her lifelong charitable missions.
Walking through Keith Haring's early works in the East Village showcases an artist whose humanist code was forged long before his commercial fame.
In new shows from Vienna to NYC, artist Lenore Cohen uses Arabic calligraphy to investigate her Syrian Jewish heritage. Her intricate paper-cut sculptures and installations explore complex stories of cultural identity and erasure.
In his recent exhibition REVELATION, artist Jordan Nassar used traditional Palestinian craft to both conceal and reveal imagined landscapes. His intricate works invite viewers to look closer and uncover the powerful stories stitched in thread and set in stone.
Federal support for culture is shrinking, but many states are racing to fill the gap with bold new funding streams - from ticket-sale levies to art-themed license plates. See which legislatures are boosting the arts, which are slashing budgets, and why the stakes have never been higher for museums, theaters, and community programs nationwide.
Trace nearly five decades of Diane Arbus’s fearless vision as 450 photographs reveal the outsiders, performers, and everyday people who defined her career, inviting you to look closer at what it means to see and be seen.
What if a sunlit cumulus cloud drifted through a stone chapel, low enough to brush with your fingertips, only to dissolve before anyone could raise a camera? Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde stages that fragile miracle in galleries and castles around the world.
A palm-sized marble left on a French piano turned out to be a lost Rodin and it just sold for $1.2 million. Discover the full story.
She was the audacious Surrealist photographer who captivated Picasso, only to be pushed into silence as his muse and cast aside amid affairs, breakdowns, and an asylum stay. Dive into the scandalous tale of how Dora Maar lost—and ultimately reclaimed—her artistic voice.
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme borrows Renoir’s Enfant assis en robe bleue and Magritte’s The Equator, thanks to curator Jasper Sharp. Their brief on-set presence cost dearly but, Anderson says, lent performers and viewers palpable authenticity.
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