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Trump's an art critic now. He hated Blue, the work by world-renowned sculptor Joel Shapiro. But Trump hated it with a passion!NPR wrote,A big blue presence has vanished from the la...
The issue at hand, says New York dealer Georges Bergès, is not the public's taste nor the supply of talent but rather that the industry can no longer survive if it remains exclusio...
While judges may be concerned about how art is created (see the first article in the series: Creators, Spectators and Judges: The art establishment), spectators are not. The post C...
More than a century after its incendiary début, “Woman with a Hat” remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste.
The museum's survey reframes the artist as a radical printmaker and an uncompromising figure who preferred the title independent, rejected official honors and pursued her own forma...
The context surrounding an artwork, such as information about the artist’s moral values and behavior, can change our feelings when we see it.
Observer spoke to the author about controversial figures in the art world, dealing with woke dismissiveness and whether artists can effectively skewer the cultural signifiers that...
A £5 million Jan Brueghel the Elder led opening-day sales, while overlooked modernists from Morocco, Colombia and Antigua drew collector and institutional attention. In the contemp...
Why is it that so many smart, inquisitive writers, smitten by the elusiveness of Vermeer’s pictures, should work so hard to wrestle that elusiveness into submission?
Collectors hoping to find the perfect piece at the upcoming Asia Week New York auctions should understand the factors separating a modest porcelain plate from a museum-caliber one.
Tate Britain, LondonThe Young British Art of the 1990s was brash and macabre but also intelligent and emotional. This breathlessly superficial show reduces it to a stylish poseJake...
The author offers intriguing insights into the way this Dutch artist worked, including fresh perspectives on The Girl With the Pearl EarringIn the decades after the death of the Du...
Regents Park, LondonThis year’s art fair is a jumble sale of mediocre paintings for the super-rich, while its Masters sibling hawks dinosaur skulls and sleazy 19th-century nudes. W...
Thaddaeus Ropac, LondonThe artist captures horror, disgust and guilt over Germany’s Nazi past. The colossal results are so scathingly ironic it’s like being spat atWhen the German...
British art is having a moment, but British Art Fair co-founder and director Gay Hutson cautions that before we celebrate too loudly, it's worth considering whether we are looking...
Chez Sotheby’s installs roughly $150 million worth of artwork by Picasso, Matisse, Warhol, Richter and others in a salon-style setting with its own restaurant and bar. Six pieces f...
The chocolate boxiest of all the impressionists has long had his haters – even Manet thought he was rubbish. Little surprise then that the thieves ditched two works on the way outS...
In the fine art world, one increasingly hears terms like "ethical" and "sustainable" used in reference to art advising, installation practices, upcycled mediums and even curation....
'Châtaignier en fleurs roses et blanches' leads a dozen Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces by Cézanne, Renoir, Degas and their peers owned by the Argentine sugar dyn...
Willem de Kooning's works on paper document his efforts to find ways of retaining both image and abstraction, depth and flatness.
Christie’s £107.5 million Peter Simon sale and a £31.6 million Kandinsky led a week in which buyers concentrated on established, institutionally backed names. Even blue-chip lots f...
The painter Emily Mae Smith hands over her brush to a character borrowed from pop culture—a gesture with symbolic depth.
Making climate-conscious art at scale and in public is arduous, expensive and often exhausting. Agnes Denes, Mary Mattingly, Maya Lin and their peers have built substantial careers...
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