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In the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, a community supports the practices of young innovators. LOS ANGELES -- Their dogs play together among the canvases, drop cloths and spray [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin Because of strong demand, young artists' typically long journey to the world stages has been accelerated. While the usual suspects continue to command the highest prices at [...]

An iconic image sells for $15.3 million at Christie's to Bill Perkins, an energy trader, who says he's been waiting his whole life to buy that work of art. Ernie [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin At Christie's sale for charity, the glamorous silk-screen beat out Basquiat's skull painting that had set a record in 2017. Maybe the image is not racy, like [...]

Because of strong demand, young artists' typically long journey to the world stages has been accelerated. While the usual suspects continue to command the highest prices at auction -- as [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin An $11 million project is underway to restore three decaying synagogues and preserve the city's history of harboring European Jews. VENICE - Walking into the Jewish Ghetto [...]

At Christie's sale for charity, the glamorous silk-screen beat out Basquiat's skull painting that had set a record in 2017. Maybe the image is not racy, like the one of [...]

Byline: Graham Bowley and Robin Pogrebin Auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's will no longer need to be licensed as part of a sweeping package designed to promote a business-friendly [...]

The artist's solo show, which opened Friday at David Kordansky's new Chelsea gallery, honors and documents her neighborhood. Just about every day around dawn, the artist Lauren Halsey heads out [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, business-as-usual gets a rethink. This article is part of our latest special section on Museums, which focuses on [...]

An $11 million project is underway to restore three decaying synagogues and preserve the city's history of harboring European Jews. VENICE -- Walking into the Jewish Ghetto here, in the [...]

Auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's will no longer need to be licensed as part of a sweeping package designed to promote a business-friendly climate. New York City has eliminated [...]

After four museums postponed a major exhibition over concerns about Klan imagery in some paintings, the show is opening in Boston. But the debate continues. BOSTON -- In the summer [...]

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, business-as-usual gets a rethink. This article is part of our latest special section on Museums, which focuses on new artists, new [...]

Byline: Elisabetta Povoledo and Robin Pogrebin VENICE - The 78 bronze funnels were ready, the pump tested and the backdrop was almost done. So when it looked as if war [...]

Inspired by Titian's ''The Flaying of Marsyas,'' the midcareer artist is showing a series of shadowy and somber works at Museo di Palazzo Grimani. VENICE -- It is the kind [...]

VENICE -- The 78 bronze funnels were ready, the pump tested and the backdrop was almost done. So when it looked as if war was most likely coming to Ukraine, [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin The exhibition at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea features more than 200 artworks and artifacts from the collection of the artist's estate, most of which have never [...]

She is the fifth person since 2008 to lead the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, an important institution that has faced a great deal of turmoil. LOS ANGELES [...]

Kate Fowle, who arrived in 2019, is carving out an independent identity for the Queens institution distinct from that of MoMA. Shortly after Kate Fowle became its director in 2019, [...]

The exhibition at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea features more than 200 artworks and artifacts from the collection of the artist's estate, most of which have never been seen. In [...]

The Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures shaped into whole and fragmented trophies that reference historical works in the museum's collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected the Guyanese-British [...]

A piece by the Los Angeles-based artist that was scheduled to open in May has been delayed because of logistical issues. An installation for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof [...]

Some 100 works from the siblings Doris and Thomas Ammann will be sold in May, along with their Warhol silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe, estimated at $200 million. Just two weeks [...]

The first Marvels of Media at the Museum of the Moving Image includes an awards ceremony, a festival and an exhibition. When his autistic son, Nate, was growing up, Josh [...]

On Monday, the museum unveiled the opening date of its Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation and shared details of what it will contain. In 2014, when the [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin Fairchain generates digital contracts and certificates of title and authenticity, allowing artists to track their work and share in secondary market proceeds. Even before the artist Robert [...]

Cumbo, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs by Mayor Eric Adams, has a background in the arts, and a history of controversial statements. Laurie Cumbo, who [...]

Fairchain generates digital contracts and certificates of title and authenticity, allowing artists to track their work and share in secondary market proceeds. Even before the artist Robert Rauschenberg famously objected [...]

Proceeds from the sale, in May, of ''Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,'' will benefit the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich. Upping the ante for the spring auctions and attesting to [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin Using indigenous materials and local symbols, Francis Kéré makes buildings that serve the community he came from. Growing up in a poor village in Burkina Faso, Francis [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin Frida Escobedo, and not David Chipperfield, will design the Modern and contemporary wing. The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design [...]

Using indigenous materials and local symbols, Francis Kéré makes buildings that serve the community he came from. Growing up in a poor village in Burkina Faso, Francis Kéré didn't play [...]

The commission, on view from May 17 through Oct. 23, will invite visitors to explore connections to ancient Egyptian symbolism, 1960s utopian architecture and more. Lauren Halsey, 34, an artist [...]

The school's chairman and biggest benefactor, Bruce Kovner, had wanted its president, Damian Woetzel, to leave after a negative evaluation. He marshaled support and stayed. When the charismatic former New [...]

Frida Escobedo, and not David Chipperfield, will design the Modern and contemporary wing. The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion [...]

With an exhibition at Gagosian, Erizku reaches a broad audience, and hopes he is seen as more than ''a photographer for hire.'' LOS ANGELES -- True, Awol Erizku may be [...]

With an exhibition at Gagosian, Erizku reaches a broad audience, and hopes he is seen as more than ''a photographer for hire.'' LOS ANGELES -- True, Awol Erizku may be [...]

Distant relatives are seeking to gain control of the outsider artist's estate from a former landlord, who says that Darger gave the art and literary works he created to her [...]

The three-building complex will open in January 2023 with an exhibition of new work by the Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. LOS ANGELES -- As the art world descended [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin Since this reclusive artist died in 1973, his landlords have controlled work left behind in his apartment. Now relatives are challenging that stewardship in court. When the [...]

Christopher Bedford, the leader and sometimes lightning rod at the Baltimore Museum of Art, will fill the position left by Neal Benezra, who resigned a year ago. One year after [...]

Maria Nicanor, an architecture curator and historian, takes on the Smithsonian position held by Caroline Baumann, who in 2020 was abruptly forced to resign. Buffeted by charges of sexism and [...]

Maria Nicanor, an architecture curator and historian, takes on the Smithsonian position held by Caroline Baumann, who in 2020 was abruptly forced to resign. Buffeted by charges of sexism and [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin For the 59th edition of the longest-running survey of contemporary art, Cecilia Alemani selected mostly female artists, many of color, from around the world. In the two [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin Eike Schmidt, the director, says it is 'very important to get the dust off and to show what is relevant.' The museum has been working toward that [...]

Since this reclusive artist died in 1973, his landlords have controlled work left behind in his apartment. Now relatives are challenging that stewardship in court. When the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger [...]

For the 59th edition of the longest-running survey of contemporary art, Cecilia Alemani selected mostly female artists, many of color, from around the world. In the two years that the [...]

Eike Schmidt, the director, says it is ''very important to get the dust off and to show what is relevant.'' The museum has been working toward that end. FLORENCE, Italy [...]

Byline: Robin Pogrebin The museum and the Sackler family announced that the name would be removed from seven exhibition spaces, including the wing that houses the Temple of Dendur. In [...]