Arts

Following reports that Sotheby’s and Christie’s were competing to handle the collection of the late art collector and Whitney Museum of American Art trustee Emily Fisher Landau at auction this…

A mesmerising hybrid creature—part mycelium, part cephalopod, part bird and part machine—will loom over New York’s Meatpacking District starting 3 October as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s…

Van Gogh’s three months in Drenthe, in the north of the Netherlands, has been the least studied period in his artistic career. That has now changed, thanks to an ambitious…

By Ann Williams Catiana Van Dinh is a passionate connoisseur immersed in the world of contemporary investment-grade art. Trained at the Sotheby’s Art Institute, she closed millions of dollars of…

Take your pick: recent admission fee increases at major museums in New York and elsewhere are the result of either basic economics or poor decision-making. What is clear is that the…

A “ground awakening ceremony” for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s (VAG) long-awaited new building on Friday (15 September) began auspiciously, with the announcement of a C$5m ($3.7m) donation from the Djavad…

Fernando Botero, a world-renowned Colombian artist known for his bulbous figures and sensuous subject matter, died today in a Monaco hospital. He was 91.  The cause of death was complications…

“Art history is not a luxury,” says James Fox, the art historian and author of The World According to Colour: A Cultural History and writer and presenter of the BBC…

Around 100 protesters rallied at the main entrance to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York on Friday (15 September) and called on the institution to remove its…

Police are standing guard outside the Zeche Zollern in Germany after the museum received right-wing backlash over designated time slots for visitors who are Black, Indigenous, or belong to other…