Arts

Michael Barzman, the Los Angeles auctioneer who admitted that he and an accomplice were responsible for between 20 and 30 fake works marketed as authentic Jean-Michel Basquiat pieces, will avoid …

Vincent van Gogh painted this cypress just three months before he took his life. Between 1888 and 1890, during what would become his final chapter, he fixated upon cypresses. Widely …

Every month in The Hammer, art-industry veteran Simon de Pury lifts the curtain on his life as the ultimate art-world insider, his brushes with celebrity, and his invaluable insight into …

By Art Publishers Steven Siegel, an American environmental artist born in White Plains, New York, in 1953, has forged a distinctive path in the realm of contemporary art. Renowned for …

Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, “Bélizaire and the Frey Children” (c. 1837), oil on canvas, 47 1/4 × 36 1/4 inches (image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan …

Gari Melchers, “Mother and Child” (ca. 1920), oil on paperboard, 23 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum (image via Smithsonian Institution) It comes as no surprise that …

After nearly two years of bargaining, unionized workers at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ratified their first contract. Ninety-seven percent of the roughly 150 curators, conservators, educators, and public …

When the French artist Françoise Gilot was five, she travelled with her family to the Swiss Alps, where she was struck by the extraordinary polychrome meadows and verdant forests. With …

This September, Christie’s Education introduces its most comprehensive course to date with a dynamic syllabus spanning centuries of art history. Taught by experts at the forefront of the industry, the …

A haul of gold coins discovered in North Wales—the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins ever found in the country—have been officially declared as treasure by a Welsh local …