Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston unveiled the painting Customers conversing in a tavern (1671) by the Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade – which had once …

A large-scale projection by Turkish artist Refik Anadol showing the disappearance of glaciers around the world will be presented on the facade of Theater Basel this week (daily until June …

Art Basel, described by its new chief executive Noah Horowitz as “the most important annual event in the global art market” and the “barometer of the industry”, opened its doors …

With its site-specific installations dotted around the city, this year’s Basel Parcours project takes visitors outside of Messeplatz to places usually (and sometimes still) inaccessible. From private gardens to libraries …

Latifa Echakhch wants it to be a surprise. The Swiss-based Moroccan-born artist’s work for this year’s Art Basel Messeplatz commission is an empty, deconstructed stage. “It will look like a …

A Florida judge threw out artist Joe Morford copyright infringement lawsuit against Maurizio Cattelan, in which Morford claimed to have had the idea for an artwork featuring a taped banana …

It may be 30 degrees outside, but the sweatiest attendees at the Unlimited opening at Art Basel were surely the performers of Augustas Serapinas Ciurlionis Gymnasium (2023). For the piece, …

Nine years after the launch of the second generation of blockchain, the technology has found new life as a home for digital contracts. Artists and the art market have begun …

Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial and outspoken media mogul and populist politician, who led three Italian governments between 1994 and 2011, has died aged 86. Berlusconi, who had been known for …

Emmanuel Perrotin is in the process of selling 60% of the shares of his eponymous gallery to Colony Investment Management (Colony IM), a French real estate, credit and private equity …