Arts

This very succinct and engaging book, about how Danish design and modern Danish helped shape 1950s American design culture and taste, weaves its story around the story of two chairs …

Admission to an art museum in the United States can cost you $15 or $25 or nothing, depending on where and who you are. But a new study that aims …

Manal AlDowayan: Participatory (The Art Library), Mona Khazindar (ed), Rizzoli International Publications, 128pp, $60 (box set) Manal AlDowayan, an established Saudi artist, worked for oil company Saudi Aramco for ten …

Like the multifaceted work of Jeremy Deller himself, the book Art is magic defies easy description. It proclaims itself “Jeremy Deller’s best book” and is subtitled A children’s book for …

Curator and author Manuel Segade has been appointed director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid, the national museum of 20th-century art in Spain. He replaces …

Italy is set to reduce VAT rates on art imports to 5.5% in a bid to make the country a major competitor in the global art market. Italy currently applies …

Daring exhibitions, lackluster sales and lingering tensions over censorship marked the eighth edition of Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ), which concluded on Sunday (June 4). It was its first iteration since …

Art can be a tool to help bridge ideological divides climate change in the United States, a new study in the May 31 issue of the journal Nature find. Its …

Nearly 75 years ago, the largest collection of Chinese artifacts and art in the world was transferred from Beijing’s Forbidden City to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The transfer of …

The Smithsonian Institution has chosen Chicago-based architectural firm Perkins&Will to design what may prove to be the most dazzling addition in a decade to the National Mall in Washington, DC: …