Turkey’s longtime leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan easily won a runoff election on Sunday to extend his rule into a third decade after a divisive campaign electrified his conservative base but …
Arts
Dripping artist Janet Sobel, pioneer of dripping before Jackson Pollock, has grown in popularity in recent years and is now the subject of a solo exhibition at New York’s Ukrainian …
The Kunstverein Munich shines a light on its dark Nazi past for a 200-year anniversary exhibition
Institution anniversaries can be a boring, self-satisfied affair. But instead of focusing on past glories for its bicentenary, Munich’s Kunstverein sheds a critical and ruthless light on its turbulent history …
On Succession, art has nothing to do with aesthetics and everything to do with power and value
Many works of art have been featured in the HBO series Successionwhose finale airs Sunday, May 28, and in its promotional material, including everything from an anonymous work by Paul …
Sometimes it seems like everyone living on planet Earth is a Swiftie – yes, that’s the term for a Taylor Swift fan (after all, what’s not to love, de Empty …
With no seven-figure prizes on offer, Christie’s and Sotheby’s brought in $12.9 million in New York with their Old Masters mid-season sales this week. Nevertheless, specialists at both auction houses …
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples opens a new branch in the city’s famous Real Albergo dei Poveri
THE Naples National Archaeological Museum (MANN), one of the most important archeology museums in the world, will build a new branch in the Real Albergo dei Poveri, an unfinished 18th-century …
Paintings by Alex Colville and Emily Carr headline major spring auctions at Heffel House in Toronto
Expectations were exceeded at the House of Heffel spring auctions in Toronto on Thursday night (May 25). The sales brought in a total of C$17 million, or $12.4 million (including …
This week: the first-ever museum exhibition of Keith Haring’s work in Los Angeles. We chat with Sarah Loyer, the curator of Keith Haring: Art is for everyone at the Broad …
Brighton University to close Brighton Contemporary Center for the Arts citing ongoing fee freeze, ‘skyrocketing energy costs’ and ‘generationally high inflation’
The University of Brighton has announced it is closing the Brighton Center for Contemporary Art (BCCA), saying it faces “very significant challenges” in terms of income and expenditure, including “the …