Arts

This month, the New York cinema Metrograph will present the work of Matthew Barneythe American concept, video and performance artist with sound projections Cremaster cycle series (1994-2002), a five-part aesthetic …

MoMA PS1 has a new director. Connie Butler, chief curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, is to leave her post atCalifornia and will join the museum in New …

Photograph prints from Madonna’s hugely popular 1992 Coffee Table Book Sex will be available for purchase for the first time at Christie’s New York this fall, as part of ongoing …

There is an air of inevitability in Michelangelo’s David being “cancelled”. In today’s feverish climate dominated by the so-called culture wars, a nude Renaissance sculptural masterpiece seems fair game for …

Lavinia Fontana is not only considered the first woman in Western art history to be a professional artist. The 16th century Italian painter was also adept at portraying man and …

“We actually have more Chinese galleries this year than ever before,” says Robin Peckham, co-director of Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas contemporary and modern art fair, highlighting how the fourth …

Recently declassified UK government documents reveal that the Foreign Office rejected lobbying by the British Museum to keep the Parthenon Marbles in 1983, the year a formal claim was first …

When the Folkwang Museum in Essen bought a watercolor by Egon Schiele earlier this year, it was also recovering part of its history. The works of 1911, Standing woman covering …

For the third time in six years, the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution is looking for a new director. Ngaire Blankenberg, a museum and cultural consultant …

Contrary to the bigger is better mentality of many of its counterparts, New York Independent fair has retained a boutique spirit. On the program for its 14th edition (May 11-14), …