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Winfield House, home to American representatives to the UK, is hidden away in Regent’s Park—and has hosted a series of the Dutchman’s masterpieces
The art-world satire "I Want Your Sex", starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, deals in questions of power, consent and liberation
The building’s epic art commissions play a big role, compelling visitors upwards
The legendary Los Angeles artist reframed charged images and objects, embraced printmaking and developed elaborate, transporting installations
After the US Supreme Court struck down the White House’s previous tariffs, Trump and his trade representative have imposed new tariffs of 10% or more on around 80 countries
The latest museum in the Guggenheim network will open on 11 December 2026, twenty years after its original 2006 announcement
Works by the London-based Iraqi artist and 29 other artists from the Arab world will be sold to help humanitarian organisations working in Beirut and beyond
Chief curator Cathleen Chaffee and deputy director Jillian Jones will serve as artistic director and executive director, respectively
After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa
Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life
Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027
A new breed of buyer is crossing over from modern and contemporary art and acquiring the top pieces in every field
The art historian Matthew Holman makes his personal selection from a collection spanning 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art
He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
The firm’s Modern art evening sale and single-owner Mo Ostin auction brought in a below-estimate hammer total of $363.9m, or $427m with fees
The Fontevraud Modern Art Museum, housed in a 12th-century monastery’s former stables, will preserve more than 800 works donated by collectors Martine and Léon Cligman
Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at this witty and non-judgemental enterprise, one of many visual art developments already around the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art
Auction sales for contemporary and Modern African art have declined—but African art fairs are still going strong
The auction house held a competitive, white-glove single-owner sale and a lacklustre modern art sale on Monday night
A major new museum to be built in eastern India is being largely supported by commercial galleries and corporate collections
New show explores 40 romantic and artistic partnerships of the 20th century
Only a severely controlled environment will preserve many works of twentieth-century art
From burnt wood works to Picasso-esque paintings, we look at works on sale at the fair
Iranian authorities miss German deadline to issue export permits
Her familiar clay objects may be joined by new works in other media
The novelist and journalist was also an outspoken art critic
New generation of curators and patrons expands the canon to encompass the world beyond the US and Europe
Celebrating the life and work of the Australian performance artist, how Ukrainian artists and institutions are continuing to resist, and a close look at a pair of works from an Oslo exhibition
But older decorative arts of the subcontinent fail to excite buyers
The new space's inaugural show is dedicated to the pioneering Cuban artist Belkis Ayón
The Tate and the Walker Art Center collaborate to show Arte Povera 1962 to 1972, from five years before the movement was defined by its impresario, Germano Celant
Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
This collection positions Lewis as an “anti-war war artist”
Ahead of the sale of the David and Peggy Rockefeller collection at Christie’s this week, the family's archivist examines their approach
Site of museum to be temporary McDonald’s
Expert jury of Stand Prize commend combination of Mark Flood's sculptures and Yngve Holen's paintings
The prize lot, a bust depicting the artist’s brother Diego, failed to attract bidders during the $186.4m sale
Works by Vietnamese-American artist Richard Streitmatter-Tran are juxtaposed with older masterpieces in de Sarthe Gallery exhibition
Paintings by Pollock and Bacon among 60 works Iran due to lend
Artists and curators look at the London museum’s achievements, and the challenges ahead
Palazzo Citterio, part of the new Grande Brera cultural complex, is due to be inaugurated on 7 December
Artist’s retrospective encourages viewers to take their time when looking in the modern age
Russian President Vladimir Putin personally thanked Bernard Arnault at the Kremlin for hosting the show
While female painters prove Georg Baselitz wrong in the contemporary sale
Tehran Museum’s The Sea Suspended seeks to bridge boundaries
Sergei Shchukin’s holdings, split up by the Soviets, are reunited at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
The Soho space will close its doors for good on 22 June
The inaugural edition focuses on works from the 1960s
Director denies that politicians want to transfer collection to private foundation
Clubbers’ paradise is turning into unlikely culture destination
Dalloul Art Foundation investigates authenticity of some Middle Eastern works before museum opening
Market for 20th-century works from the region will benefit from new technologies and deeper scholarship
Tate Exchange initiative aims to highlight threats to art education
Belgian Conceptual artist subject of exhibitions in Paris and Eindhoven
Satellite venue of historic Albertina is to focus on Austrian and international art made after 1945
Museums have since devoted sizeable resources
London exhibition explores how ancient sites informed the work of the late Cuban American artist, who was best known for her performance and land art
Museum’s extension, which is due to open in June, will help broaden story of Modernism—but £30m still needs to be raised
Redesign by h2o architectes opens up 1930s building—with monumental murals by Matisse and Dufy—to disabled visitors
Behind the Tate’s £260m extension: the people, the art, the architecture and the city that made it happen
Italian museum is latest in line to borrow works by artists including Pollock and Picasso
The “Meidum Geese” in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum may have been painted by a 19th-century curator
Exhibition gives historical context to denunciation of Mapplethorpe and Serrano
The Japanese American artist’s first major exhibition in Europe will showcase her signature works in looped wire, as well as lesser-known paintings and drawings
Early Schiele drawing is the low-key star of an unremarkable sale, topped by a flashy Picasso
Art dealer Peter Blake is renting the Palm Springs house that renowned architect William F. Cody built for himself
The man suspected of stabbing two front desk workers at MoMA was apprehended in a bus station in Philadelphia after a days-long manhunt
Leading directors oppose Cimam president at centre of censorship row in Barcelona
Tate’s show on Expressionism reminds us that Vincent was “the father of us all”
Gemäldegalerie to show works by Pollock and Rothko bought before Iranian Revolution
The Arab and Iranian art market seemed to be stabilising, while western counterparts struggle
His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional explanation for cultural change
Dealer teams up with tribal art expert Bernard De Grunne and anthropologist Carlo Severi to stage a revival with contemporary art
It would be the first to be run as a plc, with works of art as its capital base and private collectors as its shareholders
For a struggling institution, the price is short of earlier estimates
The hires have been supported by the London-based non-profit Asymmetry Art Foundation
Currently director of Bonn’s Kunstverein, Hellberg takes up her new post in October 2025
Major new show at Musée d'Art Moderne will look at decolonisation and include more than 200 works
The fair, now in its 12th year, is adding a second New York edition aimed at illuminating art historical blind spots
Hirshhorn holds preliminary talks but Berlin first in queue to borrow works by artists such as Gauguin, Pollock, Rothko, Picasso and Bacon
Fog sculptures and multisensory "occasions" are on the programme next spring
Renowned Turkish artist İnci Eviner says her work was pulled "without further explanation and apology" and describes the move as censorship
New department to hold its first sale during November New York auction season
The Hamburger Kunsthalle’s exhibition catalogue groups Tiepolo, Fragonard and Goya as forerunners of Modernism
A collaboration between New York and Paris explores the dealer who championed both Neo-Impressionism and home-grown terrorism
The director admitted they would not otherwise be able to obtain such a piece
Eric Spoutz was charged with selling fake works purportedly by De Kooning, Kline and Mitchell, that netted him $1.45m
Auction house cuts Dubai October series as it looks to “internationalise” the sector's market
Auction house has hired Hannah O’Leary, formerly of Bonhams, to head up new department
Construction of the 40,000 sq. ft space, dubbed the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery, is expected to begin in early 2024, with an opening scheduled in 2027
The Women Art Dealers Digital Archives explores the role of historical women gallerists as powerful forces in once-niche markets that have since become major sectors of the art world
The man who wrote art history is remembered 300 years after his birth
New Tate curator calls the development "a bold decision" in a "burgeoning field"
The involvement of the former Sotheby’s auctioneer turned private dealer and advisor hints at bigger plans
Art, says the acting chief curator and senior curator of photography at MoMA, is about considering what it means to be human
Auction report; 3rd November 2005
The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions
The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning
Lebanon-born artist tackles world politics but the intimate and the personal shine brightest
Exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery includes works by Manet, Matisse and Mickalene Thomas
The gift, from longtime benefactors Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, includes works on paper by Ed Ruscha, Franz Kline, Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston and others
Milan’s most prestigious art museum and several other institutions in the same complex are now known as “Grande Brera”
Middle market helps deliver auction house’s second highest results in 250-year history
With the inaugural Art Basel opening in Qatar, and with Frieze in Abu Dhabi later this year, the Kingdom is looking to the past with its exhibitions and auctions
Designs for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, conceived by the architect Frida Escobedo, show a stepped exterior of latticed limestone