Metropolitan Museum Reports $8.4 Million Budget Deficit - The museum’s annual financial report states that additional losses of as much as $20 million a year have been avoided through sharp cutbacks... more
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Colin Chinnery on the Future of ShContemporary - The fair director talks about the challenges of 2009, his plans for 2010, and how to get through to the elusive Chinese collector... more
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Jeanne-Claude Dies After Brain Aneurysm - Christo says he will continue their work together... more
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How the Mona Lisa Lost Her Eyebrows...and part of her Smile. Leonardo did paint them--but restorer Pascal Cotte's camera claims time and maybe a chemical reaction seem to have lost them... more
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"ABSTRACTION, not just mathematics, has its place in science as it does in art," argues Ronald Hoffman. Why should science mimic the aesthetic games of the world of art? Fascinating subject: try it, you'll like it!... more
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A giant copy of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, Mona Lisa, 50 times bigger than the original and covering a massive 240 square metres, went on display in Wrexham, Wales for one day only. Hundreds of people helped artist Katy Webster for charity... more
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Sesame Street celebrated it's 40th anniversary last week. Let's all remember the artistry of it's late creator Jim Henson as we admire the magic of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, and Elmo... more
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In an unlikely combination, Salvador Dali began a collaboration with Disney studios in 1946 to produce a short animation piece called Destino ...due to financial reasons the project was shelved. In 2003, Roy Disney completed the project... more
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And the Greeks have it! Works by Spyros Vassiliou, Georgios Zongolopoulos, Constantin Xenakis, and Konstantino Byzantios send auction sales sky high at Sotheby's in London... more
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Paris: The Pompidou Center plans to fill a colourful circus big top with Picassos, Matisses and Calders instead of animals--bringing a roving museum of masterpieces to the people... more
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Before the invention of the loom, the discovery of metallurgy revolutionized the ancient world. Artists used materials like stone, wood, bone and textiles. "We've come a long way, baby, since then." See "The Genesis of Modern Art"... more
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In her latest video installation, World Rehearsal Court, Vancouver artist Judy Radul tackles troubling tensions between theatricality and testimony, artifice and documentation, currently on view at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery... more
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MoMA and P.S.1 Tackle Global Warming -
The museums have picked four teams to study ways to protect the city from the effects of global warming... more
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A Marathon Tribute for Merce Cunningham -
Company members and alumni gathered for a tribute performance for the late choreographer at the Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday night... more
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The Best of Performa 09 - until relatively recently, performance art was imagined to be a minority interest, even among the art crowd...that is no longer the case. Here's a tiny sampling of the 2009 performance art biennial's massive offering of events... more
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After long delay, Zagreb's first new museum in over a century will open in December showing Croatian and international works, but contemporary collections in southeastern Europe will still remain under-represented... more
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Deitch Defends Dakis Joannou Show at the New Museum - The dealer, who curates the billionaire businessman’s collection, fired back at critics during a panel discussion at the Fashion Institute of Technology last night... more
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MoMA, a Few Shades Darker - Director Tim Burton's friends and fans ventured to the Museum of Modern Art last night to celebrate a new exhibition devoted to his work... more
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Daniel Baird reviews the recently renovated Art Gallery of Ontario, in "AGO Transformed: What Museums are For" ... a "must read" article if you can't get to Toronto to see for yourself any time soon... more
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While vibrant and cosmopolitan, the city of Bamako situated on the Niger River doesn’t have much of an art scene. But Africa is emerging as one of the most important stops on the global contemporary photography circuit... more
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AURORA BOREALIS! If you've never seen the Northern Lights--or if you have and yearn for more--here are YouTube photos that make your hands reach for your palette, plus your pink and green pigments... more
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One of the finest private collections of Northwest Coast Indian objects from Vancouver Island to Alaska’s Yakutat Bay has been gifted by Estelle and Morton Sosland to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City... more
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The Greek philosopher Artistotle once proclaimed, "Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish." That is certainly true of Landscape painters. See Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's "Into the Wild: it's in Our Nature"... more
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Minimalist sculptors Neil Dawson, Anish Kapoor, Andy Goldsworthy, George Rickey, and Richard Serra create enormous outdoor pieces in Australia--have a look at these slides!... more
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Critic Jonathan Jones reveals secrets about the lost wax art of bronze casting first used in ancient China, later deployed by Greek and Roman sculptors to create their lifelike human figures... more
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Breaking barriers, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, calligrapher Julie Seltzer uses a turkey feather quill to write out on parchment a new copy of Judaism's most sacred object... more
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Near the Bay of Biscay, a fantastic new Guggenheim Museum is planned - similar to, and a satellite of the futuristic Bilbao one. The Guggenheim believes that "this is the time to make important investments" (with public money of course)... more
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The Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam made available online all of the 902 letters from and to Van Gogh, richly annotated and illustrated, with new transcriptions and translations. A fascinating trip to the creative process of the artist!... more
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Vandals Attack Banksy Work Up for Vote -
A neighborhood council had been holding a vote to determine whether to keep the piece on display... more
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Picture This -
The Brooklyn Museum celebrated its new rock and roll photography exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present with a Blondie concert... more
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Winslow Homer watercolours are on display in rare exhibition at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, including his important painting The New Novel shown in the 1877 AWS annual exhibition... more
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In Cape Dorset, a younger generation of Inuit artists is pushing past Arctic wildlife and mythological creatures. Lisa Paul reviews the new exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa revealing just how much Inuit art and life has changed... more
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One Sweet Pajama Party - Confection-covered PJs by artist Will Cotton were the star of Creative Time’s latest soirée... more
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A Picture of Africa? - This year’s Bamako Biennial takes an expansive look at the subject of borders... more
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Heffel's in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto have held some pretty rare and unique fine art auctions in the past few years--another one's coming up soon. Here's a chance to preview the highlights... more
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WHAT IS THE TRUE MEANING OF ART?! Here's more on a debate for our times in response to Richard Eyre's essay, such as "Arts keep the light of our hope alive"... more
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Experience and enjoy an award winning interactive site where you can create your own Jackson Pollock-like masterpiece...every time you click your computer mouse, the color changes!... more
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Australian carver Ricky Swallow often chooses to represent items from everyday life, such as an old shoe or a hooded jacket, while explicitly referring to the great still-life compositions of 17th-century Holland... more
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AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum's Tavern Scenes exhibition gives an idea of what it was like to be in a tavern in the 16th and 17th-century. It also is an excellent example of using chromatic grays... more
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"Magic Show" curated by artist Jonathan Allen and writer Sally O'Reilly: Fantasy and illusion... or a license to practice deception? Art and magic often share common ground when perception-shifting tactics are adopted... more
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Germany: "Bauhaus" - perhaps the world's most famous art school - certainly accepted women students. Male grads like Plaul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky are household names, but few women became well-known. How come?... more
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The 20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR (September 15-19, 2010) will take place in London at the Royal College of Art. Now in its 23rd year, exhibitors offer an enormous variety of modern, contemporary and earlier artwork... more
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Apparently "a picture of an artist's studio is an invitation to enter his private realm." Take a look at Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas (1656) for instance. And to think that it was originally painted for an audience of one!... more
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Obama Stacks Arts and Humanities Committee With Bold-Faced Names -
Among the 25 new appointees are Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Wintour, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Edward Norton, and Thom Mayne... more
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Lehman Art Collection Beats Estimate at Auction -
Bidders competed fiercely for some lots, driving the sale's total up to $1.35 million... more
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Celebration or Send-Up? - Rob Pruitt’s First Annual Art Awards toasted and roasted the art world. The artist has always seemed to want us to laugh with him... more
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"Dolls" are an interesting subject of history, geography, politics, aesthetic and culture of the eras they represent. The stunning collection of the late W. Richard Wright made believers of cynics at Skinner's Marlborough (MA.) Gallery auction... more
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Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante - This enormous group painting by Chinese artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An after Leonardo was done in oil in 2006. Check out the list of famous people depicted and click on individual portraits for facts & faces... more
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