AS a teenage aesthete, Louis Comfort Tiffany started making trips abroad to paint in the 1860s...

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THERE was a lot of painting on view in Zuccotti Park this fall, in the form of Occupy Wall Street protest posters...

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THE images simmering in the French photographer Cédric Delsaux’s “Dark Lens” series are an unsettling confluence of...

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Has it been a decade? Art Basel Miami Beach marks its 10th edition this week...

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When Diego Rivera came to New York from Mexico City in 1931 to paint murals for the Museum of Modern Art...

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The scene was not quite “a country road, a tree, evening,” Beckett’s evocation of existential nowhere in “Waiting for Godot.”

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PARIS -- The mood was unexpectedly buoyant at the Grand Palais here on Thursday...

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ONE thing is certain about the artist known as Tabaimo: her animated videos have never followed the fashion for kawaii...

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- It is just under 60 miles from the Stone Valley Quarry here -- an expanse of dust, boulders...

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THE snide “No Rock Climbing” sign in the basement of the Compleat Sculptor makes it clear that the 300 tons of marble...

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- The Yugoslav Army would have been hard pressed to find a more scenic spot to build a nuclear bunker.

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LATE one December night in 1972, three members of an art collective here clambered out of...

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A giant 4,000-year-old Egyptian visitor looms over the crowd of live humans...

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In a metaphorical land not far from reality, a beautiful palace rises from a desolate plain of want and envy.

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BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. -- Forgive the title, a shameless ploy for attention. “The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial” is not actually a biennial...

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WHEN word came last spring that the Metropolitan Museum of Artwould lease the Marcel Breuer building on...

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LIFE in the 21st century can feel like an infinite loop of security checkpoints...

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MEXICO CITY - The view from a night flight about to land in this ancient-now-massive metropolis has suddenly brightened.

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YOUTH, it turns out, is not always wasted on the young.

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In 1972, when Radcliffe Bailey was 4 years old, his parents were looking for a change of scene from New Jersey...

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It appeared to be something of a mystery: a little photo album that had fallen into the hands of a New York...

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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The era of the world-class museum built by a single philanthropist in the tradition of Isabella Stewart Gardner...

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VENICE -- "Illuminations," the title of the main exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale here...

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Doreen Remen was explaining why this was not going to be just another New York street fair.

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Amid mounting calls by scientists for the Smithsonian Institution to cancel a planned exhibition of Chinese artifacts salvaged from a shipwreck...

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Eduardo Souto de Moura, a Portuguese architect whose work combines the abstract minimalism of...

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WHEN the Metropolitan Museum of Art makes a big curatorial decision...

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FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Norman Gorbaty, a retired advertising executive, stood in a corner of the Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University here.

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PARIS -- Georges Pompidou’s dream was a modern arts center. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing signed off on the popular Musée d’Orsay.

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A STARTLING sight will soon be hanging in midair in the Madison Avenue window of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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PHILADELPHIA -- There are times, at the Penn Museum here, when you are almost hesitant to breathe.

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LYNDA BENGLIS has gone her own way since first taking on the New York art world in the 1960s.

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NEW DELHI -- The third India Art Summit, an art fair that ended last week, took up more than 90,000 square feet of Pragati Maidan...

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“It’s nothing, it’s the guitar!,” Picasso said in 1913...

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THE first sign of spring this year in New York may be the work of Will Ryman...

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BY the time Lee Lozano died in 1999, her last high-profile artwork could fairly be judged a success.

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AT FIRST GLANCE IT SEEMS an unremarkable scene: a quiet plaza shaded by date palms in the shadow of this city’s immense medieval Citadel...

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OF THE OPPORTUNITIES ONCE FACING Mark Bradford, who is 6 foot 8, hoop dreams were probably among the more viable ones.

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Robert Rauschenberg, the subject of a chock-a-block time capsule of a show at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, was an optimist and a doer.

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THE SELF-TAUGHT ARTIS Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was a slight man of meager means.

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THE PHOTOGRAPH VIK MUNIZ often says that while he considers himself an American artist...

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Boilerplate is safe box office, and we’ve gotten our share lately.

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The thin orange line of paint traces a winding path though downtown Manhattan neighborhoods like SoHo...

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Daniel Chester French, the sculptor best known for the saddened seated president portrayed in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington...

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IN his office in TriBeCa, James Carpenter is surrounded by sheets of glass — thick and thin, wavy and flat, transparent and opaque.

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AROUND 1913 Henri Matisse seemed to be at the top of his game. In his mid-40s he was, at last, an international star...

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In the 10 years before his sudden death at 58 in 1987 Andy Warhol had more new, good ideas about making paintings than he knew what to do with. But he rarely let on....

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One of the greatest landscapes of the Romantic era can be found right in the middle of Manhattan. It isn’t a Turner, a Friedrich, a Delacroix...

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As the global pace of urbanization quickens and the world’s agricultural resources diminish, a new crop of artists and designers is...

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NEW YORK— There’s no question at this point that the financial miasma surrounding the New Museum’s decision to have incredibly expensive artist

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Montreal’s reputation as an underground city, with its labyrinthine connections between shopping centres, hotels, stations, museums and civic centres,...

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Artists, and, particularly, those who produce what we call Modern art, are at once both the most self-conscious (“Look at what I did”) and...

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The urge to collect has revealed itself throughout history as a fundamentally human phenomenon

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ABUNDANT ICE AND A –25°C CHILL pretty much precluded stilettos, but it didn’t stop a crowd of nearly five thousand fur-clad visitors from...

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Twenty minutes before the 4 PM Tuesday kickoff of NADA’s preview (benefiting the New Museum)...

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“TBILISI IS FAMOUS for its huge watermelons in summer; the currency is called lari, and you get Chanel-stamped plastic bags for your grocery shopping.”

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LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT, I found myself standing on the main stage at the Abrons Art Center, blinded by stage lights...

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NOTHING POINTS UP the art-world pecking order like a fair. And nowhere is the division between the haves and the have-nots...

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Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Environmental Art, Op, Pop and the Kinetic/Dynamic Externalism of the Open Arena

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Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), called Caravaggio, is the second Michelangelo, born a few years after...

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