Art News

In this episode, William Greenwood explains a 13th-century celestial globe and helps us understand how the skies were mapped and perceived in the Middle East.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) are proud to present an important and unusual exhibition by one of the most significant painters of our time. Julian Schnabel’s first exhibition at a US West Coast institution in over 30 years will feature new, large-scale paintings, occupying the Legion of Honor’s open-air courtyard.

(Los Angeles, April 22, 2018)—The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announces the addition of 10 new acquisitions during the museum’s 32nd annual Collectors Committee fundraiser. The annual Collectors Committee Weekend—led by LACMA trustee, Collectors Committee Chair, and Acquisitions Committee Chair Ann Colgin—was a two-day affair, which included curator-led art presentations, private dinners at the homes of major LACMA supporters, and a gala dinner where members voted on artworks to add to the museum’s permanent collection.

Sotheby’s recent auction, "A Beautiful Life: Photographs from the Collection of Leland Hirsch," presented fifty striking photos from Hirsch’s private collection. Richard Avedon’s iconic "Dovima with Elephants" led the auction, selling for $375,500, one of the highest prices of the season.

In the spirit of the English poet Alexander Pope, art, like hope, springs eternal. And this year the vernal equinox, signaling the onset of spring, our most hopeful season, occurred on March 19th, the earliest in recent memory. While March 2020 also saw the proliferation of that other “v” word necessitating a period of enforced isolation, artists are possibly the best equipped to weather this period given the solitary nature of most creative activity. Many artists have recognized the uplifting power of spring, particularly in times of societal upheaval.

In the largest text piece she has ever made, Tracey Emin RA reminds travellers to stop and take a moment in one of the UK’s busiest railway stations. The intimate words I Want My Time With You now stretch 20 metres across the famous Barlow Shed roof in St Pancras International.

Tony Cragg is one of Britain's leading sculptors. Born in Liverpool in 1949, Tony's love of the natural world as a child was the catalyst for a lifelong fascination with material and form. In this film he talks through the process of creating some of his most recent work, introducing us to the team who help him to realise his unique vision for structure and form.

Peggy and David Rockefeller collected and regularly used scores of antique porcelain dinner services. Ceramics specialist Carleigh Queenth and Rockefeller family historian Peter Johnson select their favourites. Find out more: https://www.christies.com/features/Th...

Journey from Ancient Greece to 19th century Africa with sculptures from the collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet. Together, these pieces form a compelling vision of beauty from disparate cultures across centuries and continents. Examples include a Roman Bronze figure of Heracles, a Tahitian figure from a flywisk, and an iconic ancestral Fang statue from the Master of Ntem. The Shape of Beauty: Sculpture from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet will be offered on 14 May.

As a sculptor, performer, and writer, Gordon Hall examines the personal, relational, and political effects of the ways we relate to objects and to each other.