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Senga Nengudi performing Air Propo at Just Above Midtown, 1981, Courtesy Senga Nengudi
5 NYC Exhibitions to See December 2022
New York City will always be a global art center with institutions, public projects, museums, and galleries that offer a breadth of artists and artworks that changes constantly. This December, there…
Diana Hunting with Her Nymphs by Peter Paul Rubens and Studio.
Denver Art Museum’s new look at Flemish old masters
“Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks” debuts never before seen works from Southern Netherlands.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12 April 2017
How Much Museum Jobs Really Pay

Have you ever wondered what a job in the art world pays? Thanks to a new pay transparency law that went into effect last week, all job postings in …

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) Evening dress (detail), from the In Memory of Elizabeth How, Salem, 1692, Ready-to-wear collection, fall/winter 2007 Velvet, glass beads, and satin
The Salem Witch Trials Revisited at New-York Historical Society

Three hundred years after the Salem Witch Trials, we are still…

Installation view of New York: 1962-1964 at the Jewish Museum, NY. July 22, 2022-January 8, 2023.
“New York: 1962-1964” Captures More than a Time and Place
“New York: 1962-1964” is a celebration of the institution hosting it. The Jewish Museum has been a venerable fixture in New York’s cultural firmament for what seems like forever, but six decades ago…
Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director: Being a Large Collection of . . . Designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste . . ., 1754. Printed book, engraved plates. 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 2 inches (45 x 31 x 5 cm).
Drawing Center's “The Clamor of Ornament” Uncovers our Shared Humanity
The curators set a welcome stage for the visitor to the Center. Greeting them at the entrance is Martin Sharp’s Blowing in the Mind/Mister Tambourine Man (1968). Sharp is known as the mastermind…
Edo peoples, Single-figure plaque, mid 16th to 17th Century. Cast copper alloy. Dallas Museum of Art.
London-based Museum to Fully Repatriate Benin Bronzes
The Benin Bronzes of Nigeria, their provenance, and the possibility of restitution have been making headlines of late. Currently scattered across the world, this collection of a thousand plus statues…
detail of painting that features a black man in white clothes and in front of white background. His glasses reflect gothic church windows.
Exhibition on Hugely Influential Artist Barkley L. Hendricks
Along with the exhibition, Hendricks’s art and its impact will be further explored through a richly illustrated exhibition catalogue with contributions by artists and creative figures including…
Senior Conservator Lesley Stevenson views Head of a Peasant Woman alongside an x-ray image of the hidden Van Gogh self-portrait. Photograph by Neil Hanna
Forgotten Van Gogh Self-Portrait Rediscovered
A new self-portrait from Vincent Van Gogh has recently been detected, hidden under layers of glue and cardboard, by the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS). Officials are confident, though not…
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1946-1947. Oil on canvas. 26 x 44 in. (66 x 111.8 cm). Tate Modern, London.
Louise Bourgeois' Early Paintings at The Met
Linda Nochlin caused a stir when she published, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" in 1971. Turning the conventional wisdom of the title on its head, she clarifies that there have…
July 5, 2022 protest in front of The Last Supper at the Royal Academy. Photo by Just Stop Oil.
Climate Activists Glue Hands to Famous Paintings Across UK 
These ongoing protests so far consist of the same general series of actions. Members of the group Just Stop Oil glue their hands to the frame of a famous painting and speak to crowds about their…
Lauren Lee McCarthy, I Heard Talking Is Dangerous, 2020.
LACMA Art + Technology Lab Announces 2022 Grant Recipients
The grant recipients selected for 2022 will explore the materialization of microscopic imaging technology, the distributive properties of mycelium networks, artificial intelligence, and relationships…
Interior view of Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure.
“Basquiat: King Pleasure” Raises Questions About Artistic Legacy
Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse: That’s often been the ticket to artistic immortality, even while coming at considerable cost. Such was the case for Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960…
Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911. Oil on canvas. 71 1/4 x 7′ 2 1/4 in. (181 x 219.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
MoMA’s “Matisse: The Red Studio” Unveils Artist-Patron Conflict
An interior view of Matisse’s atelier in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, "The Red Studio" (1911) serves as the centerpiece for an impressive feat of scholarship that gathers photographs,…
Installation View of Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept featuring view of rooftop works by Charles Ray
“Quiet as It’s Kept”: Whitney Biennial Returns with Middling Show
Silenced by the pandemic last year, The Whitney Biennial returns with an exhibition appropriately named Quiet as It’s Kept. The title seems intended to acknowledge an art world suffering from…