May 2021 Art News

The highly anticipated 9th edition of Art Basel Hong Kong closed amid reports of consistently strong sales across all sectors and market segments, both to collectors present in the halls and those connecting with galleries digitally.

Lucy Chiswell, the Dorset Curatorial Fellow, explores Van Huysum's 'Flowers in a Terracotta Vase' in ten minutes.

In late September 2021, Long Museum (West Bund) will present the largest solo exhibition by George Condo in Asia, The Picture Gallery.

Learn about Christina Quarles’s work as she considers her painting and process in this video produced for the exhibition "Christina Quarles" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

As part of the Saint Laurent Rive Droite project, Anthony Vaccarello has chosen to collaborate with the Italian design and architecture group Memphis.
It is an unfortunate fact of art history reporting that artists about whom little is known often stay that way, largely because a lack of juicy details about their lives often makes for dull articles.

Husband and wife artists Kahn and Mason’s private art collection reflects and celebrates their relationships with other artists, and represents the ‘relationships, themes and eras’ of the second half of the 20th century. American artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason carved out intensely singular paths with their art — and yet they were never alone.

These liminal areas have been the focus of attention in recent years and the surprising setting for a thrilling revival of excavation in Pompeii. Not since the 1980s has there been an archaeological dig that has broken the seal of the undisturbed layers of volcanic deposits with the hefty blow of a pickaxe.
How CITYarts Transformed Alexander Hamilton Playground with Community Youth and Artist Hugo Bastidas: Following in the Footsteps of Alexander Hamilton was a 3-year long mural project in Harlem, NY (138th and Hamilton Pl.).
An initiative to feature a selection of women on U.S. quarters has so far approved two barrier-breaking Americans: Sally Ride and Maya Angelou.