Art News

While art heists small and large are more common than we’d like them to be, the thefts usually involve paintings or sculptures which are handily snatched and carried off by the guilty parties. On Sunday, enterprising thieves in the Oxfordshire, England went above and beyond to snatch a unique work of art.

Go behind the scenes with contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu, who discusses the inspiration and making of The NewOnes, will free Us, an exhibition of four sculpture that inaugurate The Met's annual facade commission, on view September 9, 2019, through January 12, 2020.

Now on view at McNay Art Museum, La Revolución Mexicana: 100 Years Later marks the centennial of the end of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) with a spotlight on Michoacan printmaker Artemio Rodriguez

In a world of da Vinci biographical sketches, Bambach's four-volume tome, Leonardo Da Vinci Rediscovered, is a masterpiece.

SEATTLE, WA – The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) and the Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, announced today that filmmaker Lynne Siefert is the winner of the 2019 

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the world when it successfully launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1.

The Art Institute of Chicago presents an examination of midcentury art and design with In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury, on view from September 6, 2019–January 12, 2020.

From September 20 to October 4, Bonhams announces an exclusive exhibition, Q-Tip: The Collection, the contemporary art collection of internationally renowned rapper, record producer, singer, actor, DJ, solo artist and member of the groundbreaking American hip-hop collective A Tribe Called Quest.

Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order.

In case you couldn't make it to Black Rock City and the Playa this year, here are nine stunning art installations from this year's Burning Man.