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Although museums have long housed clothing in “costume institutes” removed from their painting and sculpture galleries, a series of exhibitions and events is collapsing the distance between fashion…
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opened its David Geffen Galleries on April 19, visitors were met with works from vastly different cultures and centuries hung together without the…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing was built over the course of the 1970s to showcase the world-class collections of art from sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and the Ancient…
I’d always been interested in Northern European painting, the earliest practitioners like Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and all the supernumeraries that circulated around the Eyckian solar…
Charles Byrne, born in 1761 in Ulster, Ireland, was over 7 feet and 6 inches tall. By age 21, his health was deteriorating rapidly due to then unknown growth disorders which caught the attention of…
I grew up in New York with parents who were early collectors of modern and contemporary art. In the 1970s, I would accompany them to SoHo to visit galleries like Pace, Mary Boone, and Castelli. We…
Echoing a pilot program launched in 1950, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will now allow cardholders to borrow select pieces of art for up to three weeks, as of November 3rd.
Step into the Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia Hotel in Portugal, and step back in time to the 1630s, when wine was the primary economic force in the region. Today, it's still an essential part of the…
Stock exchanges have been offering the public a piece of corporate earnings since the Dutch East India Company opened one in 1602, but only recently has art become a tradable security. Half a dozen…
The Mint Museum is proud to present a major exhibition exploring the artistic and cultural revolutions of 19th-century Europe. Renaissance, Romanticism, and Rebellion: European Art from the Smith…
A longtime presence on the San Francisco art scene, Rowland Weinstein founded Weinstein Gallery in 1992. The gallery, which specializes in non-objective and Surrealist art from the pre–World War II…
Amid reports of the auction market’s steady decline, Sotheby’s has clinched a collection from the estate of Leonard Lauder valued at more than $400 million.
For anyone who hasn't experienced an art fair and will be going to one for the first time, they're like wondrous, unbelievable fantasy-lands come true, expansive exhibition spaces filled with booth…
Before he had reached the age of 30, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) did something that some of his fellow artists considered somewhat odd: Dürer, a highly skilled painter, devoted a significant portion…
Just two months ago, New York City’s Frick Collection reopened its doors after a five-year renovation and temporary residence on Madison Avenue.
