As one artist wrote: “Luxury is not found in the cold pixels of our phone or computer.”
Category: Art
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San Francisco Art Institute Campus, With Rivera Mural, Sold
The sale includes a 1931 Diego Rivera mural, which has been valued at $50 million.
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San Francisco Art Institute, With Diego Rivera Mural, Is Sold to Nonprofit
The sale includes a 1931 Diego Rivera mural, which has been valued at $50 million.
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Cuban Artist Ana Mendieta’s Family Fights to Tell Her Story
The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985. Her family members have been fighting for control of her legacy ever since.
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Meet Joan Jonas, One of America’s Most Elusive Artists
Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.
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How Contemporary Artists Are Taking Papier-Mâché Out of the Classroom
A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.
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Pat Steir’s Blue Period
The painter discusses her latest work, her previous career in the New York City welfare department and why she tries to make a brushstroke every day.
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What John Singer Sargent Saw
At a retrospective of his portraits in London, where the American expatriate fled after creating a scandal in Paris, clothes offer both armor and self-expression.
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How Does a Day Job Affect an Artist’s Work? This Exhibition Has an Idea
Plus: an installation in an Indian palace, a farm shop in upstate New York — and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Frieze Los Angeles Opens Amid Attention to Asian Artists
Spurred by population growth and new patron support, artists from China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are getting more recognition from museums and the market.
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Is There Something Radical About Painting Flowers?
Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait.
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Against All Odds, New York’s Artist Buildings Have Survived
Generations of creatives once flocked to the city seeking affordable rent. Now, despite skyrocketing real estate prices, some continue to carve out studio spaces of their own.