After the artist Kevin Beasley won his bid for a cotton gin on eBay, he went to Alabama where the seller, while talking about his life growing up on a cotton farm, told Beasley, “I still...
Top International Art Shows for the Week of December 28-January 4The New Year arrives this week, and although many museums and galleries are in the process of striking the fall exhibitions...
The newest exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice is titled “Cows by the Water.” If it sounds oddly pastoral within the context of a Contemporary art museum, it was nonetheless proposed by...
Originally a tiny outlet founded in 1999 on the Left Bank, the Kamel Mennour gallery now has a high international profile, with three spaces in Paris — including a hotel particulier at the...
The Hapsburg rulers had a great admiration for the 16th-century Renaissance master Pieter Bruegel the Elder, which explains why the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna owns the largest...
On a nippy day in late November, two dozen guests gathered for lunch in the cozy dining hall of an Edwardian house near Victoria station in London. This might have looked to an outsider...
Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England is the most spectacular Palladian mansion in Britain — an 18th-century architectural marvel with gilded state rooms. It was built for Britain’s first...
It is not an easy task to mount a major museum exhibition that, although historically and intellectually important, includes almost no big-name artists or built-in interest. “...
The lines at the Atelier des Lumieres may be preposterously long, but this new “digital” museum’s underlying idea of democratizing art is laudable. Still: the current 30-minute, high-tech...
In March 2016, Art Basel, that behemoth that people love to hate or hate to love in equal measure, announced the launch of a new initiative. Having already established three of the biggest...
