On January 23, 1944, Edvard Munch died peacefully in his sleep in Ekely, Norway, and the world lost an artist who would become one of the most well-known of the 20th century, thanks to his iconic artworks, “The Scream” chief amongst them.
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If you ever find yourself driving coast to coast across the United States, you’ll likely spend a good few hours cutting along the vast cornfields and flat farmlands of the midwest. While waiting for the horizon to never get any closer, a splice of color— a multi-colored wooden square cresting a barn, to be exact— suddenly breaks through the golden browns and dusty greens of the crops.
Edges of Ailey, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is an exhibition that investigates, reveals, and honors the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey. Ailey was born in Rogers, Texas in 1931 and suffered the harsh realities of the south, before relocating with his mother to Los Angeles, California in 1942.
October 11th marked the beginning of Art Basel Paris’ third iteration, and with that, came an abundance of exhibitions springing up in the city of love: “Arte Povera,” at La Bourse de Commerce; the major group exhibition “Pop Forever, Tom Wesselman &…”— featuring work by Ai Weiwei, Marcel Duchamp, David Hammons, Hannah Höch, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Rauschenberg
Here are 10 ways to embody art this Halloween.
Returning to magnificent Regent’s Park in the heart of London, the 2024 editions of Frieze London and Frieze Masters brought together over 270 galleries from 43 countries and attracted 90,000 visitors from over 110 nations worldwide.
When gallerist Guy Lyman answered the phone for our Art & Object interview, he had just driven ten hours from his gallery in New Orleans to his daughter’s home in Texas to escape the potential consequences of Category 2 hurricane Francine as it was making landfall in Louisiana.
Celebrating its 20 year anniversary, ARTBO is Colombia’s preeminent fair shining a light on Colombian art of the last 50 years. Welcoming galleries from all over the country, as well as South and Central American and beyond, the fair offers space for collectors on a global level to invest in Colombian art and art largely focused on Latin America.
After years of hanging unsuspectingly in an Italian family home, a portrait that has now been attributed to Pablo Picasso is on the verge of official authentication. The titleless work, thought to be of Picasso’s long-time muse and mistress Dora Maar, was found in 1962 by a man named Luigi Lo Rosso, while cleaning out a cellar in Capri.
In a broad sense, art and science have always occupied two sides of the same coin.
