Ken Johnson pens a wonderful review in today`s New York Times of Rembrandt-contemporary Jan Lievens (whose work is featured in an exhibition at The

Here`s an interesting intersection of three articles/blog posts I read this morning. I`m sure, with enough time on one`s hands, a pithy little

An art dealer stakes his reputation, in part, on being correct about the market value of the work he sells. In addition to not wanting to see clients

1. Damien Hirst sets new auction record with ‘Investment Banker in Formaldehyde` [h/t SDP] A piece of art by Damien Hirst has set the new record for

Arthur Cohen is a persistently dedicated painter, the proverbial painter’s painter. His first important works were of Italian Baroque cathedrals in

In reading a report on artinfo.com today, about how the ADAA is working to change the law so that artists who donate their work to public

Tuesday`s Aside, a weekly post in which I will try to answer your questions. In order to keep each Tuesday`s thread on topic, I`ll ask that you post

The recent Beijing Olympics has highlighted a crisis in contemporary Western architecture and some of us are worried. Earlier this year, Thomas

Nearly two thousand years ago, in 79 ad, the Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed and buried by two days of lava swells and volcanic ash from Mt.

When the Museum of Modern Art staged its debut architecture exhibition in 1932, curators Philip Johnson and Henry Russell Hitchcock were tasked with

“Grandma” is a word that can mean either nothing at all apart from a kinship designation—grandmothers are women, and a woman can be a lot of

In conjunction with Louise Bourgeois’s Guggenheim retrospective, Anthology Film Archives recently screened Brigitte Cornand’s film trilogy on the

Tuesday`s Aside, a (somewhat) weekly post in which I will try to answer your questions. In order to keep each Tuesday`s thread on topic, I`ll ask

Last year around this time, Tomás Saraceno visited the Twin Cities to install his sculpture Flying Garden/Air-Port-City/32SW in the group exhibition

On the occasion of the painter’s recent exhibit at Moti Hasson Gallery, which will be on view until November 1, Joanna Pousette-Dart welcomed Rail