Skinner, Inc. will hold an auction on January 12, 2019, of European Furniture & Decorative Arts. With over 500 lots on offer, the auction features fine ceramics and silver as well as European furniture and decorative arts of the 18th through 20th centuries.
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It is iconic, incredible, and unforgettable-- but is the work on view in Paris's Louvre Museum today the real deal?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced this week that it welcomed 7.36 million visitors to its three locations—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer—in 2018, an increase over the 7 million it reported for 2017.
In a new body of work from Dawoud Bey, the prolific portrait photographer explores blackness from a new angle: landscapes set at twilight. Night Coming Tenderly, Black, originally commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial of International Art, and opening this week at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) shows Bey working with landscapes in the same intimate way he usually photographs people.
This episode of the ArtCurious podcast explores the history behind Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a work that shocked the world.
Christie’s announces Property from the Collection of Richard L. Feigen, the renowned and influential American art dealer. Featuring early Italian and Baroque paintings, as well as 18thcentury British landscapes, several paintings from the Collection will be offered in the Old Masters sale in New York on May 2, 2019.
Showcasing important new acquisitions and masterworks from the permanent collection, the newly renovated North European galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art aim to envelop visitors in a new viewing experience.
New York, NY – Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art announces For Camera, a video exhibition of three works by Merce Cunningham. The exhibition will screen January 3 through February 27, 2019, as a part of High Line Channel—an ongoing series of video projections in the semi-enclosed passageway on the High Line at 14th St. For Camera is part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial, a celebration of Cunningham’s legacy, hosted at arts and educational institutions around the world.
As the Federal Government shutdown due to lack of funding continues, the Smithsonian Institution has been forced to close the doors of their 19 national museums and the zoo. With nonessential employees on furlough due to a lack of funds to pay their salaries, the institutions cannot operate without the government employees that staff them.
The Armory Show’s 2019 edition will present 194 galleries from 33 countries, bringing together an unparalleled presentation of international galleries in central Manhattan. Staged at Piers 92 & 94, the upcoming fair will feature a diverse breadth of compelling artworks—from new discoveries to historical masterpieces.
