12/31/2008. The art world lost some singular and durable talents this past year. ArtDaily would like to remember those painters, sculptors, architects, photographers and collectors who left us in 2008. The list has been organized by date from December to Janua...

01/15/2020. As the story goes, one fateful night in the late 1960s, Jimi Hendrix, best known for changing the music world with his guitar playing, set free two ring-necked parakeets on Carnaby Street and that’s why thousands of the nonnative birds haunt Lon...

03/23/2020. Stephen Sondheim has been the composer and lyricist of 15 stage musicals and the lyricist for three others. The chief theater critics for The New York Times weigh in on all of them, dated by the approximate year of their composition or first Broadway...

03/27/2020. For tourists, this prim colonial town is the gateway to a spectacular mountain region dotted with wine estates. To most South Africans, however, it is the redoubt of the Afrikaner elite, a Calvinist town whose university trained the framers of aparth...

07/23/2022. As the founder and sole employee of Film Noir Cinema, Will Malitek appears to be the final movie rental clerk left in New York City. While his industry collapsed, Malitek flourished. Film Noir began in 2005 as a walk-in closet of recondite DVDs an...

08/26/2022. Jessamine Chan spent five years drafting her book. It was her first — a novel about a mother who loses custody of her toddler after one “very bad day” and then, in a surreal twist, is sent to an experimental “school for good mothe...

09/18/2022. The pilot episode of “M-A-S-H,” which aired on Sept. 17, 1972, on CBS, lets you know immediately where and when you are. Sort of. “KOREA 1950,” the opening titles read. “A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.” The Korean War could inde...

10/07/2022. David M. Solinger (1906-1996) was many things: a highly successful lawyer, among the first to specialize in advertising law, and legal representative to a number of leading artists; a transformational force as President of the board of the Whitney Mu...

01/01/2023. Barbara Walters, who broke barriers for women as the first female co-host of the “Today” show and the first female anchor of a network evening news program, and who as an interviewer of celebrities became one herself, helping to blur the li...

01/09/2023. Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University, in St. Paul, Minnesota, said she knew that many Muslims have deeply held religious beliefs that prohibit depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. So, last semester for a global art history cl...

02/16/2023. Personalized videos perform the best. But, why is that? For one your customers want stories about them. You can’t be monotonous with your brand messaging. It’s not anything new. You won’t find anyone saying, ‘That’s how it wo...

02/26/2023. One recent Saturday morning at Steps on Broadway, a rehearsal studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ballet dancers pirouetted to recordings of classical piano music while an instructor guided them. Some of the dancers were retired pros pract...

01/24/2024. We are facing the advent of the fifth industrial revolution together. As such a small individual, what can we do? When creativity and imagination can be replaced, what role will we traditional designers play? Renowned product designer Rulan Zheng wil...

03/28/2024. From the outside, it may seem like the northern lights dance across Iceland’s skies each night. On Icelandair ads, planes fly across shimmering curtains in the sky. On social media, travelers gaze at the green bands above them. The lights are ev...

04/21/2024. They used to call this waterlogged city the Most Serene Republic, but there is nothing serenissima about the opening days of the Venice Biennale. The world’s longest-running and most extravagant festival of contemporary art opens to the publi...