09/27/2024. Paul Simon walked onstage to a rousing ovation in a royal purple jacket for a casual downtown evening — as laid back as something with about 150 guests could be — at the SoHo Sessions loft in NoLIta on Monday just after 8 p.m. for a small b...

09/27/2024. Pace announced its representation of artist Li Hei Di, who explores human embodiment, displacement, and intimacy in luminous paintings that blend abstraction and figuration. In their vibrant, dreamlike canvases—where ghostly, translucent bodies ...

09/27/2024. As collectors and art lovers converge in London for Frieze, Sotheby’s galleries on New Bond Street will unveil some £220 million / $280 million worth of art for a public exhibition spanning some of the greatest modern and contemporary artists. T...

09/27/2024. Through the lens of visual artist Haiying Nie, the ocean is both a sanctuary of vibrant beauty and a fragile landscape under siege. Her latest series, Distorted Ocean, brings together art, environmentalism, and a deep technical mastery of photography...

09/27/2024. Today, the boundary between humans and machines is becoming increasingly blurred. Baudrillard once used original concepts such as "simulation," "implosion," "model," and "code" to describe a hyperreal cultural landscape where the boundaries between v...

09/27/2024. The 1990s: a decade marked by bright neon splashes, memorable music, and quirky pop culture that continues to captivate us. Whether you were a 90s kid or a curious onlooker from another generation, there's much to appreciate about the era that introd...

09/28/2024. Rarely seen objects from the V&A collection to go on display including the newly restored Kochi Ceiling suspended at height, which will be shown for the first time in over 70 years. It was announced today that the V&A has received initial support*...

09/28/2024. Rembrandt’s 1661 double portrait “Two African Men” is a rare depiction of free Black men in 17th-century Amsterdam and a particularly prized work in the collection of the Mauritshuis, a jewel-box museum of Golden Age masterpieces in Th...

09/28/2024. With the look of a jagged-edge spaceship brought to Earth and illuminated from almost every angle by the ever-present Gulf sunshine, the Qatar National Library stands out among the growing number of celebrity architect-designed libraries. The 485,...

09/28/2024. Montreal’s wide-ranging music scene has been one of its calling cards for decades, with border-crossing success stories like ambitious rock band Arcade Fire, arty electro-pop artist Grimes and renowned post-rock modernists Godspeed You! Black Em...

09/28/2024. Back in 2004, the ALBERTINA Museum presented an exhibition on Chagall's exploration of the Bible as one of the first exhibitions under the direction of Klaus Albrecht Schröder. 20 years later, around the 40th anniversary of the artist's death, the AL...

09/28/2024. Maggie Smith, one of the finest British stage and screen actors of her generation, whose award-winning roles ranged from a freethinking Scottish schoolteacher in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” to the acid-tongued dowager countess on “...

09/28/2024. A major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. Spanning the years 1915-1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records docu...

09/28/2024. When a London judge handed down prison sentences Friday to two climate activists, who threw soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” he said he wanted to deter protesters from trying similar stunts. Judge Christopher Hehir sentenced...

09/28/2024. The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has been closed and under renovation since 2021, is not scheduled to open until May 2025. But a recent early peek at the wing’s refurbished galleries already reveals bright...