09/26/2024. Sir John Lavery (Irish, 1856-1941) is best known for his portrait painting, but he was also well-respected for his 'painting of contemporary history' of which this is one of the most famous examples. The Ratification of the Irish Treaty in the House ...

09/26/2024. When Rufus Norris became the director of the National Theater in 2015, he said he had one main aim: to make the playhouse representative of Britain. Almost a decade later and as Norris prepares to leave the role, he said he had made progress towar...

09/26/2024. The dolls are small. The award is big. The dolls in question are L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. dolls, several-inch-tall plastic dolls with big eyes and colorful hair — part of a line of L.O.L. Surprise! dolls that often come in opaque packaging and...

09/26/2024. About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift presents contemporary works by Bay Area artists from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s collection. The ten Bay Area artists featured in About Place, Guillermo Galindo, Postcommodity, Chris...

09/26/2024. Whatever might be found inside a tastefully-decorated New Jersey residence is also likely to appear eventually at an auction produced by Sterling Associates. Owned and operated by Stephen D’...

09/26/2024. After an ambitious New York gallery announced in 2021 that it would sell Hunter Biden’s paintings for as much as $500,000, some ethics experts and House Republicans expressed concern that such high-priced works from a novice artist could become ...

09/26/2024. Naftali Herstik, whose soulful, resonant tenor and elegant interpretations of Jewish liturgical music made him one of the most renowned and influential cantors of his time, died Sept. 1 at his home in Ra’anana, Israel. He was 77. His son Neta...

09/27/2024. White Cube announced global representation of Alia Ahmad (b.1996, Riyadh). Ahmad’s new painting, جال | Shore (2024), will be on view at the gallery’s booth during Frieze London, while Finood 2/فنوž...

09/27/2024. Revived for 2024, Firsts Hong Kong brings the former China in Print fair under the Firsts umbrella in the impressive location of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum from 6 to 8 December. Firsts ...

09/27/2024. Few collecting categories can rival gas and oil advertising signs for color, imaginative graphics or the level of bidder enthusiasm they generate at auction. That has been proven time and again at <a href="http://www.morphyauctions.com" target="_blan...

09/27/2024. George Balanchine’s decision to stage the 19th-century ballet “Coppelia,” in 1974, was a surprise. Although Balanchine, the co-founder and leader of New York City Ballet, occasionally created narrative ballets, like “The Nutcracke...

09/27/2024. Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is a bursting-at-the-seams hallucination of a movie; it’s wonderfully out there. At once a melancholic lament and futuristic fantasy, it invokes different epochs and overflows with entrancing, ...

09/27/2024. In artworks exploring unequal power dynamics across a wide swath of history, Kara Walker has long called attention to the most inhuman tendencies of people. Now, in a new installation in the country’s tech capital, she is highlighting the superh...

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. Collectors in search of rare high-denomination banknotes will have an opportunity to quench their thirst when a scarce Canadian treasure crosses the block in Heritage’s World Paper Money SignatureŽ Auction October 17. Canadian Chartered Bank ...