01/08/2020. Swiss painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton was an intriguing, talented but slippery artist. From painting to painting in “Felix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet,” a small survey of his career, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you often do...

09/17/2020. When performers take turns sweeping a pile of rice across the floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it might look like just that: People, one by one, sweeping a pile of rice across a floor. But if you look more deeply, this task — a soulful, ...

09/21/2020. In a video recorded in 1989, choreographer Trisha Brown demonstrates a few restless seconds of movement as dancers in her studio try to follow along. An arm darts across the torso; the legs appear to slip and catch themselves. It happens fast. As the...

09/29/2020. She was the greatest style icon of 20th century, whose designs still shape what we wear. Yet the Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel who emerges from the first exhibition ever dedicated to her work in Paris will come as a shock to fans of her brand's bling. ...

04/25/2021. When Dutch artist Renzo Martens presented his film “Episode III: Enjoy Poverty” at Tate Modern in London in 2010, he couldn’t help but notice the many Unilever logos painted across the museum’s white walls. Unilever, the Anglo-...

05/21/2021. One of the most infamous forgeries in United States history heads to auction for the first time in June at Heritage Auctions. The Oath of a Freeman, a pledge of loyalty and duty demanded of all new m...

09/20/2021. Yolanda López, an artist and activist who created one of the most famous artworks in Chicano history by boldly recasting the Virgin of Guadalupe in her own image — as a young, strong, brown woman wearing running shoes and a wide grin — died...

10/01/2021. Christie’s announces Classic Week, a marquee series of five live and three online auctions from 1-19 October including Antiquities, Books and Manuscripts, 19th century European Art, Old Mas...

10/15/2021. In the latest sign of the disruption underway in the art market amid the pandemic, three powerful alumni from Sotheby’s have joined forces to create a new company that will focus on the rapidly growing pool of buyers in Asia. Amy Cappellazzo,...

10/18/2021. Claus Böhmler, by his own account, was a “low-tech media artist”. During his in-depth investigations and observations he repeatedly explored not only current technological standards, but also those of the art establishment. Even early on as...

11/28/2021. There’s an object in the Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of Swiss polymath Sophie Taeuber-Arp that is so covetable, I wanted to squeeze it. It dates from 1922 and takes the form of triangles that lock together into an allover patter...

12/30/2021. Eve Babitz, the voluptuous bard of Los Angeles, who wrote with sharp wit and a connoisseur’s enthusiasm of its outsize characters and sensuous pleasures — from taquitos to LSD — and found critical acclaim and a new audience late in lif...

06/26/2022. The FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida on Friday, taking all 25 works that had been part of an exhibition on the life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the museum said. An affidavit filed to secure the search warrant called the collec...

11/03/2022. Steve Reich — one of our greatest living composers, with a recognizably pulsing sound and a place in the pantheon of minimalist pioneers — recently turned 86. It’s not the clean kind of age, usually in multiples of 5, that you often se...

06/13/2024. Before Philip Guston developed the loud and plush figuration of his renown, before he Anglicized his surname in adulthood, the 12-year-old known as Philip Goldstein joined the art staff of the Los Angeles Times Junior Club. The son of Ukrainian Je...