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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Artwork Is Appreciated Now More Than Ever
Decades later, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s complex works are increasingly prescient—and valuable
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German Abstract Art Pioneer K.O. Götz Dies at 103
His broad strokes and large-scale paintings helped re-establish Germany as post-war cultural hub
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Esperanza Spalding’s Pop Culture Loves
She may not own a television, but the Grammy-award winning musician definitely has her favorite books and films
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The World Trade Center’s Only Surviving Art Heads Home
Battered, but not broken, Fritz Koenig’s “Sphere” is being reinstalled near its original location at Ground Zero
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New Exhibit Captures Nearly Eight Decades of Protest Art
The show incorporates the various ways artists have responded to the politics and social problems of their times since the 1940s
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The annual show brings together some of the country’s best traditional and contemporary artists
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How Artists and the LGBTQ Community Made Wearing Trash Cool
Before hipsters descended on your local thrift store, repurposing discarded goods was a subversive art form
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Artists Can Now Buy One of the World’s Blackest Blacks
Singularity Black is not the blackest hue out there, but it is the darkest color currently available to the general public
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Two ‘Lost’ Alberto Giacometti Drawings Found in Antique Dealer’s Collection
The works were “buried under piles of dust-covered antiques, paintings and drawings”
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Tate Modern’s Modigliani Exhibition Ventures Into Virtual Reality
The upcoming retrospective couples works by the famed modernist with the museum’s first VR experience
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How This Tiny Town Drew World-Class Artists Into the Forests of Finland
Fiskars, Finland — an hour west of Helsinki — was a knife-making village on the decline. Now it’s one of the world’s most successful artist havens.
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Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Legacy of Lynching’ Exhibition Confronts Racial Terror
Video testimony and research findings supplement selections from the museum’s holdings
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This Animated Movie About Van Gogh Is Made Entirely of Oil Paintings
Loving Vincent will include more than 56,000 paintings
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New Archival Donations Put Edward Hopper’s Life in Sharp Focus
Thousands of drawings, letters and more are coming to the Edward Hopper House and the Whitney Museum
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How Colorized Historical Footage Is Painstakingly Made
Composite Films conducted 5,800 hours of research and poured over 27 miles of film to create our series America in Color
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This Dachau Survivor’s Harrowing Art Is on Display for the First Time
Georg Tauber’s paintings detail medical experiments, beatings and eventual liberation
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Take an Exclusive Sneak Peek Inside the Renovated Freer Gallery, Reopening in October
Charles Lang Freer gifted this meditative haven for art lovers to the nation and was James McNeill Whistler’s friend and patron
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Does the Narwhal’s Majestic Tusk Have a Point?
A Connecticut dentist, turned curator of a new exhibition, has long worked to solve the secrets of the whale’s characteristic horn
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What Kind of Footage Do Historical Colorists Like Best?
According to the historians and art directors from Composite Films who worked meticulously on America in Color, these were some of their favorite subjects
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New Video Game Parodies What it Means to Be an Art World Star
On Passpartout: The Starving Artist, you do everything from virtually impress collectors to dine on wine and baguettes
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