Collector Sues David Geffen to Reclaim a Sculpture Worth Millions
In court papers, the collector says an adviser, without authorization, schemed to sell a Giacometti sculpture he bought for $78 million to the entertainment mogul.
In court papers, the collector says an adviser, without authorization, schemed to sell a Giacometti sculpture he bought for $78 million to the entertainment mogul.
In the 1960s, he built the Brockman Gallery, a vital venue for Black artists in Los Angeles. Here are glimpses into his life, art and legacy.
An accomplished artist himself, he and his brother created one of the few showcases in the U.S. for an emerging generation of Black artists in the late 1960s.
The artist, who died at 85, used Indigenous imagery like the canoe and the buffalo the way Warhol used soup cans.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
She began with modestly scaled abstract drawings and paintings but became best known for large works featuring collage and items evoking Native stereotypes.
In 1934, two young artists drove from Los Angeles in a beat-up car to Mexico, to create a powerful artwork about repression. It was concealed — and then forgotten.
Claire Tabouret, an artist in Los Angeles, was chosen to create new stained glass windows for the Paris cathedral. She never expected fires to shatter her sense of safety in California.
The brand has updated its 2003 collaboration with the Japanese artist.
Cannabis paraphernalia is joining the world of home décor. Here are some of the most interesting new designs and designers.
Rising Ground, a nonprofit with roots in the early 19th century, now houses statues of its founders that used to be on a campus in Yonkers, N.Y.
The 400,000-square-foot complex is listed for $170 million, and a sale could displace scores of artists and gallery owners, and other tenants.
A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs shifting to reflect the times.
Looking for something to do in New York? Catch Margaret Cho’s “sons” at Joe’s Pub, groove to 070 Shake or watch collections of animated shorts at the BAMkids Film Festival.
Unrelenting, unrepenting, the artist who made a name for herself with huge drawings of hairy phallic screws presents a world of work with exuberant energy over 60 years.
In “Stony the Road,” the photographer Dawoud Bey offers a captive’s-eye view of the Richmond Slave Trail.
President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to alleviate crowds at the Paris museum and to charge higher fees for visitors from outside the European Union.
With major gifts to leading arts institutions, Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu‐Tang have recently landed in the center of New York cultural philanthropy.
Jeff Keith, who runs a nonprofit, claimed he was behind some of the googly eyes that mysteriously appeared on public art in Bend, Ore.
“There’s always a few athletes that cross over into almost superhero world,” said an artist whose mural became a site of mourning when the N.B.A. star died in a helicopter crash.
Two art fraud rings in a remote Canadian city produced thousands of paintings sold in galleries as works by Norval Morrisseau, Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous artist.
Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers.
After becoming famous for extreme abstraction, she left Minimalism behind.
After establishing herself as a leading proponent of nonrepresentational art, she left it behind — along with her position in the art world.
The National Gallery of Art said it had closed its office of belonging and inclusion to comply with a presidential order.
In Orlando, he staged a blockbuster exhibition of works said to be newly discovered paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was fired when the paintings turned out to be forgeries.
The fair, with 77 exhibitors, is a mini-museum, featuring arts, antiquities and design objects, from old masters to art jewelry.
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The police said a man handed over a statue that he said he found in a plastic bag among trash bins.
The decision was an early salvo by the new administration against a military that President Trump has assailed for a variety of perceived offenses.
The National Gallery in London stayed open all night for die-hard fans of the Dutch painter. “Midnight offers more room for reflection,” one attendee said.
The Indonesian city is home to some of the greatest Hindu and Buddhist temples, a thriving food scene and an area known as the Cosmological Axis, a cradle of Javanese culture.
The French photographer Raoul Minot took clandestine photos of Nazi-occupied Paris. Now, his images serve as a reminder of the power of art.
Exactly why the sculpture was attacked by University of Georgia students may always be a mystery. But 70 years later, restored, it rides again.
A Cuban-born minimalist painter who spent much of her life in Puerto Rico, she was in her 90s when her erotically charged work first appeared at the Venice Biennale.
A collector says the Calder Foundation sunk the value of an $8 million mobile by Alexander Calder by deciding it was too damaged to still be viewed as a work by the artist.
It’s been 150 years since Monet and the Impressionists shocked Paris with their rebellious Société Anonyme show. How well do you know those once-revolutionary smudges?
Cineasta visionario, entre sus películas se encuentran “Cabeza borradora”, “Terciopelo azul” y “Sueños, misterios y secretos”, considerada su obra maestra. Llevó su singular visión a la pantalla pequeña con “Twin Peaks”.
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“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
To match Jack Shainman Gallery’s new Beaux-Arts flagship, the artist known for his Soundsuits debuts a sculpture nearly 26 feet high.
The fund, already at $12 million, is led by the Getty and includes major museums, foundations and philanthropists.
The artist Mary Miss agreed to the settlement, ending a yearlong battle to save her work. The museum said her piece, which it had commissioned, had become a safety hazard.
Ron Rivlin said he had lost about 30 works by Andy Warhol — and dozens more by other artists — when his Pacific Palisades home was destroyed.
Douglas Chrismas, who was found guilty last May on three counts of embezzlement from his gallery’s bankruptcy estate, is to report to prison on Feb. 17.
La fotografía reimagina un famoso cuadro del siglo XIX de cosacos radicados en el centro de Ucrania, con soldados ucranianos actuales en lugar de los legendarios guerreros.
A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.
The writer and painter Frederic Tuten, 88, insists, “I’m beginning again.”
Sky Gellatly is a matchmaker between artists and brands, and his eye for deals has resulted in some flashy, and lucrative, collaborations.
An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity.
Esta es la historia de cómo un escultor egipcio hizo realidad el sueño de toda su vida.
The authorities expanded mandatory evacuation orders to parts of the neighborhood on Friday night as the biggest blaze in the Los Angeles area grew rapidly.
A show by the artist Isabelle Brourman, who sketched the trials of Donald J. Trump, attracted figures from the art world, the media and some lawyers from his civil fraud trial.
Artists who lived and worked in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades are worrying about irreplaceable losses, and their livelihoods.
The new body will be easier to access and its decisions will be legally binding. But some lawyers and Jewish heirs are not happy with the reform.
In an era of fast fashion, some yearn for clothing with a personal touch.
With both supply and demand for big-ticket art in a slump, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are making major bets on selling handbags, classic cars and niche experiences.
Looking for something to do in New York? Bop for a good cause at Bowery Ballroom, meet some 150 dog breeds at the Javits Center, or celebrate the year of the snake in Queens.
Although Oldenburg made New York his home for 70 years, no public sculpture by the artist is on permanent view. Lever House is a temporary correction.
Paradigm-shifter for public art in the ’80s, groundbreaking (and openly queer) performance artist in the ’70s, Burton showed new ways of connecting.
In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.
For Freedoms’ billboards could surprise, comfort or confuse. Now the group is asking, Where do we go from here?
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
Her witty drawings, arresting sculptures and outlandish gadgets commented on consumerism, gender relations (she had transitioned), American car culture and more.
The 45-year-old architect had mostly designed temporary structures before becoming the first woman to design a wing at the country’s largest art museum.
A longtime vendor in Manhattan’s Chinatown is finding it harder to make a living as people shun his intricate crafts, haggle over cheap knickknacks and shift their spending online.
After our series on how artists have been affected by loss, we asked readers what helped them when they experienced it. These are 15 of their answers.
The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.
Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
Covid brought live performance to a halt. Now the audience for pop concerts and sporting events has roared back, while attendance on Broadway and at some major museums is still down.
After struggling with the Covid pandemic, the industry is now dealing with inflation, high interest rates and international conflicts.
Art fairs managed to survive the downturn brought about by the Covid pandemic and are on the rise again — a trend expected to continue in the coming year.
Joshua Frankel, an artist whose grandfather worked at the James Farley Post Office, has deep roots at the site of his new video project for Art at Amtrak.
In her new memoir, “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno looks back on the unending togetherness of family life during the pandemic.
Don’t be fooled by its generic title. Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years.
A storm, a pandemic, and Black Puerto Rican history pervade his work at MoMA PS 1, with materials sourced from daily life.
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With attendance surging back, the museum wants to offer “a moment of pleasure” — and relieve that Mona Lisa problem.
Plus France just beat Morocco to advance to the World Cup finals.
Projects all over the country include renovations and new wings as institutions continue to bet on bricks and mortar.
Though some small galleries are opening or expanding, the mega dealers have closed shop, a blow to an area with a vibrant artistic history.
A Russian-born painter, he created a mural of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev smooching the East German leader Erich Honecker — and with it a tourist attraction.
After a lengthy recovery, the artist comes back with the most vigorous work he’s made: “It took me a really long time to understand what had happened to me.”
The prices — $36.9 million for Monet paintings, and $52.8 million for a Francis Bacon — show that even as Britain’s share of the global art market has decreased, it’s an important player.
From “anti-monuments” to ephemeral sand portraits, four art exhibitions encourage viewers to slow down and take stock of our pandemic losses.
Broadway enthusiasts, art aficionados and food lovers will find new offerings in and around Times Square and in neighborhoods below 42nd Street, heralding the promise of a vibrant recovery.