Backstory: An artful history of art
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Michelangelo's David is the most famous statue. He also sculpted a smaller version, called Dave.
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Itâs been a bountiful year for the kinds of art finds â or at least the publicizing of them â that make fans of âAntiques Roadshowâ weep with envy.
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At New York's Guggenheim, an innovative exhibition sheds new light on the legacy of Spain's masters.
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Vivid but concentrated, this absolutely beautiful show presents, mostly through paintings, a cultureÂs version of its own origins.
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An art detective is poised to solve the mystery of what happened to âThe Battle of Anghiari,â considered by some experts to be Leonardoâs greatest painting.
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If you are new to contemporary art, you might find âArt:21 â Art in the Twenty-First Centuryâ a useful, mildly engaging introduction. Informed viewers will find it annoyingly superficial.
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Art advisers can help educate collectors about trends in the art world and introduce them to new galleries and artists.
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An artist known for contrasting nature and culture continues to explore visual and behavioral patterns with new videos.
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Black and white portraiture dominates âIsland to Island: Inspired Portraits,â the Hillwood Art Museumâs major fall show.
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Reviews of the ChloÃ©, Nina Ricci, Alexander McQueen, HermÃ¨s and John Galliano collections.
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Art education is a strange and surprising enterprise. It makes memories as important as celebration, traditions as crucial as innovation.
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In charting such a precise path from Mr. Serra to brand-new work with a YouTube following, the Whitney Museumâs new show historicizes a medium that is still in transition.
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Asia Societyâs glinting and glowing show of pre-Islamic art offers windows onto history, past and present.
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Nostalgia was in evidence during the men's collections in Milan. But as nostalgia trips go, this one had roots that dug maybe even as far as the Renaissance.
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The Metropolitan Museumâs show offers a supremely clear account of his maturation from brilliant, methodical young artist to a deeper, more lyrical, less predictable one.
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From Titian to Picasso and El Greco to Juan Gris, a new exhibition at Madrid's Prado museum is offering art fans the chance to see for themselves under one roof a cross-section of 500 years of Spanish portrait art.
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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan's "de Kooning: An American Master" traces the painter's history and plumbs the mysteries of his cryptic work in a remarkably lucid narrative.