10/14/2019. This landmark exhibition of major loans from museums and private collections throughout the world shows how Gauguin used portraits primarily to express himself and his ideas about art. Although he was fully aware of the Western portrait tradition,...

10/16/2019. Taking a cue from beat writer Jack Kerouac, Curator Larry Ossei-Mensah travels around the world exploring and observing how visual artists interpret issues of freedom and identity in a time of political and social unease. For "On the Road II," named ...

10/18/2019. The physical environments of art fairs tend to be utilitarian convention halls, although there are some — like the Frieze fairs in London, New York and Los Angeles, with their light-filled, architect-designed tents — that try to boost the a...

10/21/2019. In 1969, Betye Saar made an artwork that would prove pivotal in her career. Taking an old window frame, she filled its 10 sections with a constellation of images. Across the top three panels, she placed colorful printed moons and stars, evoking th...

10/21/2019. Hours before flying off to her debut show in Toronto, Ooloosie Saila, a rising star in the Canadian art world, was hiding in her grandmother’s room on the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean, cowering in fear. Between her and the future stood the...

10/23/2019. From 23 October 2019 to 16 February 2020, the Städel Museum is devoting an extensive exhibition to the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). It focuses on the creation of the “legend of Van...

10/23/2019. The Art Gallery of New South Wales announced that Melbourne based artist Nusra Latif Qureshi is the 2019 recipient of the $80,000 Bulgari Art Award. The first time the award has been gi...

10/23/2019. The Museum of Modern Art opened Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape, an exhibition of nearly 75 works from MoMA’s collection selected by Sillman (b. 1955), an artist who has...

10/23/2019. Travelers in Miami International Airport’s Concourse D can now view the iconic, hyperrealist sculpture Football Player, created in 1981 by internationally renowned American artist Duane...

10/26/2019. The Clay Art Center Board of Directors welcomed Emily Peck as its new Executive Director. She succeeds Interim Executive Director Cora Greenberg. “Emily’s unique experience at th...

10/27/2019. Laura Berry, a Lithuanian bartender living in Hawaii, was on a mission. Standing in a room that held a 13th-century ceramic mihrab, or prayer niche, from Iran, she was counting how many human figures were on the Persian lusterware tiles that lined th...

11/02/2019. The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is presenting an exhibition in celebration of the centenary of the Bauhaus, the influential school founded in Weimar, Germany, that unified fine arts, d...

11/04/2019. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Julie Mehretu, a mid-career survey co-organized with the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition unites nearly 40 works on paper with 35 paintings...

11/07/2019. Chance & Control draws on the V&A’s rich international collection of computer-generated art. The exhibition includes more than 40 works by pioneering artists of the 1960s and 70s such as Frieder Nake and Georg Nees – who produced some of th...

11/07/2019. Last week, after employees at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles announced that they were taking steps to form a union, the museum issued a statement saying it looked forward to “engaging with them to learn more about their requests....