Artists Exhibitions Museums Uncategorized A Half-Century of Political Painting Packing Powerful Partisan Punch
Exhibitions Fairs Kinetic News Uncategorized Armory Week: Hand sanitizer, elbow-shakes, and lots of extraordinary art
Collectors Curators Exhibitions Stunning ‘Ninth Art’ works recall era when free expression didn’t risk death sentence
Artists Museums News Van Gogh Painting Stolen from Dutch Museum shut by the coronavirus March 31, 2020 Early Monday morning, thieves stole Van Gogh’s “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring“ from the Singer Laren Museum in Laren, …
Artists Exhibitions News Love in the Time of Corona: On Paul Chan and Digital Fourierism March 25, 2020 In 2019, Paul Chan called VR “the fucking worst.” Like many, Chan had become exhausted by the influx of unoriginal, …
Artists Exhibitions Museums Portraitist in the Moment March 24, 2020 I am so glad I was able to see this exhibition of large-scale paintings by Jordan Casteel (born in 1989) …
Galleries and Gallerists Paul Kasmin, 1960-2020 March 23, 2020 Paul Kasmin, the much-loved proprietor of the Chelsea gallery that bears his name, died today after a lengthy battle with …
Artists Exhibitions Museums Uncategorized A Half-Century of Political Painting Packing Powerful Partisan Punch March 20, 2020 “At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist.” Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) In the 1980s —I can vouch—the mean age …
Museums News The Art Must be Quarantined March 14, 2020 “The Museum will undertake a thorough cleaning,” reads last week’s statement from Met CEO and President Daniel Weiss, in a …
Auctions Collectors Exhibitions Fairs News Dealers Charge Into Asia Week Amid Coronavirus Scare March 12, 2020 Asia Week New York launches its 11th edition today with a roster of expert dealers and institutional affiliates convening to …
Exhibitions Fairs Kinetic News Uncategorized Armory Week: Hand sanitizer, elbow-shakes, and lots of extraordinary art March 10, 2020 Every March, Armory Week dominates the New York art scene with its numerous art fairs and special events. Its namesake, …
Collectors Curators Exhibitions Stunning ‘Ninth Art’ works recall era when free expression didn’t risk death sentence February 28, 2020 On January 7, 2015, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi stormed the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Identifying themselves …
Artists Exhibitions News Enigmatic street artist JR Goes Massive in Domino Park February 24, 2020 Can Banksy be outdone by another street artist? The answer is yes, at least with regard to magnitude. In early …
Exhibitions Museums The Most Dangerous Power: ‘Energy’ at MoMA February 05, 2020 It turns out energy, not money, is what drives the world, and energy is much more frightening. The curiosity, naïveté …
Artists Exhibitions News Hans Haacke retrospective at New Museum hacked February 04, 2020 In its final week of display, Hans Haacke’s ‘All Connected’ retrospective at the New Museum was hacked, dramatically skewing the results …
Artists Exhibitions News Here is Williamsburg January 22, 2020 To O.S. Williamsburg is a peculiar beast. Between Supreme’s three-block-long line on Thursdays and tourist rush on the weekends, at …
Artists Exhibitions Fairs News Outsider Art Rings in New York’s Fair Season January 17, 2020 Now in its 28th year, the Outsider Art Fair kicks off a season of New York fairs, with the Winter …
News Prominent Art Dealer Endures Ordeal En Route to Dallas December 29, 2019 Avery Andon, the jet-setting owner of the contemporary art gallery ArtLife, claimed on Instagram this morning that his fiancée …
News Ognjen Simic, 1965-2019 November 17, 2019 The Fine Art Globe lost a family member today. Our great writer, Ognjen Simic, has died by suicide, at age …
Museums Woman! Rachel Feinstein Poses Deep Questions Through Sculpture December 26, 2019 She is masturbating while lying on her belly, bigger than body size, sensitive to every brush of the skin, enjoying …
Artists Exhibitions Museums News Uncategorized The 2019 Whitney Biennial – Catalyst for a Political Stance July 29, 2019 This past week Eddie Arroyo, Christine Sun Kim, Augustina Woodgate, and the collective Forensic Architecture joined Korakrit Arunanondchai, Meriem Bennani, …
Artists Exhibitions Jean-Michel Basquiat at Brant Foundation: ‘Every Single Line Means Something’ April 17, 2019 The solo exhibit, which spans four floors and features nearly seventy of the artist’s works, celebrates the inauguration of The …
Artists Exhibitions Museums Portraitist in the Moment March 24, 2020 I am so glad I was able to see this exhibition of large-scale paintings by Jordan Casteel (born in 1989) …
Museums News Uncategorized Robust Protest at Whitney a Week Before Biennial May 10, 2019 With a week to go before the May 17 grand opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art biennial, visitors …
Artists Exhibitions News China to New York – Jia Aili Opens at Gagosian April 01, 2019 Chinese art star Jia Aili defies ups and downs of the Asian art market
Museums Uncategorized I Want You To Want ‘Us’: Collaboration Works June 12, 2019 As readers of Fine Art Globe know, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently welcomed a different type of art — a …
Artists Exhibitions Catherine Opie’s ‘The Modernist’ and Kyle Meyer’s ‘Interwoven’ Offer Divergent Visions of the Future November 16, 2018 There were a number of openings of acclaimed artists in New York City on the evening of November 1st, but …
Collectors Exhibitions Museums The Studio Museum in Harlem in Charleston, SC July 31, 2019 Black Refractions, found on the top floor of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, opens strong with a …
Museums News The Art Must be Quarantined March 14, 2020 “The Museum will undertake a thorough cleaning,” reads last week’s statement from Met CEO and President Daniel Weiss, in a …
Artists Curators Exhibitions Museums News Performance Preview: The Best Art of 2019 February 12, 2019 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci death – host of exhibitions open worldwide to …
Artists Exhibitions Fairs News Fashionably Attended ArtBerlin Showcases Solid but Unadventurous Works September 20, 2019 BERLIN—The annual ArtBerlin fair, which opened last weekend in Germany’s capital against a backdrop of beautiful September weather, presented a …
Artists Exhibitions Ric Ocasek Lets the Good Times Roll October 21, 2018 In John Waters’ delightful 1988 film Hairspray there’s a bit where Tracy Turnblad and friends are being pursued by the …
Artists Curators Exhibitions News Alexander Archipenko’s Cubist Sculptures – an Interplay of Space and Light November 29, 2018 More than a hundred years ago, Ukrainian-American artist Alexander Archipenko pioneered the use of the Japanese concept Ma in cubist sculpture. …
Recent Comments