This year, the art world was filled with dramatic, boundary-pushing moments that captured global attention. From environmental activists making bold statements on historic landmarks to record-breaking auction sales, the cultural landscape has been anything but quiet. High-profile art thefts, street art surprises and provocative installations...
What drives an artist to evolve, adapt, and find their voice in abstraction? For artist Ruscha Voormann, her journey has been shaped by profound mentorship, an enduring fascination with human movement, and the challenges of today’s socio-political landscape. Known for her large-scale, abstract picture compositions made...
Sitting down to a holiday feast with family can be a special time for loved ones can reconnect and enjoy some much-needed togetherness. It can also be a potential minefield, with politics and religion threatening to turn dinner into a family feud. Luckily, Artnet News is...
Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, he’s also been working on building a museum in Los Angeles,...
Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of early paintings by the American realist painter John Moore (b. 1941). These still lifes and architectural landscape paintings span from the late 1960s to late 1980s.Moore has been well recognized for his poetic realistic paintings of...
Larry Fink, the late photojournalist and art photographer whose work often depicted the glamour of the rich and famous, will have his photographs shown alongside the sculptures and paintings of his wife, Martha Posner, for the first time. Fink, who died in November 2023 at the...
They don’t call the Venice Biennale the art-world olympics for nothing. Even making it to half of the pavilions and collateral exhibitions is a serious feat of endurance and every art lover leaves La Serenissima regretting the many headliners and hidden gems that they somehow...
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is now a National Register-official historic landmark in Utah. Robert Smithson’s Land Art sculpture Spiral Jetty (1970) at Utah’s Great Salt Lake has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, signifying its cultural and environmental significance. Built with 6,650 tons...
What inspired Mary Cassatt’s portraits of mothers? Why did Jackson Pollock paint on the floor? Eureka investigates the origins of artists’ most famous works and techniques, unpacking how great art ideas happen. Two of the greatest 19th-century French luminaries, the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and the...
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino—known simply as Raphael to most—was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance, along with two other guys named Leonardo and Michelangelo. An artist of extraordinary refinement and deep feeling, Raphael was trained in the Umbrian style by the master...