At the behest of the art-loving Obamas, Virginia Shore, the center’s curator of commissions, has contracted 30 artists to create works for the center. That’s just the beginning.

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

Artists have always recycled their era’s “Old Masters”: Romans quoted the Greeks, Rodin studied Michelangelo, and Picasso returned to Rembrandt, to name just a few. While the prevalence of these ...

A champion of contemporary art, she was the museum’s president for 11 years. She also founded the Art for Justice Fund, donating $100 million. Agnes Gund in 2014. Her long relationship with the Museum ...

In the close confines of an intimate gallery space at the Museum of Fine Arts, two titans of 20th-century art engage in an imagined pas-de-deux: Mark Rothko, the American Abstract Expressionist master ...

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin It ...

Celebrating four decades of boundary-pushing creativity, Saatchi Gallery’s 40th-anniversary exhibition The Long Now is a bold, atmospheric, and deeply reflective survey of contemporary art. Bringing ...

As a second-year psychology and physiology student, I have found myself in the trenches of monotonous prerequisites. However, between my Organic Chem and Psych Stats classes, I always manage to take ...

The devil is in the details, or, in the case of art history, the drapery. Just think of the elegant folds on the peplos of Greek caryatids or the fluttering peach mantle in Sandro Botticelli’s Birth ...

With ART SG, the region’s most influential international art fair, and the S.E.A. Focus showcase dedicated to art from Southeast Asia opening in Singapore this week, now is the right time to start ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

The MOA Museum of Art, teamLAB Planets and other institutions are shaping Japan's most compelling contemporary work, from Tokyo to Kanazawa.