A new exhibition at Asia Society captures the fleeting sensuality within the theaters, teahouses and brothels of Edo during the 17th and 18th centuries. A woodcut from the play, “A Medley of Tales of Revenge,” by Toshusai Sharaku In the theaters, teahouses and brothels of Edo, pleasure was a serious business. For a period during [...]
Curators at the Detroit Institute of Arts used research to find out how long visitors spend at each exhibit. Gathering data about visitors has never been as important, or as sophisticated, to museums as it is now. “A zillion other things are competing for our leisure time,” said Ford Bell, president and chief executive of [...]
Collectors, curators, museum directors and auction house experts have flocked here in record numbers in recent days to browse through Rembrandts, Warhols, opulent French furniture and rare antiquities at the European Fine Art Fair. Yet so far sales have been mixed, many dealers said. “It seems slower this year,” said Richard Nagy, a London dealer. [...]
The human race has been making art for thousands of years. Here, in chronological order, critic Martin Gayford chooses his 50 artistic wonders of the world. 1. Sculpture of Khafre (Chephren) (c2800 BC) Cairo Museum The painter Francis Bacon concluded that the ancient Egyptians were the greatest artists of all. No work supports that judgment [...]
A rendering of an overview of the entire CityCenter development. Maya Lin. Henry Moore. Frank Stella. Jenny Holzer. Nancy Rubins. And more. In Las Vegas. Really. As unlikely as it may have seemed even to them, those celebrated artists are the headliners of an ambitious $40 million public arts program initiated by MGM Mirage, the [...]
The Archibald Prize has been won by one of Australia’s rising art stars, Sydney painter Del Kathryn Barton. Her portrait, You Are What is Most Beautiful About Me, A Self Portrait with Kell and Arella, is of the artist with her son and daughter. Barton said the painting was “one of the most personal works [...]
“Rebus” by Robert Rauschenberg, 1955 Organized by Ann Temkin, a curator in the Museum of Modern Art’s department of painting and sculpture, “Color Chart” looks at contemporary artists for whom color functions as a ready-made — something to be bought or appropriated, rather than mixed on a palette. As Frank Stella famously quipped, “I tried [...]