Kunstmuseum Basel presents today Pablo Picasso: Prints, on view through May 24, 2009. Pablo Picasso applied himself with great intensity to the specific possibilities of print techniques. From woodcuts and etchings to lithographs and linoleum cuts, he employed every known printing method with stupendous ease and mastery, developing complex mixed techniques and experimenting with polychrome [...]

Candy box displays like “Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna”at the Metropolitan Museum are natural crowd pleasers: They’re very much about comparison shopping and personal taste. History is here if you want to find it; but if you don’t, that’s O.K. Enjoy.

“Study of a Young Woman Viewed in Full Length, Her [...]

Melting clocks, Mae West’s lips and a twenty foot high Space Elephant are just a few of the extraordinary works of art on display at the Dali Universe. Enter the genial mind of the greatest surrealist, self-publicist and creative genius of the Twentieth Century, Salvador Dali, in this stunning, permanent 30,000 square foot retrospective located [...]

Realist painter whose work was much loved by the US public but divided the critics

Andrew Wyeth, who has died aged 91, was America’s best-known painter. Even his models became famous just for being his models: one was the subject of a biography, another, his neighbour Helga, was the centre of scandalised speculation because the series [...]

Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered, museum-quality painting Concetto spaziale of 1961, by Italy’s foremost Contemporary artist Lucio Fontana** (1899-1968). From the artist’s celebrated Venezia Series, Concetto spaziale is completely fresh to the market and has been hidden from public view for almost 50 years. The oil on canvas will [...]

When works by the British artist Damien Hirst sold for a record $127 million on the same day in September that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, it seemed the art market might escape the economic crisis. But a string of disappointing auctions over the last four months showed that the art market had no [...]

The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art will be on view at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame from January 11 to March 15, 2009. Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, the exhibition features 53 works on paper produced in the 16th, [...]