A Corner of the Artist’s Room in Paris (with Open Window), Gwen John. National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff.
“I am not myself except in my room,” wrote Gwen John to her erstwhile lover, Rodin, and her room has its own personality. The soft sunshine, the wicker chair, the open book, the window opening on [...]

A man looks at Joan Miró’s “Jeune fille s’evadant”, 1967 at Bancaja Foundation.
The Bancaja Cultural Center presents Joan Miró. Evoking the Female Image, on view through June 21, 2009. The exhibition was organized together with the Joan and Pilar Miro Foundation. Women as a theme run through all Miró’s work. It was an early allure [...]

Lawrence B. Salander, right, and his wife, Julie, tried to restrain their son Jonah as he confronted a photographer in 2007.
A noted Upper East Side art dealer has been indicted on charges he stole $88 million from investors and collectors who consigned artwork to him and said they were cheated out of the sale [...]

The splendid new exhibition at the Royal Academy of 19th-century woodblock prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi is dominated by scenes of heroic samurai warriors, fighting to the death, teeth bared and eyes bulging as they grapple with tigers and strange monsters or fend off the flying arrows or slashing swords of their enemies. The show is [...]

Marcel Duchamp’s proclamation “For Arp, art is Arp” serves as the title for one of the most comprehensive retrospectives on Hans Arp ever undertaken. The Arp Museum Bahnof Rolandseck is showing the exhibition “Art is Arp” with over 100 drawings, collages, sculptures, and reliefs as well as ca. 80 texts, photographs, and documents through June [...]

Works of art that belonged to Gianni Versace sold at a London auction on Thursday for almost three times the presale estimate, despite the fact that a star attraction had been pulled on suspicions its was stolen.
In 12 hours of heated bidding, the 545-lot sale of the treasures from the late fashion designer’s 19th-century Italian [...]

Visitors view Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Irises’ at the Getty centre. Photo: REUTERS
A spokesman for the Paul Getty Trust said its investment portfolio fell to $4.5 billion in the second half of 2008, down from $6 billion the previous year.