Dynamic duo, gruesome twosome or just plain geeks in ties and tweeds, the British artists Gilbert & George don’t seem to care what you call them as long as you pay attention, which you couldn’t avoid doing if you tried in their suffocating and disordered wraparound survey at the Brooklyn Museum. Partners in life and [...]

Sotheby’s November 3, 2008 evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature an exceptionally rare masterpiece by Edvard Munch — Vampire, from 1894. This emotionally charged image numbers among the most iconic compositions in art history. A spectacular representation of love, sex and death, Vampire created a sensation when it was [...]

Vincent van Gogh “Landscape at Twilight” (1890) On paper, at least, “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” at the Museum of Modern Art reads like an obvious play for big box office and increased membership. But this exhibition largely dodges such charges and instead quietly displays 23 paintings, 9 drawings and several letters [...]

Telegraph.co.uk When I turn up at his London studio, Gary Hume is fast asleep. His assistant lets me in, and soon afterwards he shambles into view, rubbing bloodshot eyes. Wearing paint-splattered jeans, and with thick silver bristles flecking his face, he looks like he has spent a week getting well and truly wasted. In fact, [...]

Telegraph.co.uk In 1842, Richard Dadd, a popular and gifted artist of 24, set off from London on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East with Sir Thomas Phillips, a former mayor of Newport, who had employed him to document their journey in drawings and paintings. Within a year, however, Dadd had returned to [...]

The artist at his home and studio in Captiva Island, Fla. in 2005. Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82. Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture. A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in [...]

“Kobo” (1999) Ken Johnson writes: “What a transformation! The New Museum’s show of paintings by Tomma Abts is as quiet, spare and luminous as ‘Unmonumental’ – the big show of assemblages and collages that inaugurated the museum’s new building in December – was congested and noisy. Widely spaced on three white walls under a soaring [...]