The Crayola scrawl that your mom taped to the refrigerator wasn’t as good as the centerpiece of “Michelangelo’s First Painting,” a show, busy with

This week in the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Arshile Gorky retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In this audio slide show,

If you’ve missed out on the avant-gardish art of the past couple of decades—some people make a point of doing so—you now have a one-stop chance to

There’s a new old art star in New York this winter: Agnolo Bronzino, the sixteenth-century Florentine painter, whose entire corpus of some sixty known

Ahmad Zakii Anwar, known as "Zakii" to colleagues and countrymen, has become the main man of Malaysian contemporary art by remaining its odd man out.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Picasso painting "The Actor," which suffered damage last Friday, wasn't the first valuable piece of artwork harmed accidentally by a museum-goer or owner.

At first, Noah Davis' exhibition at Roberts & Tilton looks like another rehash of Surrealism seen through the lens of gestural painting. Dream-like c

Nira Pereg's three-channel video, "Kept Alive," is an engrossing meditation on some of the physical and social implications of death and burial in Isr

I strongly suspect that many of the people who have lately been showing up at the Museum of Modern Art are somewhat surprised to find themselves there

What was Thomas P. Campbell's toughest challenge after being plucked from the curatorial ranks as the trustees' unexpected choice to succeed Philippe

Art is a product of its environment. Northern European artists make work different from that of Mediterranean artists; and the art of the provinces is

Asher Edelman with Edouard Manet's 'Berthe Morisot on a Divan' in his office in New York. Mr. Edelman is entering the fast-growing field of art financ

First in a series of MutualArt.com art market analyses reviewing highlights of the international auction scene. In today's newsletter: a snapshot of the photography market which illustrate clear signs of recovery in the second quarter of 2010, as various mid-April auction...

Shirin Neshat, I wrote in 2007, was making a full-length feature film. Neshat, who was born in Qazvin, Iran, had told me that she hoped her film would

The optical lushness of gold-toned silver printing collides with the visual decrepitude of ruined and half-built houses in the desert in photographs