"It's pointless to talk about painting," says Gerhard Richter, partway through Gerhard Richter Painting, a poignant new documentary. Cologne-based filmmaker Corinna Belz's feature-length portrait…
What exactly do we call Portugal Arte, the month-long show of contemporary art in and around Lisbon that opened this past weekend? It's casually being described as a biennial, although there's neither…
For L.A.-based street artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash, art is "simple" and the key to curating an exhibition is "Bring, bring, bring." The art world refuses to take him seriously, but the Fre…
On Sunday night, as Miami Basel's last lights were winking out, Kehinde Wiley was bopping around the back yard of the Shore Club in a floral-print suit, grinning, smoking, and greeting guests. He was…
Last night's National Arts Awards decorated a wide range of the creative world's heavy hitters. Ed Ruscha, Salman Rushdie, Robert Redford, and arts patrons Sidney Harman and Bank of America's Anne Fin…
The soundtrack of the new, muckraking art-world documentary The Art of the Steal, which screens tonight at the New York Film Festival, is laced with plot-thickening compositions by Philip Glass. The…
What are we to make of it then when Kostabi tells filmmaker Michael Sladek in “Con Artist,” Sladek’s new documentary about him, that he’s uncomfortable with the film’s title…