Over the weekend, Bay Area residents got a first look inside a $305-million addition to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The new ten-story building, clad with a rippling, glacier-like…
Today it was announced that Art in America, along with our sister publications (The Magazine Antiques and Modern) will join forces with ARTNEWS S.A. Peter M. Brant, who has owned Art in America since…
The marketplace for late 19th-century Impressionist art was rife with investment, speculation and sharp-elbowed business tactics. An exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) examines the…
A month ago, with no fanfare or press release and little signage to speak of, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art installed 17 major oil paintings by the British figurative master Lucian Freud. Th…
Dean Valentine, the trend-setting Los Angeles collector known for pursuing emerging artists, is opening an exhibition space named Bowmont Art to showcase his holdings. The first show includes works …
Though American collectors appeared to be in short supply, New York's Sperone Westwater reported sales to Asian buyers based on relationships formed at the recent ArtHK fair in Hong Kong—which Basel M…
The German pavilion took top honors at the 54th Venice Biennale, winning the prestigious Golden Lion for a moving elegy to the life and work of the late film and theatre director Christoph Schlingensi…
Warhol continued to dominate the spring contemporary auctions, taking the top slot at Phillips de Pury & Company last night. A turquoise portrait of the recently deceased Elizabeth Taylor in all her s…
Christie's auctioneer Christopher Burge usually rules the saleroom with an iron gavel. But last night, amid a rousing $301.7 million contemporary art sale, he lost control. For nearly 16 minutes, the …