NEW YORK â Johannes Vermeerâs âStudy of a Young Woman.â Peter Paul Rubensâ self-portrait with his family. Jacques Louis Davidâs portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife. These paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Artâs collection were made possible in part by the generosity of the longtime donor and trustee Jayne Wrightsman, who died in April at age 99.
NEW YORK â Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus remembers her father, William Louis-Dreyfus, swearing on the phone in the 1990s as he almost got outbid on a painting by Bill Traylor, the Alabama artist born into slavery who took up drawing around age 85.
When Annie Leibovitz was starting out as a photographer in San Francisco, she would toss her camera equipment into the back of her 1963 Porsche Cabriolet convertible and tear off to Los Angeles on Highway 5.
NEW YORK â The Metâs Roof Garden Commission is a rite of summer for New Yorkers and a world stage for artists lucky enough to be chosen. This yearâs fortunate selection is Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade, who will be presenting two abstract sculptures dominated by large metal frames that she described as âa kind of planetary system.â
Loic Gouzer, an irreverent maverick who led history-making sales of Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hockney, is stepping down as co-chairman of Christieâs Americas postwar and contemporary art at the end of this year, the auction house announced Monday.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has selected Kaywin Feldman of the Minneapolis Institute of Art as its new director, the first woman to hold the job in the museumâs 77-year history.
NEW YORK â Yes, you often have to peer around a column to glimpse the art that is up for sale at Phillips, given the poor sight lines in the auction house salesroom at 450 Park Ave.
NEW YORK â For the last six years, Kate Fowle has divided her time between Moscow, where she was until recently the chief curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and New York City, where she has been director-at-large at Independent Curators International (ICI).
The new structure, which will add 60,000 square feet of space, reflects how much New Yorkâs small, scrappy New Museum has changed since it opened on the Bowery in 2007, increasing its annual attendance to more than 400,000 from 60,000 and staff to 150 from 30.
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: ashtrays, cocktail napkins, wineglasses. At the Indianapolis Art Museum: doilies, neckties and womenâs underwear.
At a time when museums around the country are trying to diversify their collections, staffs and trustees, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced plans to sell Mark Rothkoâs âUntitledâ (1960), mainly to âaddress art historical gapsâ like works by women and people of color.
Three floors of exhibition space will retain a spine of chronology, but the museum will now mix media, juxtaposing painting, sculpture, architecture, design, photography, performance, film and works on paper.
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