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Valentino evening dress in the Met’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition in 2018. Source.

Is Fashion Art? The Met and Sotheby’s Answer

Although museums have long housed clothing in “costume institutes” removed from their painting and …

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Drawing

Haring painting the backdrop for the Palladium nightclub, 1985

Comics Enter the Fine Art Market at David Zwirner, London

A Love of the Female Form in Renoir’s Drawings

Six Decades of Ruth Asawa’s Sculptures at MoMA

Fair

Petra Cortright, NOBLEcurve, 2025, HD digital video, music by Jacob Gryn, 11:22, photography by Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of Interval and Independent.

How Independent is Revitalizing the Art Fair Model

Highlights from SP-Arte 2026

Frieze LA's Resilient Return

Latin American Art

Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, Reflejos de Naranjas Chinas, 2024, Oil on linen, 36.61 x 42.32 in, 93 x 107.5 cm

True South: The Rise of Latin American Art

Director Carla Gutierrez Examines Frida Kahlo’s Life Through Film

8 Latin American Artists You Should Know More About

Museum

The Palisades fire at the Getty Villa’s Cafe. The museum’s buildings escaped damage but the landscape did not.

Healing From the Burns: How The Getty Recovered From the LA Fires

How LACMA Is Centering Curation Around Cross-Cultural Exchange

The Parma Heist and Europe's Escalating Museum Security Crisis

Design

Daniel Arsham Studio

How Multimedia Artist Daniel Arsham Builds a Creative Life

The History Behind Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Awards

The Art of Design: A Rediscovery of Vienna's Interior Style

Ancient Art

An archeological site in Malatya, Turkey. Source.

A Record for Repatriation: Turkey Reclaims Its Cultural Heritage

Consider this Before Buying an Ancient Coin Necklace or Jewelry

The Iconography of Zoroastrianism, the Oldest Monotheistic Religion

Indigenous Art

Bill Schenck, Seven Yearlings along the Wash, 2012.

Santa Fe: The Origins of an Art City

Jeffrey Gibson’s Celebrated Venice Biennale Exhibit at The Broad

Indigenous and Native American Art at Santa Fe Auction

Sculpture

Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth installation image at The Bruce Museum, 2026.

Sculptures at The Bruce Explore the Energy of the Natural World

7 Depictions of David in Renaissance & Baroque Art

The New Museum Reopens with a Focus on Modern Technology

LGBTQ Artists

Frances Cranmer Greenman, Self Portrait, 1923. Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Jennifer Dasal’s New Book on The American Girls’ Club for Artists

Preview Laurence Philomene’s Masterful Monograph: "Puberty"

Eisenman’s Paintings Back in NYC Art Scene at Hauser & Wirth

Gallery

John Kane, John Kane and His Wife, c. 1928. “Untrained” doesn’t mean unskilled.

A Century of Inventing Artists at the American Folk Art Museum

Why Yoko Ono's First LA Museum Show Matters

The Academy Museum Reclaims the Real Marilyn Monroe

Antiques

Euros bills hanging to dry on a clothes line

How Money Laundering Works In The Art World

Art 101: What was Art Nouveau?

Maison Gerard Celebrates 50 Years With Historic Art Deco Pieces on View

Women Artists

Marc Vaux (1895-1971), Bal costumé pour les 30 ans de la Galerie B. Weill (Berthe Weill assise au centre, en smoking), 13 décembre 1931. Collection Marianne Le Morvan, don de Jeanine Warnod

Berthe Weill: The Mother of Modernism

How Lois Dodd’s Paintings Frame Everyday Life

How UNESCO Is Protecting Traditional Art Practices

Painting

Portrait shot of Petersen

Studio Shop Gallery Celebrates A Figurative Artist's Centennial

Annette Hur’s Landscape Paintings Speak a Language of Color

Visual Art and Jazz: A Crossover of Media

Contemporary Art

Jeffrey Magid standing in front of Henry Taylor's / was King When I Met the Queen, Syllable x Rythm Equals Mumbo Jumbo, 2013.

From Poker to Paintings: How Jeffrey Magid Learned to Collect Art

How to Collect Contemporary Art: A Conversation with Mark Diker

From Matisse to Warhol: The Return of the Modernists

Asian Art

Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, 1874. Oil on canvas. 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Life and Art of Edgar Degas

Kintsugi Pottery Mending: Fragile Art for the Anxious Mind

Qi Baishi’s Inspiration in Ink: A Culturally Immersive Experience

Auction

Graffiti of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Eme Freethinker and Pen Chill in Berlin. WikiCommons.

What a $45 Million Basquiat Says About the Art Market Right Now

Artists Fight for Intellectual Property Rights

A "Golden Period" Violin Sells At Sotheby's

Renaissance

Da Vinci's Vitruvian man from the chest up- a figure of a man with four arms in a circle

The History and Influence of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man

Michelangelo: Exploring the Master's Art and Life

The Theories Behind Da Vinci’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”

Black Artists

Jacob Lawrence, Harriet Tubman Series (Panel #4), 1940. Tempera on hardboard, unknown dimensions, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia.

A Look into the Harlem Renaissance

An Intimate Exploration of Culture and Memory at NXTHVN

The Life and Art of Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum

Modern Art

Paul Cézanne, Pommes et oranges, 1899.

ART 101: Cubism

Claude Monet's Life & Works in 11 Surprising Facts

Abstract Expressionism: A Brief History & Exploration

Photography

Sculpture set up for photography at the J. Paul Getty Trust.

The Art of Photographing Art

The Politics of Presidential Portraiture

Catherine Opie’s “To Be Seen” and The Politics of Photography