"You can't exist in a vacuum, you are rooted in time."... Read More
The de Young museum has extended its exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s landscapes and botanical studies, created at Lake George in upstate New York between 1918 and the ear... Read More
The largest exhibition of Mike Kelley’s work will take up the entire space that is the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, from March 31 to July... Read More
“Plymell has as much to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about it in terms of the present generation stillborn into a world that can offer nothing.” —... Read More
Authorities in Munich in Nov-ember 2013 revealed that they had stumbled upon over 1,500 paintings, drawings, and etchings by artists including Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, and Klee. ... Read More
A Larry Rivers painting, drag queens using a phone booth as a changing room, and an animated group of partygoers emerging from the lobby elevator: These are some of the memories th... Read More
“What we did then is now art history.” — Herbert Vogel In 2008, film director Megumi Sasaki released the film Herb and Dorothy, a story of two unlikely art collectors... Read More
In the end nobody knows how it’s done — how art is made. It can’t be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn’t explain the magic o... Read More
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in the artist.” — Marcel Duchamp When he first met Marcel Duchamp in 1959, Calvin Tomkins was not the famous art critic he wo... Read More
When Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl was first published in 1956, it ignited controversy and sealed his reputation as a formidable poet. Influenced by Whitman’s free verse a... Read More
In May 2013, Christie’s contemporary art auction set record prices when paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, and others sold for a record $49... Read More
“My pictures are not that interesting nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts.” — Ed Ruscha Fifty years ago, contemporary artist Ed Ruscha publi... Read More
“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.” — Comte de Lautréamont The ripple effect of an influential life creates plot developments to rival the greatest novels. ... Read More
Through May 12, 2013, the Legion of Honor museum will feature the art of book design in the exhibition The Book and the Binding. It features unique selections from the Reva and Dav... Read More
If you’re reading this, then the world didn’t come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. But was that the real story behind the Mayan calendar end date? My cousin sends me letter... Read More