Tiffany Lamp Lights Up the Auction Block With Record $4.4 Million Sale
Of the dozens of Tiffany lamps Sotheby’s offered at its Dreaming in Glass auction in New York, none came close to matching the price achieved for the Magnolia...
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Why Contemporary Artists Are Raiding the Renaissance Toolkit
Artists have been raiding the toolkits of the Old Masters with new urgency of late, borrowing and reworking Renaissance and Baroque compositional drama,...
Metropolitan Museum receives $23m to endow internship programme – The Art Newspaper
On 30 April, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the Rubio Butterfield Foundation—led by the recently elected museum trustee Jennifer Rubio and her...
The 2026 Met Gala Dress Code is ‘Fashion is Art’. But is it?
Designer John Galliano (1960–) suggested as much when he said, “the joy of dressing is an art”. Dressing is an active practice and is vital for participation...
Met Gala 2026, Inside The Dress Code ‘Fashion Is Art’, What Does It Mean And What To Expect?
We are hours away from the Met Gala. Held on the first Monday of May, the event is one of the biggest nights in the fashion industry. The gala was first...
Here Are 8 of the Best Works We Saw Around the World in 2023
As another tumultuous year draws to a close, the team at Artnet News took the opportunity to look back at all the art we’ve seen since January. As always, the...
Henrique Faria On Venezuelan Art and Cultural Persistence
Installation view: Alfredo Boulton’s “The Eyes Of Venezuela” at Henriq1ue Faria in 2024. Photo: Arturo Sánchez As people turn their attention toward Venezuela...
John Wilson’s Enduring Art of Racial Politics and Personal Memory
Growing up near Boston in the 1950s and early 1960s, I picked up the suburban message that the city’s working-class Roxbury neighborhood was for me, as a white...
The Historical Art You’ve Probably Never Seen (opinion)
When the 20th century anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski wanted to debate economics, he went to the most remote islands he could find. His 1922...
NY’s Met bags major modern art injection
Nearly 200 works from the Dada and Surrealist movements, including “Ingres’ Violin” by Man Ray — the world’s most expensive...
