They help build a hidden visual foundation for Mehretu to then push each event into a visual cacophony. The ...

The thermometer read 100ºF, and that wasn’t anything special for August. It’s the kind of heat that really makes you appreciate air conditioning. As I explored the rock formations of northern Arizona, ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft” is an understated yet successful portrayal of life in turn of the century Tanzania.

Spotlighting artists like Sam Gilliam, Felrath Hines and Joe Overstreet, “Innervisions” underscores the breadth of Black abstract art since the 1950s.

China Daily invites Russian contemporary artist Anna Kazmina to the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou for an inspiring dialogue ... and decay rarely appear in Chinese paintings? As Western realism ...

Artists Jonathan Hodge and Garth Swanson are keeping it real with their twin exhibits at The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts on Magazine Street. Their takes on realistic painting, however, are on ...

Discourses of "realism" have been crucial to Chinese cinema since its beginning in the early 20th century, but what exactly is "realism"? Instead of having one steady meaning, realism gets redefined ...

San Antonio's Contemporary Art Month 2025 starts with a bang this Friday thanks to two kickoff shows at the Contemporary gallery at Blue Star. Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray, curator and ...

A Sanctuary Between Japan and AmericaMiyoko Ito’s work traverses the divide between past and present, and between one country and another.

Banksy always draws a crowd. Last night, some 500 people crammed into Sotheby’s to see how his 2005 painting, Crude Oil (Vettriano), would perform in the auction house’s annual March evening ...

The European Fine Art Fair is embracing the work by newer, younger and more modern artists. By Farah Nayeri The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht describes itself as a fair that spans 7,000 ...

Jack Vettriano, the immensely popular self-taught Neo-Realist artist, who by his own account painted to offer his audience escapism with his nostalgia-fuelled, romantic works, has died aged 73.