Bildende Kunst
NEW YORK — Up and down the streets of Chelsea, imposing gallery doors that are traditionally closed have been propped open. Dealers and art handlers are running in and out of galleries, piling the sidewalks high with debris and packing up artwork in crates....
NEW YORK — As the storm tides begin to recede, art dealers are among the many business owners left assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. From the Lower East Side to upstate New York, dozens of art institutions that we talked to — including R 20th...
MOSCOW — Last Wednesday, Red October Gallery opened a show by famed conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov that symbolizes the civilization and culture of the now-collapsed USSR, where both artists were born and raised....
Frieze Week in London is always crowded — with art, with parties, with gossip, and so on — but this year, the big fair doubled down, launching a new initiative, Frieze Masters, alongside the main Frieze London in Regent's Park.Throughout...
LONDON—Frieze Masters made a promising debut yesterday, but contemporary art is still where the excitement is. VVIPs rushed through the doors of the Carmody Groarke-designed Frieze tent at 11 am this morning — and strong sales were reported almost immediately...
Dreamt up by tank commander Mikhail Kalashnikov at the end of WWII, the AK-47 assault rifle is the most widespread and effective firearm in the world. Peace One Day, which advocates an annual global truce on September 21st, is now attempting to turn this...
William Klein's career is the stuff of art history books: his gritty portraits of cities — New York (1956), Rome (1959), Moscow, and Tokyo (both 1964) — have long been street photography landmarks, his fashion shots radically redefined the genre, and so did...
What are the most resonant works of art from the recent past? From among the thousands of individual works that pass through galleries and museums, which have affected the conversation in some significant way? Amid all of contemporary art's chaotic...
