Museums
Just after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers pulled off the single largest property heist in U.S. history, stealing 13 pieces of artwork worth as much as $500 million. For more than two decades, the FBI has chased leads around the...
The New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and More Star” conjures the strongest and most uncomfortable feelings of nostalgia I’ve felt in years – which is the whole point. The star-packed, vintage hodgepodge of political...
It took Jay DeFeo eight years to create The Rose -- a nearly 2000-pound painting that exudes qualities of a sculpture. Although it is her most iconic work, DeFeo's 40-year career before her death in 1989 spans beyond this masterpiece. “Jay...
Yang Xinguang, a young Chinese artist based in Beijing, set out to count the grains of sand in a pile as part of his piece titled "Counting Sand." He counted twice and arrived at two different numbers: 185,465 and 186,837. The artist says the process is like...
SHANGHAI — New York has Chelsea, the Lower East Side, Bushwick, and so on. Beijing has 798 and Caochangdi. Now ARTINFO introduces Shanghai’s best art districts.The M50 HubLike a bus terminus or a railway station, people arrive at the M50 hub with very...
The last week has been something of a rollercoaster of news about the Los Angeles museum world. First, after months — years, even! — of financial turmoil for the smaller institution, LACMA officially submitted a bid at the end of February offering merge with...
Court 13 is the New Orleans-based film collective behind “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” The Academy Award-nominated film - along with six major short films made by filmmaker Behn Zeitlin and fellow Court 13 director Ray Tintori - is the basis of a group of...
A private museum at the Moscow exhibition center famous for its grandiose Soviet-era exhibition pavilions has caused quite a controversy by putting on display a statue of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin.The statue was placed in a special dark room to...
PARIS — As often as Marc Chagall’s figures fly off the ground in his paintings, there’s often the impulse to bring the painter himself down to earth: hunt down historical considerations, to tie him to the real. The Russian artist lived through the 20th ...
The major 1994 Tate Gallery retrospective of artist R.B. Kitaj was meant to be the pinnacle of the artist’s career. Instead, it has since famously been known as his breaking point, when art critics heaped what one curator later deemed as “a cascade of vitriol...
