Museums
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...
SINGAPORE — An intricately beaded table cloth, an ornate wedding bed, and blingtastic gold jewelry are among the precious artefacts heading to Korea next month as part of a travelling exhibition of Peranakan art and culture from Singapore. Running from...
For Chicago artist Ryan Travis Christian, changing gears halfway through his first museum show was a bit scary. But it was exciting, too.It took Christian four days to fill the paper sheet stretching 6½-by-30 feet and push-pinned to the white museum...
Last summer the space shuttle Enterprise arrived at its new home aboard the USS Intrepid in New York City. But a few short months later, the shuttle was damaged by Hurricane Sandy. ARTINFO’s Vanessa Yurkevich went on board the Intrepid to check out the...
Roy Lichtenstein is one those artists so iconic for his signature style — the radical use of comic strips’ iconography and Ben-Day dots that made him a leading figure of Pop Art — that his fuller artist’s trajectory and larger body of work often go overlooked...
