Art & Exhibitions Poland Withdraws Its ‘Anti-European’ Submission to the Venice Biennale The snubbed artist has branded the move an act of "censorship." By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 8, 2024
Art & Exhibitions See Artist Gregor Gleiwitz’s New Paintings That Abstract Nature to Expressive Effect These swirling, kaleidoscopic canvases remain on view at Setareh gallery in Düsseldorf until January 20. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 5, 2024
Art & Exhibitions A Trove of Satirical Magazines, Made by a Legal Clerk in Hiding During WWII, Will Go on View in Berlin Curt Bloch filled these handmade, one-off magazines with photomontages and written verse. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 5, 2024
Museums & Institutions The U.K. Is Barring the Export of a Rare Medieval Statue Acquired by the Met. Will the V&A Snap It Up? The ivory treasure was on long-term loan to the V&A, before the Met acquired it for $2.5 million. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 4, 2024
Art World See a Microscopic Version of Banksy’s ‘Girl With a Balloon,’ So Tiny It Fits in the Eye of a Needle The delicate miniature was created by British artist David Lindon. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 4, 2024
Art World Plans to Install Contemporary Stained-Glass Art in the Notre-Dame Cathedral Spark Outrage An online petition signed by more than 125,000 people has harshly condemned the French president's proposal. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 4, 2024
Art & Exhibitions Witness the Power of Nicole Eisenman’s Observational Eye The artist marries art history and contemporary life in a major London show. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 3, 2024
Art & Tech A New X-Ray Analysis of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ Reveals a Hidden Base Layer Scientists have hypothesized that Rembrandt may have had a clever reason for applying the protective layer. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 3, 2024
On View A Long-Delayed Retrospective of Philip Guston’s Acerbic Paintings Finally Opens in London The controversial exhibition traces the artist’s incredible oeuvre. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 2, 2024
Auctions A $25 Brooch Turns Out to Be a Rare Victorian Treasure That Could Be Worth $19,000 A similar brooch rediscovered in 2011 more than tripled its high estimate to fetch $40,000. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 2, 2024
Studio Visit In Their ‘Epic’ Lofted Studio, Artist Baseera Khan Paints, Collages, Draws, and Dreams Take a peek inside the artist's Long Island City studio. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 2, 2024
On View See the Surreal Future Elmgreen & Dragset Imagine for Obsolete Libraries in Their Prague Show Surrealist paintings from the past mix with new conceptual installations to explore our changing relationship to books. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 28, 2023
Art History Art We Love: The Prickly Pleasures of an 18th-Century Caricature On Philip Dawe's 'The Macaroni, a Real Character at the Late Masquerade' (1773). By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 24, 2023
Art History Best Frenemies: 5 Notorious Rivalries in Art History These duos went from healthy competition to all-out war. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 19, 2023
Art & Exhibitions Long-Overlooked Abstract Painter Emily Mason Finally Gets Her Due at a New York Show Mason followed in the footsteps of her mother Alice Trumbull Mason, an early pioneer of abstraction in New York. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 19, 2023