On View ‘Van Gogh, to Me, Is a Contemporary Artist’: David Hockney on What It’s Like to Show Alongside Your Idol The 81-year-old artist laughed off getting stuck in an elevator at the opening of the unprecedented exhibition. By Naomi Rea, Feb 28, 2019
Auctions Signac Sails to a Record While Van Gogh and Monet Bellyflop in Christie’s $220 Million London Impressionist and Modern Sale Missing its lofty expectations, the London sale was determined by the very different fates of two glamorous estate collections. By Colin Gleadell, Feb 27, 2019
On View See Works From Picasso’s Tender Early Years as They Take Center Stage at the Fondation Beyeler The artist's Blue and Rose periods are the focus of the exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. By Kate Brown, Feb 26, 2019
Analysis An Estimated 85 Percent of Artists Represented in US Museum Collections Are White, a New Study Claims A new study examined thousands of artists across 18 museums. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 18, 2019
Galleries The Famed Paris Gallery Bernheim-Jeune, Which Held the First van Gogh Retrospective in 1901, Has Closed The gallery also held the first Futurist exhibition ever to come to Paris in 1912. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Feb 14, 2019
Art & Exhibitions See Frida Kahlo’s Corsets, Prosthetics, Cosmetics—and Art—From the Brooklyn Museum’s New Blockbuster on the Artist’s Life and Work The museum is pairing the artist's work with the objects that often appear in portraits of Kahlo. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 7, 2019
Art World MoMA’s Top-to-Bottom Overhaul Aims to Diversify the Canon, Embrace the Present, and Show 1,000 More of Its Artworks It is also planning a programming partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem, which is currently closed for its own renovation. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 5, 2019
Events and Parties The Met Museum Envisions a Future Where Artificial Intelligence Helps You Find #Art Posts for Your Instagram The New York institution teamed up with Microsoft and MIT to create prototypes that imagine how AI can help museums engage audiences. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 5, 2019
Art World Fernand Léger’s Childhood Home in Normandy Will Become a Museum Dedicated to His Earliest Artistic Friendship The museum will explore Léger's early partnership with the Art Deco artist and decorator André Mare. By Naomi Rea, Jan 30, 2019
On View Really, Really Good Boy! New York Is Celebrating Man’s Best Friend With a New Museum Devoted to Dog Art and Artifacts The American Kennel Club's museum is home to everything from a 30 million-year-old dog skeleton to William Wegman photographs. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 29, 2019
People See the Strange, Haunting Final Paintings of 11 Famous Artists, From Michelangelo to Toulouse-Lautrec A new book by Bernard Chambaz explores the meaning behind an artist's last work. By Eileen Kinsella & Caroline Goldstein, Jan 28, 2019
Art & Exhibitions This Unsettling AI Version of Salvator Dalí That Greets You at His Florida Museum May Be the Most Surreal Thing Ever This spring, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg will unveil a new interactive, AI version of the artist. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 24, 2019
Rare Prints From Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Seminal MoMA Exhibition Are Going Under the Hammer By Artnet Auctions, Jan 17, 2019
Art Guides 22 Unmissable Museum Shows to See in the Americas, From a Mapplethrope Extravaganza to Joan Miró in New York Here's what museums have on offer this winter across the Western hemisphere. By Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, Jan 6, 2019
Art World These Are The 12 Biggest Controversies That Rocked the Art World in 2018 From resistance to the Met's new admission policy to outrage over museum funding, these were the biggest debates of 2018. By Javier Pes & Eileen Kinsella, Dec 27, 2018
