The exhibition Canaletto: Bernardo Bellotto paints Europe at Alte Pinakothek in Munich from October 17, 2014 until January 18,...

Roth Time – the retrospective at MoMA QNS and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Dieter Roth (1930-1998) is an artist’s artist. In this, in the 20th century, he is probably only...

The Vienna Secession movement and of course the famous Wiener Werkstätte, co-founded with Josef Hoffmann, are unthinkable without Koloman Moser (1868-1918). He was multitalented man who...

Until September 1, 2013 the Kunstfoyer der Versicherungskammer Bayern in Munich is presenting an important Margaret Bourke-White exhibition entitled Moments in History...

Added on November 1, 2011: Beijing’s tax authorities have ordered Ai Weiwei to pay 15 million Yuan (€1.8 million) for “tax evasion”. Added on June 22. 2011: According to the...

The biography of Yves Klein, largely based on With the Void, Full Powers Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de Yves Klein was born in Nice (France) on April 28, 1928. His father...

The city of Basel currently holds two outstanding exhibitions: one about Van Gogh’s landscapes, the other about Alberto Giacometti. Both are highly recommendable. Here some...

The exhibition Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity was originally conceived at the Milwaukee Art Museum and then...

The works of Paul Klee (1879-1940) were considered “degenerated” (entartet) by the Nazis while they enjoyed an enthusiastic reception by key collectors and curators in the...

Thames & Hudson have re-edited in paperback Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, the book/catalogue (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk) which accompanied the landmark exhibition at The Metropolitan...

In his NYT review of the exhibition Degas at Harvard, Holland Cotter describes Edgar Degas as “a contrary, difficult man: a sociable misanthrope, a shy egomaniac, a cosmopolitan...

Everybody associates Edgar Degas with Paris, ballet dancers, horse races, etc. Only a few initiated people will associate this artist with Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. However,...

The Sensuous and the Sacred. Chola Bronzes from South India is an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Dallas...

The biography of Albert Barnes and the history of his foundation Biography added in January 2001: Albert Barnes was born in Kensington in 1872, a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. As...

The exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Barbara Haskell, hardcover, September 2000, 128 p. Get the catalogue from Amazon.com. Since Edward Steichen’s (1879-1973) death,...

After Detroit and Boston, the exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face — the Portraits makes the final stop of its tour at the...

The exhibition Klimt und die Frauen at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna, Austria, until January 7, 2001. Catalogue, English edition Klimt’s Women: Amazon.com,...

From the introduction in the book Fiction Reconstructed by Marina Grzinic. Published by the permission of the author. Order the...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the great artists of the 20th century. The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris dedicates a comprehensive exhibition to his — despite a publication by...

Hilary Spurling is no art historian, but a broadly acclaimed biographer (e.g.: Paul Scott). After eight years of research on the...