‘Under the Well of the Great Wave Off Kanagawa (Great Wave).’ Courtesy Christie’s The 19th-century Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai has long been renowned for the legendary stormy scene depicted in …
The National. gillian hayes Scotland’s vibrant capital city is a destination steeped in history and brimming with character with loads to see and do. Edinburgh Castle looms over the skyline …
Richard Avedon planning his retrospective exhibition at New York’s Marlborough Gallery in 1975. Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images May of last year marked the centenary of photographer Richard Avedon’s birth, …
Posters for the upcoming Olympic Games (left) and Paralympic Games (right). Courtesy Paris 2024 Organizing Committee A surfing wave in Tahiti, a pair of breakdancers and some 40,000 hand-drawn figures—these …
Earlier this month, art economist Magnus Resch debuted his latest book: “How to Collect Art,” from Phaidon Press. Too much in the art world is assumed, and too often those …
You may see Bob Timberlake, the 86-year-old artist in Lexington, North Carolina, only as a painter of rural imagery (house in the woods, wicker chair in front of hydrangeas, house …
Cathryn Judice’s twist on Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. Carroll Foster/Courtesy Spartanburg Art Museum Claims of forgery typically land art institutions and museum staff in hot water. Unless you’re the Spartanburg Art …
You can now own a piece of the “Rocket Man.” A treasure trove of items from Sir Elton John’s Atlanta home on Peachtree Road will be sold in a live …
In the southeastern part of Switzerland in the Swiss canton of Graubünden lies the Engadin Valley. People are usually drawn to this picture-perfect area of the country by the unparalleled …
Nicolai Tangen’s Kunstsilo. Mestres Wåge/ BAX/ Mendoza Partida Last year, Dan Hicks writing for The Architecture Review about his book The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural …