UPDATE: Gordon Ferguson has now been reinstated to his position at Alberta College of Art + Design, following the petition described below. Read more on the recent update here.

The Canadian art world is putting the Alberta College of Art + Design on trial this week, after...

You may remember seeing an article on Artinfo Australia in December 2012 about a giant sculptural hot-air balloon by world-renowned Australian artist Patrica Piccinini that had been commissioned to celebrate the 100th birthday of Australia's capital city, Canberra. Well, the balloon dubbed the "Skywhale" has been revealed in all its...

While Frieze New York has more exhibitors this year than last -- around 190 to last year's 180 -- there's still not enough room for everyone, and competition for entry was fierce. The second edition of the fair sees a reshuffling of galleries, with 60 joining for the first time,...

PARIS -- The Palais Garnier was packed last week for the world premiere of a new production of the ballet "Boléro" co-created by artist Marina Abramovic. As the curtain was about to be drawn, ARTINFO France noticed Kanye West seated nearby in the famous plush red seats, as well as...

Just days before it was due to go on view at Queen Elizabeth II's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, puzzle master Dave Evans's chef d'oeuvre, a 40,000-piece jigsaw puzzle celebrating the queen's Diamond Jubilee crashed to his studio's floor (see video below), instantly undoing more than 200 hours of work.

"Just spent 20 hours in 2 Brooklyn jails for this," Kenny Scharf wrote on Facebook when posting the above image of one of his signature graffiti pieces on Saturday. The street artist-turned-gallery star was arrested on Friday night, Art Sucks reports, for spray-painting the small snake graffiti on private property...

To marks its sesquicentennial, the French manufacturer of high-end luxury porcelain flatware Bernardaud commissioned a group of contemporary artists including Jeff Koons, Sophie Calle, JR and Prune Nourry, Marlène Mocquet, Michael Lin, Marco Brambilla, film auteur-turned-artist David Lynch, and others to create limited edition plates.

Sunset over the Santiago Calatrava-designed Ysios winery in northern Spain is a sight to behold; the angular beams of aluminum laid across the undulating roof reflect the orange dusk in spectacular ways. Push that romanticism aside, however, and the sad truth remains: all that beauty has done little to keep...

The last decade has been a veritable roller-coaster ride for the Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, whose ever-popular name and work have landed him on countless oddball spin-off products and projects, from the ubiquitous Dan Brown novel to the new Starz action series "Da Vinci's Demons." Now, the...

A new documentary on Herb and Dorothy Vogel, the legendary New York collectors who managed to accrue a world-class trove of minimalist art on a government employee's salary, premiered last week at the Whitney Museum, a month after an excerpted version of the film opened the REEL Artists Film Festival...

When The Stranger's Jen Graves printed a piece outlining Seattle-based artist Charles Krafft's ideas about white nationalism, exposing that the swastika and Third Reich symbolism in his work isn't a criticism or satire of the associated ideas, Krafft was out of the country, traveling in India. He returned last week...

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, LACMA officially submitted a bid at the end of February offering merge with the troubled L.A. MOCA and help with fundraising. The merger...

Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough have misappropriated John Divola's name and work -- or so claims the Los Angeles-based artist.

Reached for comment, Divola said, "[Proenza Schouler is] using my images, and my name, to directly promote their products" -- without his authorization. Indeed, there are similarities between...

Yesterday morning Indianapolis Museum of Art director Charles Venable laid off 21 people, 11 percent of the museum's staff. The cuts, which seem to have been made because the IMA is unwilling to spend a reasonable level of endowment funds in order to continue to fulfill its mission at a...

Few museum exhibitions are ever visited by 4,000 people in one day, let alone a gallery show, and yet that has been a recurring attendance figure on Saturdays at Gagosian's 24th Street megaplex since its mini-retrospective devoted to Jean-Michel Basquiat opened on February 7 -- an...

Beginning last month, for no readily apparent reason, the Tumblr Swoosh Art has been posting images juxtaposing famous artworks -- with a penchant for French painting, from Jacques-Louis David (see Napoleon portrait above) to Edouard Manet -- with the logo and iconic "Just Do It" catchphrase of athletic...

To many outsiders, the South African art world may seem to have produced no more than a few major talents -- most notably William Kentridge. Their work further suffers by being narrowly perceived as inextricably associated with apartheid, still the lodestone of South African identity. This oversimplification persists largely because...

For his latest subversive intervention, the self-described "contemporary artist and pirate" Paolo Cirio wants to give you the offshore tax benefits enjoyed by major multi-national coporations. To that end he hacked the corporate registry website of the government of the Cayman Islands, a popular tax haven south of Cuba that...

Just over a year after New York-based practice Diller Scofidio & Renfro (DS+R) was selected to transform the center of Aberdeen, Scotland, the city council has pronounced the scheme for the Aberdeen City Garden Project all but dead. Conservatives who had originally backed the Labour-opposed plan when the council came...

While the history of art movements includes many that were either short-lived or limited to few active participants -- "Vorticism," the largely forgotten Cubist-based modernism movement that resurfaced at Tate Britain in 2011 is one that comes to mind -- from time to time, one will come to public attention...