He said, "Do you know the artist ? He's actually deceased. He was young." As soon as I saw the name on the wall, Ján Mančuška , I had this sudden and sad recollection. I had neglected to tell Mančuška that his work really made an impression on me several years back when we were in a show together.

You might think that it was fine for art sometimes to "question" things, but that most of the "questions" that were being raised were questions that had been raised in art quite a lot before.

From a curator with a couture collection to a duo with a knack for coordinated suits, these 20 new additions to our pantheon of the art world's best-d...

By Simon Doonan Freud said the goals of the artist are fame, money, and beautiful lovers. Based on my artist acquaintances, I would say this holds ...

Like conservatives who write pleasant histories that ignore segregation and child labor, Deitch-bashers speak of the good old days at MOCA that were more insider and downright icky than most anything old Mitt Romney could be hiding.

Summer in the art world is a relaxed affair -- galleries close early, publications slow down, and tourist-filled museums tend to scare away the profes...

The art world discriminates based on age. I would advise every artist reading this to immediately remove your birth year from your website, from your ...

In looking through the submissions, though, I saw great pictures that did not conform to the art magazine flavor of the month but were epic combinations of talent and imagination nonetheless.

The analogy occurred to me: the Art World is to Art as Wall Street is to Democracy; the former no longer a vital contributor to the latter.

Tonight begins Art Basel Miami Beach, a 3 day bacchanal filled with parties you can't get into, art you can't afford and celebs you can't drool on. Th...

London's Frieze Art Fair, in its 8th year, is one brash trumpet in a symphony (or is it a cacophony?) of international cities that are clearly gaining...

The past few weeks, the stock market has been reeling as concerns about the U.S. and global economy resurface. In an attempt to discover what this mea...

Lots of artists are posting their work on Google+. We got in touch with a few of them to ask about their experience so far. The response? They love it...

-- "Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg: In 1997, a gang of c...

Been out in the rain and cold (60 degrees at noon in LA is like 30 below anywhere else) looking at lots (but admittedly, not all, and nobody can make ...

Each week Artweek.LA provides a comprehensive calendar of art events from the more than 475 art venues throughout Los Angeles.

Snowbound January days, it seems, were good for painting, reading, and blogging, at least if the painting blogosphere is an indicator.

While the economics of the Los Angeles art scene are still a long way off from the peak in 2006, the activity at exhibitions and in studios is as frenzied as ever.

Having covered the physical world with an art empire encompassing 10 galleries around the globe (including a new space in Geneva), Larry Gagosian has taken the next logical step -- he's gone virtual.

At a ceremony at the Guggenheim last night, German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann was named the winner of the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, a $100,000 biannual aw...

Francois Ghebaly continues his ascent into top dealerdom. He has moved his Francois Ghebaly Gallery to Culver City, landing in a funky, misshapen muffler repair shop.

This week, HuffPost's Arts page watched as Flight of the Conchords and The Simpsons came together for some deserved art-world-mockery, our bloggers se...