Possible New Leonardo Drawing, "Profile of the Bella Principessa," Found
TORONTO (AP) - A new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci may have been discovered thanks to centuries-old fingerprint and palm print. Peter Paul Biro, a Mo...
TORONTO (AP) - A new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci may have been discovered thanks to centuries-old fingerprint and palm print. Peter Paul Biro, a Mo...
Posted 10.13.2009 | World
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writer TORONTO - Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci -- in...
Posted 10.12.2009 | World
An artist in India celebrated President Obama's award of the Nobel Peace Prize by building a massive sand sculpture of Obama's face next to a Nobel Pr...
The New York Observer | Katharine Jose | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
There is now a large bronze apple on the median of Park Avenue at 52nd Street, just west of the Seagrams building. The apple is large enough to notice...
Brian Alexander | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
A good magazine is a combination of stories, photos, drawings, opinions, reporting, whimsy, humor. It is an art that is not reproducible nor replaceable by any other medium.
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
Architects, engineers, and students in 130 cities are competing this fall to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from cans of food. Canstr...
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
PARIS — France's culture minister agreed Friday to return five painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted the Egy...
AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
AMSTERDAM — While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum se...
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Are the Republicans and the media finally discovering a critique that hits Obama at the core of his personality?
Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
About 2,000 stolen artifacts were returned to Afghanistan and unveiled at the National Museum in Kabul on Tuesday, the New York Times reports. The art...
AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
CAIRO — Egypt's antiquities czar took his campaign to recover the nation's lost treasures to a new level on Wednesday by cutting ties with one o...
nytimes.com | JIMMY WANG | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
BEIJING It's not the kind of sculpture of Chairman Mao you typically see in China. He's on his knees as a supplicant, confessing; his body language a...
AP | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A marble statue widely attributed to Michelangelo is being loaned to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art by the French governm...
Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
The Edward Burtynsky Oil exhibit is on display now until December 13, 2009 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This exhibit features l...
Rufus Lusk | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York
Rachel Blackwell and Jesse Gelaznik show new video and film work at the 92Y TriBeca this Friday on the presence and absence of ritual in contemporary life and the universality of death.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.
artnewsonline.com | Kate Taylor | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York
Among the reasons that people continue to be fascinated by Jackson Pollock's paintings is their Rorschach quality. Viewers have perceived many things ...
Ashley Van Buren | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York
Seeing Ryman's art is a bit like walking up and down the grid streets of Manhattan, surrounded by buildings in various states of completion -- an architect's work, like an artist's, on display for all to see.
Peter Owen Nelson | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style
As an art collector, I can no longer stomach these exaggerated claims about the contemporary artist Damien Hirst.
Dan Persons | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Almereyda is no stranger to toying with film form. His latest documentary, the deceptively free-form Paradise, is an affecting -- dare I say, paradisiacal -- experience.
Richard Reiss | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.
Oliver Noble | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
Reinventing Ritual is a bold conversation about the Jewish future. Who would have thought it would have happened on the Upper East Side?
Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Lauren DiGiulio | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
Throughout this month, Governors Island plays host to the Dutch government-sponsored New Island Festival, a two-week art extravaganza featuring provocative theater, installation, and music events.
AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | World