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An audience at Expo Chicago’s /Dialogues program in 2017. COURTESY EXPO CHICAGO The Expo Chicago art fair is expanding its programming for 2018, with an off-site edition of its “/Dialogues”…
Norman Rockwell, Shuffleton’s Barbershop, 1950. In February, when the embattled Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, announced it had reached an agreement with the state’s attorney general to sell as many…
Not a dinner set, but rather an English wicker picnic hamper from the early 20th century, being sold at Christie’s from the Rockefeller Collection. Its estimate: $5,000 to $10,000. CHRISTIE’S…
Judith Linhares, Saturday Morning, 2017, oil on linen. © JUDITH LINHARES/COURTESY P.P.O.W. New York-based artist Judith Linhares will join P.P.O.W.’s roster, which includes Martha Wilson, Betty Tompkins, Carolee Schneemann, Ramrio…
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Quiet Storm,” 2018, at Company Gallery, New York. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND COMPANY GALLERY, NEW YORK Pictures at an…
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait, 1977. COURTESY CHRISTIE’S With the big-ticket spring sales of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art in New York just about a month away, the auction houses…
Max Hollein. DREW ALTIZER PHOTOGRAPHY After a year-long search, Max Hollein has been named the new director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making him the tenth person to head…
From Cathy Guisewite’s book Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Reflections and Rebellions From the Grown-Up Years. COURTESY G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS New Met Director The Metropolitan Museum of Art in…
Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer, 1668, oil on canvas, 19⅝” x 17¾”. National Gallery of Art. MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, PARIS, DÉPARTEMENT DES PEINTURES, ACQUIRED BY “DATION” IN 1982 As Secretary of…
“This is what sculpture looks like” installation at Postmasters Gallery in 2014. COURTESY POSTMASTERS GALLERY Postmasters Gallery in New York is now accepting donations via Patreon, an online platform used…