Napoleon fans outraged by horse memorial
A reproduction of the skeleton of Napoleon’s favourite horse Marengo has been hung over the French emperor’s tomb in Paris…
Iraq’s heritage battered by desert sun, rain and state apathy
One of the world’s oldest churches is crumbling deep in Iraq’s desert, another victim of years of conflict, government negligence…
These Neanderthals weren’t cannibals, so who ate them? Stone Age hyenas.
When a Neanderthal skull was discovered in a cave on the property of a beachfront hotel south of Rome in…
On Governors Island, art interventions are everywhere
If you want respite from the moneyed, big-name glamour of some of your larger art fairs, you can, in one…
Matthew Marks opens an exhibition of drawings by Willem de Kooning
Matthew Marks opened Willem de Kooning Drawings, the new exhibition in his gallery at 526 West 22nd Street. The exhibition…
Beyond abstract expressionism: MoMA rethinks the art of the 1950s
As exhibitions go, “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury” at the Museum of Modern Art is a relatively modest undertaking. After…
Napoleon’s bath meets its Waterloo
One of the many things Napoleon Bonaparte was famous for was taking long soaks in the bath, during which he…
Kasmin exhibits Robert Polidori’s photographs of the ancient frescoes found among the ruins of Pompeii
A new exhibition by Robert Polidori presents the artist’s large-scale color photographs of the ancient frescoes found among the ruins…
Frieze New York, first live art fair in a year, kicks off at the Shed
The colossal white tent on Randalls Island — the one that occasionally threatened to uplift and blow away — is…
Art by African American artist Bill Traylor donated to VMFA
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today the gift of nine captivating works on paper created with paint, graphite and…