Ripped Picasso at the Met Is Only One of Many Art Mishaps

Ripped Picasso at the Met Is Only One of Many Art Mishaps

One afternoon not too long ago, a truck arrived on Park Avenue, delivering a batch of Impressionist paintings from a family’s home in …

 

Why The World Doesn’t Need An Annie Warhol Or A Francine Bacon

Why The World Doesn’t Need An Annie Warhol Or A Francine Bacon

LONDON | In May last year, the Centre Pompidou consigned to storage nearly all its works by male artists and ­rehung its permanent …

 

The Familiar Unknown

The Familiar Unknown

Featuring Susan Beiner, Rebekah Bogard, Rebecca Hutchinson & Anne Drew Potter; curated by Ovidio Giberga Expectations, preconceptions, and what we overlook or take for …

 

An Architect Pays Respects to a Dowager

An Architect Pays Respects to a Dowager

BOSTON | More than a few eyebrows will likely be raised on Thursday when the Italian architect Renzo Piano unveils his design for …

 

Architect, or Whatever

Architect, or Whatever

SEATTLE | At the Ballard Farmers’ Market in Seattle on a recent weekend, passers-by could be forgiven for thinking John Morefield was running for …

 

Koons’s $25 Million Dangling Train Derailed By Lacma Shortfall

Koons’s $25 Million Dangling Train Derailed By Lacma Shortfall

LOS ANGELES | The recession has derailed a Jeff Koons sculpture involving a replica of a 1944 Baldwin locomotive with an estimated cost of $25 …

 

Architecture | Zaha Hadid’s Stairway Into The Future

Architecture | Zaha Hadid’s Stairway Into The Future

ROME | I remember looking at Zaha Hadid’s drawings for Rome’s new museum of 21st-century arts a decade ago and wondering how on earth this …

 

Tracey Emin | Not Coming To America?

Tracey Emin | Not Coming To America?

NEW YORK | That the artist Tracey Emin had asked to be interviewed at her hotel swimming pool and showed up in a bathing suit …

 

Death Doesn’t Lie

Death Doesn’t Lie

Napoleon It’s hard to believe that this face once made Europe quake. I’m standing in front of Napoleon – or at least his death mask, …

 

A New Direction For Embassy Architecture?

A New Direction For Embassy Architecture?

Security line outside the American Embassy, London. Credit: Flickr User Gruntzooki. LOS ANGELES The most recent generation of U.S. embassies hasn’t exactly provided a sterling symbol …