Feb 17, 2016 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Ebony Patterson has a lot to say about her homeland, Jamaica of the 1990s. Now a resident of Kentucky where she teaches at the University of Kentucky, she uses art to say it. Her first solo show, Dead Treez, originally designed for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center...
Feb 1, 2016 | Gallery, New York
Eleven artists are taking the ultimate in mundane objects, the humble button, and pushing them into the art realm with diverse uses in a Manhattan gallery this winter. They’ve played across a spectrum of art forms, from sculpture to portraits to wearable art,...
Jan 20, 2016 | Art, Gallery, New York
If you like kissing strangers in public places for art’s sake, this is the exhibit for you. A ring of heart-shaped, mirrored booths will be installed in Times Square for Valentine’s Day. The exhibit, a sculptural piece called Heart of Hearts, will open on February...
Jan 4, 2016 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Guy Wildenstein, 70, is heir to one of the largest art dynasties in recent memory, has been put on trial for accusations of tax fraud and money laundering. Two relatives tipped off investigators about the family’s financial activities, prompting a quick response and a...
Dec 30, 2015 | New York, News & Trending
Actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to return the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar he purchased—as an anonymous buyer—from a luxury natural history auction in 2007. The skull turns out to have been stolen from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Cage bought the skull from the I.M....
Dec 23, 2015 | Art, New York
It’s no secret that much of Western art—the kind that often ends up in places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art—features veritable oceans of white people. And while that’s not great overall, one Manhattan man is very angry at the Met for including four paintings in...
