Fine Art

Keith Haring at his Pop Shop in SoHo, 1986

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An exhibition of Keith Haring's art and activism makes clear: 'Art is for everybody'

7:26am May 27, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

In the 1980s, Haring's cartoon-like images were everywhere — his figures of dancers, hearts, babies and dogs remain pop culture motifs. A new exhibition celebrates the artist who died in 1990 at 31.

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A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference.

Supreme Court sides against Andy Warhol Foundation in copyright infringement case

5:18pm May 18, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

In its 7-2 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court said the late artist infringed on a photographer's copyright when he created a series of works based on an image of the pop star Prince.

John R. Gossage, Portrait of Walter Hopps, 1969. Photograph. The Menil Collection, Houston, Promised Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps.

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Meet the eye-opening curator behind hundreds of modern art exhibitions

7:00am May 18, 2023

by Susan Stamberg

Walter Hopps was a visionary and — long before Instagram — an influencer. The Menil Collection in Houston is showing works by 70 artists Hopps spotted, acquired, encouraged or enabled as a curator.

Visitors to "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" at the New Museum are greeted by "In Two Canoe" (foreground) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," two sculptures by the Kenyan-born artist that feature fantastical hybrid creatures set against a landscape that uses gray emergency relief blankets to depict the silhouette of Mount Kenya.

The fantastical art of Wangechi Mutu: from plant people to a 31-foot snake

10:32am May 08, 2023

by Vicky Hallett

Mutu, who lives in Nairobi and Brooklyn, is the star of a show at New York's New Museum. Her art takes on viruses, genocide, junk mail (the "sleeping serpent" is full of it), her own hybrid identity.

An iteration of Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" has previously sold for $120,000, most famously at Art Basel Miami in 2019. A college student who recently viewed the art in a Seoul museum said he ate the banana after skipping breakfast.

The guy who ate a $120,000 banana in an art museum says he was just hungry

12:09pm May 01, 2023

by Bill Chappell

The banana installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan evokes everything from slapstick comedy to global trade. But to a college student, it was a reminder of how very hungry he was.

The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is seen at the Orlando Museum of Art on June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. A former Los Angeles auctioneer has pleaded guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

A California man pleads guilty to selling dozens of fake Basquiat paintings

11:29am April 12, 2023

by Ayana Archie

A former auctioneer has pleaded guilty to selling fake Jean Michel-Basquiat paintings, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

Irish artist Pan Cooke combines his love of graphic storytelling with a passion for education and advocacy to create comic strips highlighting prominent cases of police violence. Here, one of his latest strips tells the story of the beating death of Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. 7 in Memphis, Tenn.

Why a portrait artist from Ireland started making comics about U.S. police brutality

9:05pm April 10, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Ireland-based artist Pan Cooke creates cartoons summarizing the world's daily news in comics, highlighting how prevalent police brutality and hate crimes are across the U.S.

Nam June Paik, a Korean-born artist who blazed a trail in the fine art world by using video as a medium, is the subject of the new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. Above, the artist in 1982.

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New film explores how 'the father of video art' pioneered an art form

7:00am March 25, 2023

by Teresa Xie

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV premiered at Sundance in January. It traces the life and legacy of visionary artist Nam June Paik.

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Two halves of a 17th-century family portrait have been reunited

4:11pm March 17, 2023

Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum.

An artist hopes to buy the shattered Jeff Koons balloon dog

8:01pm February 22, 2023

An artist in Miami is hoping to buy pieces of Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculpture that shattered last week.

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