For “Touchstones,” ARTnews asks creative figures from different disciplines—writers, musicians, filmmakers, chefs, and so on—about one artwork that has inspired them.

On Saturday, a rare 17th-century drawing by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini sold for €1.9 million ($2.3 million) at an auction in France, setting a new record for a drawing by the artist. Académie d’homme, […]

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FOR AN UPCOMING ARTS FESTIVAL IN AUSTRALIA, ARTIST SANTIAGO SIERRA is planning to show a British flag soaked in blood donated by First Nations […]

This month, Sotheby’s will auction a work that combines art and fine spirits in a singular piece: one bottle from The Macallan Anecdotes of Ages Collection, to benefit the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives of […]

In 2013, British painter Lynnette Yiadom-Boakye was shortlisted for a Turner Prize, launching the artist to critical acclaim. (She later lost to Laure Prouvost.) A corresponding exhibition staged at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry […]

Alongside a monumental Jean Dubuffet painting, Phillips will auction works by Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Tamara de Lempicka, Mark Tansey, Andy Warhol, John Currin, and Mickalene Thomas in its upcoming 20th century art evening sale […]

Sewing machines are a product of the industrial revolution, and they have never gone out of style since. In fact, with rising interest in upcycling, visible mending, and the slow fashion movement, one might even […]

When war photographer, fashion model and Surrealist muse Lee Miller died at the age of 70 in 1977, her name was known to a select few experts in the art world. Her career was not […]

The Germany city of Düsseldorf revealed this week that it had returned an 18th-century painting to the heirs of a Jewish family who owned it during World War II. Otto and Julie Klein, two Jewish […]

The following article first appeared in the January 1954 issue of ARTnews under the headline “The Ideal Museum.” The public art gallery is a relatively recent creation—scarcely one of them is older than two lifetimes—and […]