In Calida Rawles’ world, Black bodies rise through sunlight and waves. The Los Angeles–based artist has earned widespread recognition for her exacting, ethereal depictions of water. Fittingly, Rawles’s work appeared on the cover of Ta-Nehisi […]

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE EGYPTIAN PHARAOH SEQENENRE TAO II was killed in an execution ceremony, according to a new study that used CT scans to examine […]

The second portion of Sotheby’s two-part sale of works from the collection of public art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, which in total comprised 373 lots, finished online on Thursday. The latter half of the sale […]

Like all autobiographies, artist memoirs require two ingredients: a compelling life story and the ability to put it to paper. For lots of people, though, it seems counterintuitive that a visual artist would pick up […]

On the centennial of the artist’s birth, Joseph Beuys’s home and studio in Düsseldorf has landed on the market. The German real estate firm Engel & Völkers, which is overseeing the sale, has not disclosed […]

UPDATED (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 6, 2020 8:57 PM) If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. The art of bookbinding is a […]

In the mid-2000s, Kevin Francis Gray began sculpting cloaked or hooded figures in marble and bronze, their faces hidden by draped cloth. More recent works have featured faces distorted by pockmarks, the marble resembling a […]

A public mural recently created by Banksy in Nottingham, England, has been sold to Brandler Galleries in the town of Brentwood. According to a report by the Guardian, the gallery purchased the work, which depicts […]

After nearly a century on view and a legal battle spanning more than a decade, a Constantin Brancusi sculpture that had been one of the top attractions in Paris’s Montparnasse Cemetery can be taken away […]