PARIS — A game of brinkmanship began when the Musée d’Orsay here invited Julian Schnabel to choose paintings from its 19th-century collection to exhibit alongside his own works of art. “At a certain ...

Fri, March 12, 2021 at 3:45 AM UTC During Conceptual art’s height in the early 1970s, critics proclaimed that painting was dead. It wasn’t the first time that painting’s obituary had been prematurely ...

The first was completed in 1939, the second in 1942. A superficial comparison shows that he added a couple of horizontal black lines and four small rectangles, one blue and three red. Both versions ...

Take a bright kid with a stupid name (Inigo Philbrick) and parents with a background in the arts and introduce him to the richest, most gullible art collectors in the world and you have all the main ...

I am not an expert on art but I am an expert on gullibility, and art appreciation (and certainly art economics) can in part be understood as an example of mass gullibility at work. Take the case of an ...

Art dealer Bernard Jacobson has been working at the center of the art world for more than 50 years and, over those decades, has developed strong opinions about what it takes to be a great artist.

André Gide called him “the first of our great French painters and the most French of our great painters,” but France herself has been strangely ambivalent about the 17th century master, Nicolas ...

On a piece of rocky ground at the base of a steep bank along the mist-shrouded Little River, oil painter Olena Babak sets up her easel. It’s late in the day to be starting a new piece - less than ...