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To celebrate the semiquincentennial this July 4, read a selection of essays from the Journal’s ‘Masterpiece’ column highlighting the artistry of monuments, paintings, books and more related to our ...

The New York Public Library has filled its top floor with a bold account of contemporary artists coming to terms with the state of our nation. Robert Longo’s “Untitled (Falling Flag),” sits behind a ...

The quarterly Museum Artist list for June 2026 includes Jeffrey Gibson, Sky Hopinka, Kara Walker, and Betye Saar.

With women now controlling more than one-third of global wealth, they are spending more on art than men do, data shows, and influencing what museums acquire. With women now controlling more than ...

On Monday evening, the British Museum hosted a cocktail hour in a board member’s apartment on the Upper East Side. After Nicholas Cullinan—the director of the British Museum, who, in his first two ...

“Fashion is more art than art is,” according to Andy Warhol, who, 39 years after his death, may have the last word. Is fashion art? Is art fashion? The answer to those perennial, pesky questions ...

The Financial Times is a great paper, and it’s pink, so I often carry it around to look smart. Last week, it featured an article on wine—about how the world is producing too much of it, prices are ...

This time it’s personal . . . . It’s next to impossible to walk through “Costume Art,” the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibition, as an impassive observer. Active looking is more than encouraged, it’s ...

ArtTactic’s latest report shows renewed art market confidence, deepening selectivity and a shift toward the Gulf and Asia amid global economic and political change. Courtesy of Art Basel The report ...

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