Art and Culture

Artsy -With some 200 works to her name, Frida Kahlo was not a prolific painter. But she was certainly a prolific lover: Her list of romances stretched across decades, continents, and sexes. She was said to have...

Hyperallergic  -Satellite images, cellphone images, and video footage spliced together by members of ISIS — these are the familiar visuals we see that emerge out of a war-torn Palmyra today. They record how muc...

BBC - It is one of the iconic photographs of the 20th Century, an image that is synonymous with love and with Paris, the city of romance. Its name is Le Baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville (The Kiss by the Hôtel de Vill...

Hyperallergic - In the 1896 “Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir,” a heavily clothed woman enters a room and, button by button, fastener by fastener, drops her modest petticoats and corset until she’s wearing just a ...

Hyperallergic - PARIS — L’Esprit du Bauhaus (“The Bauhaus Spirit”) is a serenely spirited show that reintroduces us to the many and enduring innovations of Walter Gropius’s German art school. As many of the thi...

cnet - An exciting archaeology discovery announced this week hinges not only on what scientists found, but on what was missing. - read more...

The Art Newspaper - A controversial portrait by Salvador Dalí of his sister Ana María, given to her before the pair’s relationship deteriorated over details published in his autobiography, is on the market for ...

DW - Film screenings make up the core of the Berlinale, of course. Yet one look at the program of the international film festival indicates that there's even more to it than the movies: discussions and workshop...

The Art Newspaper - Glafira Rosales, the Long Island art dealer who played a key role in the $80m forgery scandal that brought down the Knoedler gallery, was sentenced on Tuesday, 31 January by a federal judge ...

The Art Newspaper - The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid has reached an impasse: the loan agreement of the collection of the 73-year-old baroness Carmen Cervera, the widow of the industrial tycoon Hans Heinr...