Art and Culture

The New York Times - Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1917, I.M. Pei had a career in architecturethat spanned over 60 years. Mr. Pei, who moved to the United States to attend college and died Thursday at the age of...

BBC -  Artists as diverse as JMW Turner and Edward Hopper have been inspired to capture the spirit and beauty of the iconic cathedral. Kelly Grovier picks some of the finest. News this week of the devastatin...

The Art Newspaper - Following the catastrophic collapse on 25 January of a mining dam Córrego do Feijão in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, the neighbouring arts centre Inhotim reopened on 9 February with a minute’s s...

The Art Newspaper - Sigmund Freud, perhaps predictably, opined that the urge to collect stems back to an unresolved emotional conflict triggered by potty training. Collectors, he declared, are forever making up...

The New York Times - A few years ago, a plaza in Paris was named after the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Brooklyn-born painter who became a global sensation in the early 1980s and died at 27 of a heroin over...