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What do we mean when we call an artwork a MASTERPIECE? Who decides which art becomes one? And what artists make them?

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Visitors viewing Sun Yitian's painting at Esther Schipper, Frieze Seoul 2024

What’s Online Winter 2025: Art & Object Magazine

Faux Mogao caves assembled for the 2016 show at the Getty Center.

Visiting Dunhuang: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Library Cave

Installation view, ‘Jennifer Rochlin. Paintings on Clay,’ Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street, 2 May 2024 – 12 July 2024. © Jennifer Rochlin

What’s Online Fall 2024: Art & Object Magazine

Sungsic MOON 문성식, Summer Night 여름밤, 2022.

Denver Art Museum Showcases the Politics of Korean Ceramics

Matthew Wong, The Realm of Appearances, 2018.

The Parallel Life and Art of Matthew Wong and Vincent Van Gogh

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Modern Art

View of Context Art Miami Fair

Art Miami Announces 2024 Exhibitors List for 34th Edition, Dec. 3-8

Guy Lyman Fine Art: An Artist and Dealer in The Big Easy

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies to Debut At Christie’s Hong Kong

Latin American Art

Carolina Bácares Jara (Bogotá, b. 1987), Zona de derrumbes, Sound and video installation, Artecamera section, curated by Ximena Gama, curator of the National Library of Colombia

ARTBO Celebrates 20 Years of Colombian Art

Why the LACMA’s “Archive of the World” Catalogue Matters

Neo-Concretism: the short-lived but influential art movement

Drawing

An image of The Clark with the Center, original building, and Manton Research Center

The Clark Art Institute Makes Plans to Expand After Generous Donation

EFA’s Open Studios Explore Collage, Color, and Curation

Santa Claus Through History: Tracing the Evolution of a Beloved Icon

Sculpture

Installation view, Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art. Brooklyn Museum, opens October 4, 2024.

Reframing Complicated Narratives for a Contemporary Audience at Brooklyn Museum

Top 10 Must-See Pieces at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

The 10 Best Booths at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2024

Antiques

Michela Cattai, Naturalia Hydrangea

Maison Gerard Celebrates 50 Years With Historic Art Deco Pieces on View

Remembering Sanford Smith: Art Lover, Collector, and Businessman

7 Art Auctions in May & June 2024 You Won't Want to Miss

LGBTQ Artists

8 - self-portrait in the afternoon light, january 2019, puberty

Preview Laurence Philomene’s Masterful Monograph: "Puberty"

Eisenman’s Paintings Back in NYC Art Scene at Hauser & Wirth

6 Art World Events for Pride 2022

Fair

Installation image, 2024.

When Feminism Imitates Art: Ecofeminism at PST

10 Highlights from Art Basel Paris 2024

Miu Miu's Feminist Fashion Statement at Art Basel Paris

Indigenous Art

Archie Moore, Australia Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2024, image by Andrea Rossetti.

An Ode To The Woven Arts At 2024 Venice Biennale Golden Lion Awards

History Painting: An Art Genre or the Manipulation of Truth?

9 Indigenous Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram

Auction

Elton John's 1992 Bentley Continental

Christie’s Announces Acquisition of Major Vehicle Auction House

Designer Vivienne Westwood’s Personal Wardrobe Goes To Auction

Julianne Moore To Star In Television Adaptation Of The Lost Leonardo

Museum

Yan Wang Preston, Egongyan Park, Chongqing, China, 2017, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund

An Intersection of Art & Science at PST Art

Ethiopia at the Crossroads: An Exhibit of Resilience

10 Must-See Pieces at Yale University Art Gallery

Women Artists

Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, 1620

A Missing Painting By Artemisia Gentileschi Now On View In Texas

A Book in Celebration of Women in the Arts: "Great (Women) Sculptors"

11 Photographs That Highlight the Beauty of Summer

Photography

Sybil and David Yurman in the atelier at the Vestry Street headquarters, New

A Book Review of “Sybil and David Yurman: Artists and Jewelers”

Mazlish Gallery Brooklyn: Making Space for the Self-Made Artist

10 Highlights from Art Basel 2024

Asian Art

Visitors viewing Sun Yitian's painting at Esther Schipper, Frieze Seoul 2024

From Art Fairs to Biennales, Contemporary Art Is Blossoming in South Korea

The Golden Ratio Revealed in 7 Masterpieces

'Beyond Bollywood' Brings Together 2000 Years of Dance in Art

Contemporary Art

Sparks Gallery Front

Discovering San Diego Creatives at Sparks Gallery

Olafur Eliasson Encourages Visitors To “OPEN” Up Through His Light Installations

Cultural Engagement Through Art at Susan Eley Fine Art

Renaissance

French newspaper Excelsior proclaims,"The Mona Lisa has returned," January 1, 1914.

7 Shocking Incidents of Mona Lisa Vandalism & Theft

Trial Begins in Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev's Case Against Sotheby's

What You Don't Know About the World’s Oldest Photograph

Design

Barn quilt on fence at Hilltop Farm Store & Creamery. Suffield, CT, 2024.

The History of the Barn Quilt: A Symbol of the American Midwest

10 Iconic Art-Inspired Halloween Costumes

The Smiley Face's History: Exploring a Joyful Symbol

Painting

A room of the exhibition, Edvard Munch: Inner Fire.

Edvard Munch's Colorful Journey Through Death, Love, and Sex

Mysterious Picasso Found In Italian Cellar

An Interview with Kenny Schachter on Collecting, Curating, and Creating

Gallery

Joan Miro "Sculptures II" original lithograph, 1974

Affordable Art 101: Making Art Easier to Collect

Two Major Cities Curate Community and Art at Their Joint Exhibition

A Visual Interpretation of the Black Experience at Edges of Ailey

Black Artists

Howard University, Washington D.C. - Founder's Library

7 Notable Artworks and Artists Associated with Howard University

Simone Leigh's Monuments on Subjectivity

Mickalene Thomas is “All About Love” in Her New Exhibition

Ancient Art

Roman sculptural fragments of Mithras Slaying the Bull, recovered by the Carabinieri art theft squad in Fiumicino, 2014. License

The U.S. Returns $80 Million Worth of Stolen Artifacts to Italy

Archaeologists Uncover Mysterious Ancient Roman Dodecahedron

A Brief Look at Sun Symbolism Through Art History