12/02/2019. Marion McClinton, a noted director who was a favorite of the playwright August Wilson and took two of his plays to Broadway, earning a 2001 Tony Award nomination for best direction for the first, “King Hedley II,” died Thursday in St. Paul, Minnesota...

12/02/2019. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has opened a two-part exhibition on the life and legacy of Marcel Duchamp, commencing with “Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection,” on...

12/02/2019. You’ll find them up in the balcony, or in standing room, silently mouthing the libretto or humming along with the score. These are the superfans: the compulsive lovers of opera or ballet or theater who see every performance; who travel from city...

12/02/2019. An export bar has been issued for Johann Liss’s ‘The Temptation of Mary Magdalene’ in a bid to provide the opportunity for a UK gallery to acquire it. Johann Liss (c. 1595-1631) was one of the leading painters in the Baroque style and a major for...

12/02/2019. Public Art Fund announced the appointment of Ai Weiwei, Ellen Celli, Andrea Krantz, and Ruthard C. Murphy to its Board of Directors. They join an international group of philanthropists and ar...

12/02/2019. From a raving laser projection, to a speaking tree with a Geordie accent, to a soaring sledge sculpture, the King’s Cross Christmas tree is always a surprise with an air of the unexpected, and this year is no exception. Providing people who vis...

12/02/2019. At first something disappears. The exhibition starts in the staircase to the Kabinett with a colour application that will be overlooked. The dark grey mountings of the handrails – now there are two for security purposes – disappear in the colour of t...

12/02/2019. At the turn of the 20th century, the Palace of Versailles was at a crucial time in its history. One hundred years after the French Revolution and at the dawn of the Belle Epoque, a remarka...

12/02/2019. Ortuzar Projects is presenting NEWS!, Suzanne Jackson's first solo exhibition in New York. In a career spanning more than five decades, Jackson has worked experimentally across genres incl...

12/02/2019. Iconic American landscapes, scenes of daily life from interwar Europe, and experimental, abstract impressions of both the natural and manmade worlds are among the subjects found in the National ...

12/02/2019. Frederick Douglass passed through this elegant Southern city only once, for the briefest of visits — a half-hour whistle-stop on his rail journey to a speaking engagement in Jacksonville, Florida. It was April 1889, just the second foray into the ...

12/02/2019. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami continues to strengthen and expand its exhibitions, collections, and educational programming in 2019, marking a number of major milestones since the museum’s...

12/02/2019. Choreographer Donald Byrd stood before a video of his younger self, observing a dance he created 33 years ago. In a button-down T-shirt, loose khaki pants and bare feet, the man on-screen floated through swift turns and bobbing leaps with the continu...

12/02/2019. Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting the exhibition Drawings with works by Carroll Dunham and Michael Williams, curated by Cornelius Tittel, at Bleibtreustraße 45. 30 years apart and both hailed...

12/02/2019. Marcin Maciejowski's first London exhibition with the gallery illuminates the Polish artist's continued exploration of his immediate surrounds, including scenes from the art world, fragments from art history and the often-overlooked moments that perm...