Restoration as Spectacle: Why Museums Are Putting Conservation on Display
There is a moment, in almost every museum visit, when a velvet rope or a closed door reminds you that something important is happening just
There is a moment, in almost every museum visit, when a velvet rope or a closed door reminds you that something important is happening just
When a Rothko Becomes More Than a Painting This spring, the market once again reminded the art world that Mark Rothko remains one of the
A Gesture That Altered the Course of Sculpture When Alexander Calder casually remarked that it “would be fun” to set abstract art in motion, he
From March 26 through April 4, audiences in Salt Lake City in the U.S. are invited into a poetic encounter between sound, light, and ecological
International Women’s Day serves as a powerful reminder for the art world to look again — and look more carefully — at the women who
In the last installment of ARTDEX’s Art and Money series, Why Art Valuation Is Never Just About Money – Art and Money Series Part 3,
Series Recap: From Sticker Shock to Structural Reality In Part 1, Why Is Art So Expensive?, we examined the initial reaction many people have when
There are moments in the life of museums when an exhibition does more than bring together a celebrated body of work; it shifts an axis.
In a dazzling Paris evening sale in October 2025, Yves Klein’s monumental California (IKB 71) (1961), a fourteen-foot expanse of pure ultramarine, sold for €18.4
The overlooked “blur” that linked Dada’s chaos with Surrealism’s dreamworld “Man Ray,” the poet André Breton once said, “is the quintessential modern artist — free,
Why Cézanne Still Matters Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is not just a painter of apples and mountains — he is the hinge between centuries of tradition
What Makes Art “Great”? A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting sells for $120 million. Meanwhile, an equally striking canvas by a gifted but unknown artist collects dust