The Hermitage has purchased Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Aurora’ for 63.7 million rubles (approximately $1 million USD) and is expecting it to arrive from France prior to the end of August 2018.

Our recommendation this week is Woman in Gold. The 2015 film is based on the  real story of the legal battle fought by a Jewish refugee, Maria Altmann, and her lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, to reclaim Gustav Klimt’s portrait of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

New York City isn’t famous for its agriculture. Yet in 1982, artist Agnes Denes cleaned up what was essentially a dumpsite before planting and harvesting a wheat field there. The land, a stone’s throw away from the site of the Twin Towers, and across the river from the Statue of [...]

Solange’s new performance art piece “Metatronia” is an artistic interpretation of the process and mapping of creation. Аcсording to her statement, it is intended to personify the intuitive force that helps her “create space, and silence the mind to create the work”. A still from “Metatronia” video by Solange and [...]

If you were wondering what you should read this weekend, our suggestion might help you make up your mind. In today’s post we’re going to direct your attention to a new book about the 50-year long creative path of one of the most prominent contemporary American artists. Disappearing Acts catalogues [...]

Art Basel’s 49th edition has attracted an artistic selection that is immense in both volume and calibre of the works on display. We continue our report from the world’s most significant art fair and are happy to share some of its plentiful highlights. Oliver Laric, La Nymphe Salmacis, 2014 Oliver [...]

The much anticipated HALO Project was unveiled at Art Basel on Monday. The installation was created by Semiconductor, an art duo comprised of Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, and curated by Monica Bello of CERN (the European laboratory for particle physics). HALO is a large-scale installation detailing matter formation in [...]

Put together by New York-based curator Gianni Jetzer, the Unlimited Sector is Art Basel’s pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art-show stand. The exposition includes massive sculptures and paintings, video projections, large-scale installations, and performances. Here is our selection of highlights from this year’s Unlimited. Carlos Cruz-Diez, [...]