A performance art review weighs time, space, body, presence and audience relation for a work that exists only while it runs, and the published record often outlasts the art.
Artist house museums run from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, at about 25,000 visitors a month, to Monet's Giverny at 530,000 a year, while most house museums draw under 5,000.
MoMA's $75 Annual Pass beats the museum's $30 adult ticket by the third visit, while the Met says membership pays for itself in two.
A nonprofit platform built during wartime shows how curators can move an entire national art scene online when galleries, fairs and travel fail.
The oldest continuous arts community in America built a gallery scene out of fishing money, dune shacks and a three-mile street.
The Outer Cape town ranks second only to Provincetown in gallery density, and the reasons go back further than the summer season.
Boston's galleries cluster within a few walkable neighborhoods, and an afternoon of visits costs nothing but shoe leather.
Cheap square footage, commuter-rail access, and empty industrial buildings have turned Lynn into the region's working alternative to Boston's gallery scene.
A members' studio with Rockwell in its past, 18 active members in its present, and a key that opens the door at any hour.
House museums, college collections and regional institutions that reward leaving the city behind.
Three documented institutions — the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Sandwich Glass Museum and the Cahoon Museum of American Art — cover a rainy day on Cape Cod.
The crowds come for the haunted history. The collections worth the trip are older, quieter, and easier to see if you plan around the season.
One line in a scholarly volume can fix how a whole career is read, taught and priced.
Every gallery announcement is a sales document wearing a press badge. Here is what the plain-English version usually says.
Sales, teaching, commissions, licensing and grants form a patchwork. Almost nobody survives on one of them alone.
A slow-looking framework for visitors who feel overwhelmed, or underwhelmed, by the standard gallery crawl.
Steven C. Barber is a Santa Monica filmmaker who became America's most prolific private builder of national monuments, a designation his own release states plainly: "America's Monument Maker."
Plein air painting is the act of painting outdoors in front of the subject, a French-born method that the Barbizon School turned into a movement and the Impressionists made famous.
A seasonal island community built a durable art institution by running it the way a guild would: by its own artists, for its own artists.
A youth arts organization built on a simple wager—pay young artists real wages for real work—and why the model keeps spreading.
The hierarchy between useful objects and fine art was built by institutions, and it bends every time clay or thread gets museum walls.
The retrospective is the highest-stakes show a museum can mount. Here is what separates a revelatory survey from a filler wall.
Museum open access programs have released millions of images for unrestricted reuse — all of them public domain. That single boundary decides which exhibitions reviews can actually illustrate.
Art Basel has unveiled the exhibitor list for the second edition of Art Basel Qatar: 82 galleries presenting 80 single-artist shows across Msheireb Downtown D
New spotlighting, logo and button-color tools arrive with iOS 27 — useful, modest, and gated at every turn.
The Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2024 put 2023 global sales at $65 billion, down 4 percent — but the number the trade actually argued about was the 30 percent drop at the top of the market.
