A Gustav Klimt portrait of a young Viennese woman set a record auction price for the artist Tuesday when it fetched $236.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York.

Two of the most influential art patrons in New York, Leonard Lauder and Agnes Gund, have died this year, and the New York ...

A gold toilet sculpture created a lot of excitement before the big art auction in New York, but its price underwhelmed compared to an ethereal Klimt portrait.

This month, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, will open four shows exploring the depth and breadth of the Arab world’s contemporary works. By David Belcher Tucked away on a side street, ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has received a $75 million donation for a new building to showcase modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The funds — which amount to the single largest naming gift ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

A biennial art exhibition and competition is examining Bermuda’s beauty in an ever-changing modern world. The Charman Prize exhibition went on display at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art last ...

The 1958 blaze turned the painting into a "burned marshmallow." A artwork damaged by fire at the Museum of Modern Art, 1958. Photo: Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. The reason the fire ...

An exhibition at LACMA examines the legacy of Dutch colonization through a fictive 17th-century collector’s room of wonders Anne Wallentine - History Correspondent “The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...