New Walker Art Center exhibition encourages kids to play in ‘Show & Tell’

You see the ‘Do not touch’ symbol in museums,” the museum’s senior curator said. “We have the ‘Please touch’ symbol.” ...
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For the First Time in Its History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Present Contemporary Sculpture on Its Grand Front Steps

The steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have long served as a public front porch, allowing tourists and locals to bask in the glow of the museum’s Fifth Avenue flagship. This fall, for the first ...

Two Curators Put Gigantic Confederate Monuments in an LA Contemporary Art Museum. How Did They Pull It Off?

Monuments,” a new exhibition at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary, juxtaposes toppled statues and paintings by living artists—and is ...

Rare Klimt painting becomes the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction

What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Gustav Klimt work have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first ...

Night of Modern Art History, Night of Spectacle at Sotheby’s

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio ...