Art

The avant-garde artist, known worldwide for works covered in polka dots and her signature pumpkin motif, died Aug. 14. Kusama turned the hallucinations she had experienced since childhood into a source of artistic inspiration, voluntarily living for decades in a psychiatric hospital in Japan, leaving each morning to work at her studio. 

Beit Avi Chai has signed a groundbreaking multiyear agreement with Berlin’s Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. As part of the partnership, a new season of the series “Letting Objects Speak” will be produced, making historic artifacts accessible to international audiences.

The 61st Biennale was rocked by mass resignations, artist walkouts, striking pavilions, and clashes outside the Israeli pavilion – with the Israeli representative filing a legal complaint alleging antisemitism.

The single act of self-mutilation that has defined Vincent van Gogh in the popular imagination for more than a century. But what if the story we think we know is incomplete?

French auction house reveals wartime masterpiece expected to fetch millions at October sale.

Security staff at a French museum quickly restored Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" artwork after a visitor bites into the banana component of the multi-million dollar conceptual piece, disappointing the artist who wished the person had consumed the entire installation including tape and peel.

The foundation's management discovered Bridle's signature on the anti-Israel letter and subsequently unanimously decided to cancel the award, citing "awareness of German national history and the responsibility that comes with it."

A report revealed potential Holocaust-era theft in the prestigious Bührle Collection, one of Switzerland's most esteemed art collections.

The Kunsthaus Zurich art museum has announced the removal of five paintings, due to potential links between these artworks and Nazi-era looting during World War II.