The New York Times

Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)

The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park. Credit...Andy Haslam for ...
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The Saint Louis Art Museum marks hip hop’s 50th anniversary with “The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century”

The most agreed-upon date for the birth of hop-hop is August 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc hosted a back-to-school block party in the Bronx, and partiers heard the beginnings of what would become ...
Artnet

Tate Modern Is Bringing Back Louise Bourgeois’s Giant Spider

In May 2000, the late monarch Queen Elizabeth inaugurated Tate Modern in London. It occupied a flashy new Herzog and de Meuron-designed home in the disused Bankside Power Station, which sits on the ...
Hartford Courant

Yale University Art Gallery brings 18th century artist George Romney into the 21st century

The Yale University Art Gallery makes a clever move in their “Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England” exhibit by providing a brilliant contrast with modern American painting in the same style ...
Artnet

Christie’s London Nets $250 Million Across 20th/21st Century and Art of the Surreal Sales

The London market looked a little stronger after Christie’s followed Sotheby’s £100 million ($127 million) opener with its 20th/21st Century and Art of the Surreal auctions. The back-to-back sales of ...