Wet Paint guest columnist Harry Tafoya asks art types to make Oscar picks, reports from the Whitney Biennial, and more.

Italy’s Culture Ministry spent €30 million ($35 million) on a Caravaggio portrait of future Pope Urban VIII. The long-hidden painting resurfaced in 2024 and now joins other Caravaggios at Rome’s ...

The show marks the 50th anniversary of Aardman, which also gave us Shaun the Sheep and Morph. Aardman founders Nick Park, Peter Lord, and David Sproxton pose with a few of their characters at the ...

Leeds Castle has worked with a creative technology company to create an A.I. avatar of Eleanor of Castile who married Edward I in 1253.

Cologne Cathedral admission will soon be ticketed, to help cover operations cost. Gerhard Richter, who designed windows there, approves.

Alma Allen has joined Perrotin after splitting with his previous galleries as he prepares to represent the U.S. at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

The artist's monumental 'Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)' will star in Sotheby's marquee New York sales in May. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), 1983. Courtesy of Sotheby ...

A rare textile by Madge Gill sold for $120,650 at Christie’s New York, setting a new auction record for the self-taught British visionary.

British officials are scrambling to find a domestic buyer for an important Howard Hodgkin painting that smashed auction records last autumn.

A new tour at the Palace of Holyroodhouse will let royal fans get to know Queen Elizabeth II like never before.

The famous portrait of President John F Kennedy makes a cameo in the hit television series 'Love Story,' about JFK Jr. and ...

Frank Diaz Escalet was a celebrated leathersmith who worked with the Rolling Stones. A new show spotlights his lesser-known ...