This summer, on the evening of July 26, during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, Axelle Saint-Cirel, a 29-year-old mezzo-soprano draped in the colors of the French flag, climbed a ladder all the way up to the glass roof of the Grand Palais
This year Art Basel Paris will unveil Premisedc188, a new section of exhibitions that seeks to be more inclusive in the type of art that is typically showcased at art fairs. “We all understand the art canon as being something very rigid and whose de
Ali Cherri, a Beirut-born visual artist living in Paris, is obsessed with death as much as mud. To Cherri, mud’s fecund mix of water and earth represents the struggle between opposing forces: decay and rebirth, violence and resistancefb777, myth and
We often scrutinize an artist’s workepoch game, searching for autobiographical clues. But in Titus Kaphar’s recent paintings, and in his new film, “Exhibiting Forgiveness,” such close reading is unnecessary. His life experience is laid bare, in all
Which truths are self-evident? Parallel realities are the specialty of Stan Douglas, the Vancouver photographer who since the 1980s has staged increasingly disorienting scenes of historical re-enactment that often draw on archival research to push t
The magnificent glow-in-the-dark exhibition called “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a visual event of pure 24-karat beauty and a multileveled scholarly coup. On both counts, we’ll be lucky if the season b
Americans flocked to the city in droves. A warm fall sun shone through the vast glass roof. The dealers brought their very best pieces. And the Art Basel brand did what it does. Art Basel Paris, which opened to V.I.P. visitors on Wednesday and runs
In June, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced the excavation of a new room, not yet open to the public, in the ruins of Pompeii. A few weeks later, a group of archaeologists gathered to marvel at it: walls covered with bright blue paint — an ex
This article is part of the Fine Arts Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artistsph dream, new audiences and new technology. “We found something.” Jesse Shelmire, a paleontologist with the San Diego Natural Histo