Zachary Small

The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage deteriorated.

The entertainment company plans on displaying the toilet, saying its team is exploring “whether visitors may someday be allowed to use it.”

The art market had a summer of closures and consolidations. But major collections, blue-chip art and guarantees have pushed expectations high for the marquee sales.

The proposal, for a union to represent nearly 1,000 employees, would make the Met one of the largest unionized museums in the country.

Masterworks offers average investors a chance to buy individual shares in paintings often only owned by the rich, but critics say its marketing can overstate the upside of investing in its art.

Masterworks offers average investors a chance to buy individual shares in paintings often only owned by the rich, but critics say its marketing can overstate the upside of investing in its art.

Sasha Suda claims the museum did not have a valid reason for abruptly firing her last week from one of the most prominent jobs in the art world.

Sasha Suda was three years into her five-year contract when the museum’s board announced that she was being terminated for cause.

The flushable sculpture, “America,” was made by Maurizio Cattelan, the artist whose banana taped to the wall sold for $6.2 million last year.

Employee satisfaction has improved over the last few years, according to a new survey, but the field is troubled by low pay, burnout and “new culture wars.”

As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony’s competing console for the first time.

Architects were surprised by the scale and speed of the project, but the president is moving forward with his plans for a $250 million ballroom at the White House.

It’s the first time in nearly 20 years that the museum has asked an artist from mainland China to create artwork for its building.

For this Halloween scavenger hunt, we scoured this encyclopedic museum for the most haunting works, bloody details and hidden meanings.

The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.

The Kosovar learned he’d won a top art world honor as he was dealing with a suspected arson before the Kosovo premiere of his opera.

Her 26-year tenure transformed a curatorial experiment into a global institution. She will depart in April, after a building expansion doubling the museum’s space.

The collector’s trove of 55 works, including Klimt, Matisse and Munch, will be auctioned in November.

The exhibition aims to give a voice to people making creative work about their lives in a war zone. “These small notebooks and my pens became my refuge,” one wrote.

Amy Sherald, Having Canceled Her Smithsonian Show, Will Take Paintings to Baltimore