Headed to Miami for Art Basel and the surrounding Art Week festivities? Here’s our roundup of the top fairs to visit for 2025 — whether you’re hunting for eyebrow-raising art or the ultimate celebrity sighting. ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH | @artbasel Show notes “Torre” by Ana Navas at Art Basel Miami Beach via Crisis Galería. … Read more
One man’s garage junk is now an art historian’s treasure. A dusty painting sitting under a garage workbench just traded places — straight into the Renaissance big leagues with a price tag fit for a Medici. Without a clue of its origins, the Oxfordshire local who snagged the priceless artwork years ago unknowingly owned a … Read more
NEW YORK — A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo of her asleep in a bed could make history Thursday when it goes on sale by Sotheby’s in New York. With an estimated price of $40 million to $60 million, “El sueño (La cama)” – in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — may surpass the top price … Read more
A recovered Gustav Klimt painting made history this past Thursday night at Sotheby’s when it became the most expensive piece of modern art to ever be sold at auction. The Vienna-born artist came to prominence during the early 20th century and is best known for his gold-leaf-laden works “The Kiss,” “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” and … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. “Saturday Night Live” was just the beginning. Just before appearing as the musical guest on the Nov. 15 Glen Powell-hosted episode, Olivia … Read more
Olivia Rose spent most of Thursday morning knee-deep in Red Delicious apples. The Manhattanite, an artist, was busy engraving 80 pieces of the produce with iconic New York Post front-page displays — from the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral crowning on Nov. 4 — for a Tribeca exhibition she … Read more
They’re rebels without a Claus. The founders of SantaCon are forced to reckon with the boozy global sensation they unintentionally created three decades ago in a new documentary — which reveals the Big Apple might have been the major turning point in its story. “SANTACON” — premiering Thursday at DOC NYC — explores the little-known … Read more
It was a perfect AI-mitation. Just in case artificial intelligence wasn’t encroaching upon enough human spaces of late. An art world troll sneakily displayed a piece of AI-generated art at a museum in the UK last month before bemused visitors alerted employees to the artificially intelligent design. The digital print had been surreptitiously showcased at … Read more
There’s an art to guiding museum tours — and this guide is one very haughty artist. A staffer at Düsseldorf’s Kunstpalast art museum puts on a twice-monthly “Grumpy Guide” tour in which the surly instructor deliberately insults and belittles his guests — to their utter bemusement. Carl Brandi guides visitors through the Kunstpalast collection as … Read more
Now this is big-picture thinking. The Fondation Louis Vuitton unveils today an exceptional exhibit of two French Impressionist masterpieces at its New York flagship. On loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, respectively, Gustave Caillebotte’s Boating Party (circa 1877-1878) and Young Man at His Window (1876) depict … Read more
You can’t get much more paradisical than the Pacific islands of Polynesia. Even the names ooze romance — Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea. The crystal clear sea is more shades of dazzling blue than you can name. The lush, dormant volcanoes rising from the white sand beaches remain untouched by development or millionaire mansions. The local … Read more
They’re out of their gourds over these celebrity pumpkins. Karrah Youngblood’s amazing likeness of Taylor Swift carved into a pumpkin racked up 11.6 million social media views, with swooning Swifties demanding she do the same for Travis Kelce. “I was like, ‘That’s a great idea. Plus he’s good looking.’ . . . I thought he … Read more
Everybody wants this. Lately, a slew of celebrities have had comebacks. Adam Brody is having a renaissance as a romantic lead. Josh Hartnett is in the midst of “The Hartnettaissance.” Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Coolidge, Noah Wyle, and Brendan Fraser have all seen second winds to their careers. “There’s not many things that Americans love more … Read more
Look what she made them do. Taylor Swift fans are flocking to a German museum to view a painting of the Shakespeare character Ophelia that the pop star reimagined in a music video for a song off her new album “The Life of a Showgirl.” In the video for “The Fate of Ophelia,” which has … Read more
For the first time in Grand Central Station’s history, there are no ads, just art. Photographer Brandon Stanton has turned the transit hub into “Dear New York,” an ambitious, two-week art installation. He’s replaced all of the 112-year-old terminal’s commercial signage with portraits of fellow New Yorkers and their personal stories, and projected 50-foot-high images … Read more
In the words of Cole Porter, “Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?” “Art Fraud: 50 Fakes That Fooled the Art World,” the new book by Susie Hodge, will leave you wondering whether any work of art is the real McCoy. “Art fraud is rife,” Hodge begins. “Many experts believe that as … Read more
They’re too good to be true. Italian police have seized 21 pieces of art suspected of being counterfeit at a Salvador Dalí exhibit. On Tuesday, a squad seized upon the exhibition in Parma — titled “Dalí, Between Art and Myth” — taking possession of the allegedly false works, which included drawings, tapestries, and engravings. Doubts … Read more
Deana Lytle felt nervous as she watched her 3-year-old son, Fitz, sit still in the back of the car, observing the pouring rain and falling trees as Helene bore down. They were fleeing toward her parents’ house in Swannanoa, N.C. “Dear God, please let us get there safely,” Ms. Lytle recalled praying aloud. They eventually … Read more
All the stars were in attendance for “Art” on Broadway’s opening night in NYC on Tuesday, September 16. The show stars James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale. From Anna Wintour to Goldie Hawn, scroll through to see all the best photos from the night. 1 of 21 Anna Wintour and Bee Carrozzini attend … Read more
Theater review ART Ninety minutes with no intermission at the Music Box Theatre. Much in the way that Serge’s two best friends cannot fathom why he purchased a totally white painting for $300,000, I fail to understand the enduring popularity of the play “Art.” French writer Yasmina Reza’s 1998 whine-and-cheese comedy, which opened at the … Read more