On Tuesday, Pope Francis announced that the new director of the Vatican Museums will be the Italian art historian Barbara Jatta.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is transforming four stations of its new Second Avenue Subway into an underground art museum – the largest permanent public art installation in New York State history.

An arc of mirrored posts installed by American artist Phillip K Smith III reflected the colours of the Southern Californian landscape as they changed throughout the day.

It’s that time of the year when we pause to take stock of the artists that caught our eye in 2016, while also looking ahead at the packed roster of exciting museum and gallery exhibitions in the months to come across the United States.

Working with wood and metal, Korean artist Jae Hyo Lee creates pristine formed and intricate sculptures.

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on the occasion of their 2016 gala event in tribute to Ed Ruscha and his 60 years of contribution to the arts.

The fluid, organic forms of sculptor Tony Cragg fill the church-like interiors of Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany, for a large-scale monographic exhibition on the artist’s most recent work.

The Curator-at-Large of LA-based The Institute of Art and Olfaction (IAO) and the Co-Founder of The Honolulu Biennial Foundation (HBF), Dr. Kóan Jeff Baysa interviews Italian artist Massimo Alfaioli about his work in illustration and a new project for A Lab on Fire.

There was much art-world hype earlier in the year about Robert Rauschenberg's famously fragile Monogram goat travelling to London for the first time in two decades.

Since her storied, mid-1990s video installation Wallfuckin', Italian artist Monica Bonvicini's practice has focused on two rather unusual themes: walls and sex.

Everytime I see the work of DAVID OSTROWSKI, I can’t help but to remember an article about him explaining that he spends 80 percent of his time at his studio overlooking the Rhine River and not painting.

Colombian-born, Barcelona-based artist Cesar Biojo has made a name for himself with his series of portraits and nudes that mix realism, impressionism and abstract art to reveal the transience and elusiveness of human nature.

Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki departs from the traditional norms of wood carving techniques by introducing surreal motifs into his sculptural work.

Though photography is a much younger medium than painting—the first photo is widely considered to date from 1826—the astonishing technological advances since then mean that there are now far more pictures taken every day than there are canvases in all the world’s galleries and museums.

Heroe is the title of a solo exhibition by French artist CAMILLE BLATRIX currently on view at Wattis Institute in San Francisco.