With the opening of “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force.

Brandon League is a walking art gallery. The free-spirited surfer from Hawaii has a body adorned with some of the most elaborate and colorful tattoos in the game. He even has his name scrolled across his shoulders, an ink-into-skin replication of what will be stitched onto the back of his new Mariners jersey this season.

Nomiya, a temporary rooftop dining room at the contemporary-art museum Palais de Tokyo, one of several high-end restaurants installed at cultural institutions in Paris.

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Works by Damien Hirst , Alberto Giacometti and Paul Gauguin attracted interest from collectors as the world’s largest art and antiques fair opened to VIP guests last night.

Like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat before him, graffiti artist Daze made the move from spray-painting walls in New York to exhibiting canvases in art galleries around the world: Tokyo, Zurich, Miami, even Iowa City, Iowa. But his latest exhibition is opening in a unexpected location: Singapore. Spray-painting is still a rare sight there, where it's still mostly associated with acts of ...

Brandon League is a walking art gallery.

DUNEDINLouis Flack had two great loves: art and his late wife, Valerie. Much to the surprise of directors at Dunedin Fine Art Center, he decided to pay tribute to both of them after he died by making the center his sole beneficiary. "We had no idea in our wildest dreams he would leave us $1 million," said George Ann Bissett, the center's executive director.

It's the cold case gripping the art world in Italy and beyond. Forensic scientists armed with the latest DNA technology may be on the verge of solving the mystery surrounding the death of one of history's most colourful and enigmatic geniuses.