She has led Moscow's renowned Pushkin Museum for more than half a century, helped Russians discover the art of her friend Marc Chagall and battled to bring late impressionist art out of the vaults and into public view.

With private jets filling the air and lines of luxury limousines on the ready, deep-pocketed collectors from around the world have flocked to Switzerland this week for Art Basel, the biggest contemporary art fair on the planet.

American hard rock band Aerosmith will perform at a rock festival in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung Aug. 24, the first time the legendary band will perform in Taiwan, festival organizers announced yesterday.

Berlin Wednesday kicks off the reconstruction of its palace, a divisive 590-million-euro (US$783 million) project to recreate the baroque architectural jewel whose post-war remnants were razed by communist leaders.

Auctioneers are pinning their hopes on “uber-collectors” to help London summer art sales top last year's US$1 billion total when the series kicks off later this month.

Willi Sitte, one of the most prominent painters of former Communist East Germany, whose talent also brought him recognition in the West, has died at the age of 92 after a long illness, German media reported on Saturday.

Visitors to the Eiffel Tower began getting a little extra for the price of their entry ticket on Thursday with the unveiling of a new landmark on Paris's artistic landscape.

A new flagship museum dedicated to Mediterranean civilization in Marseille is hoping to shake off the southern metropolis' reputation as France's deadliest city with a drastic cultural makeover.

Massimiliano Gioni is the youngest curator ever at the world's oldest contemporary art fair — the Venice Biennale.

The power of money, tragedy and destruction: the world looks pitiless and harsh through the lens of the 55th Biennale art festival in Venice, which starts on Saturday.