Tracy Zwick

Viennese Expressionist Egon Schiele was perhaps most exciting and provocative in his portraits, which are the subject of an exhibition opening today at New York's Neue Galerie. .. Read more

Dutch artist and instigator Jeanne van Heeswijk arrives in New York this week to begin her yearlong stint as the inaugural Keith Haring Fellow upstate at Bard College, where she'll "work with students to address questions about how people can better exercise their rights to their own environments," she told A.i.A. by phone last week from New Zealand... Read more

A bill recently proposed in New York's legislature by Republican Senator Betty Little and Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal aims to protect art specialists who render good faith judgments about an artwork's attribution from lawsuits they say are "meritless" and "expensive and frivolous," raising the burden of proof on claimants and allowing authenticators to recover litigation expenses from the plaintiffs... Read more

New York's spring evening sales concluded Thursday with a $131 million contemporary art sale at Phillips, led by Mark Rothko, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Records were set for Tauba Auerbach ($1 million), Dana Schutz ($482,500) and Warhol and Basquiat working together ($10.5 million). .. Read more

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced a retooled version of his 2011 resale royalties bill yesterday that would give living visual artists or their heirs a cut of the profits when their work--paintings, drawings, photographs or sculptures--is resold through an auction house or online... Read more

From pigmented latex to beeswax, metals, polyurethane foam, glass and paper, American sculptor Lynda Benglis, 72, has explored materials widely in her nearly 50-year career. Her newest body of work includes 24 untitled ceramic tabletop sculptures made in Taos, N.M., now on view at New York gallery Cheim & Read (through Feb. 15)... Read more

In PLAY (2013), Dara Friedman's new film and video work, now on view at New York gallery Gavin Brown's Enterprise, a cast of 32 often naked actors perform 17 vignettes about intimacy, fantasy and pleasure in keys ranging from gauzily idyllic to mildly violent... Read more

The U.S. Copyright Office released a 124-page report Friday reversing its 20-year-old position opposing resale royalties, also known as droit de suite, for visual artists. Federal legislation that could significantly impact artists' incomes and art dealers' profits will follow early next year, said the forthcoming bill's sponsor, Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York... Read more

Starting off a busy week of postwar and contemporary art auctions, last night's contemporary art sale at New York's Phillips auction house tallied just over $68 million, just above its low estimate... Read more

A suite of 40 never-before-exhibited drawings that show French painter Balthus (1908-2001) to have been a child prodigy is part of the show "Balthus: Cats and Girls," now at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 12, 2014)... Read more

This summer, the Texas Department of Transportation (DOT)  pronounced artist Richard Phillips's latest work, an outdoor roadside sculpture near Marfa, Tex., and commissioned by Playboy Enterprises, to be unlawful advertising and ordered the company to remove it. Close by is Prada Marfa (2005), a site-specific Land art project by Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, which the DOT has also deemed illegal... Read more

"Syria's heritage is under attack," said Irina Bokova, director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in a press briefing Wednesday at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art... Read more

Sotheby's auction house has emerged victorious in a battle over a Cady Noland artwork it withdrew from auction in November 2011... Read more

The painter Kerry James Marshall is known for taking on American historyfrom a black perspective. A significant sampling of his work is on view in Washington, D.C., at the National Gallery of Art's first-ever solo show of a living black artist... Read more