Blake Gopnik

Phil Collins's video installation shows the lengths we'll go to just for a feeling.

Has all the art in the world been made?

Is Singapore open to fostering disruptive art?

An exhibition looks at abstraction—the movement that defines 
modern art. By Blake Gopnik

The rich keep spending millions and driving up prices. But what happens when the bubble bursts?

Irish-born Corban Walker explores 'life-size' art.

Sitting in a deluxe meeting room in an office in midtown Manhattan, David Lauren, an executive vice president of the Ralph Lauren Corp. and second son of the famous designer, does something you wouldn't expect of a fashion executive: he reveals that the elegant suit he has on—double-breasted and wide-lapelled in navy-blue wool, worn with a pin-dotted tie—is in fact 20 years old.

Why he showed us the world in black and white.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen-the world's first masterpiece-collecting, Jimi Hendrix-worshiping philanthropist.

The Met examines Warhol and his imitators.

Two U.S. museums wrestle with the provenance question.

New geniuses are just waiting to be discovered.

Art galleries are getting huge.

Can seven aspiring dealers teach the world about art?

Boetti's works foreshadowed our postmodern world.

A new show looks back at our toy story.

From the moment the followers of Muhammad came roaring out of Arabia, in A.D. 633, they've cherished beautiful things. An exhibition that just closed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York showed how the first Muslims were inspired by glorious works from the Greek-speaking world, and their descendants never stopped being art-friendly.

A mix-and-match man breaks items down, then builds them back up.

The very idea of furniture, sketched in the air, made real.

Cutting-edge designers from six countries give us a glimpse of the future today.

A trio of Dutchmen aims to create, and sell, the impossible.

A cure for loneliness from a couple of romantics.

A Scottish designer freezes flight and "materializes" emotions.

Get ready for the Olympics of the art world.

How Roy Lichtenstein pioneered our clip-art world. By Blake Gopnik.

Can Qatar purchase a place in the cultural big leagues?

A new Met show takes on the fertile intersection of Islam and Roman Christianity.

Damien Hirst repackages Warhol for our times and sells himself. By Blake Gopnik.

Tom Friedman was once the art world's golden boy. Can he claw his way back?

A new show highlights Van Gogh's savvy, while the latest book makes him sound nuts.