In the brief respite between miart and Art Cologne, I was invited to join some art-world-style extracurricular activities closer to home: a charity quiz at the (so-called) Arts Club in London, a ...

With more time being spent at home than perhaps ever before, it’s no wonder that we all might start wanting to spruce up our abodes, and where better to start with a few artworks to adorn the bare ...

It was once remarked that the only way for a woman to be involved in a painting was for her to disrobe and be a model. Thankfully, things have changed – well, mostly. Anyone who has taken art in ...

Last week Chicago’s dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute’s department of ...

Art has, since time immemorial, given people a medium to express themselves. Be it the scratches of everyday life on the walls of a cave, to the splashes of paint on a canvas that showed an artist’s ...

Andy Warhol, Liz #3 [Early Colored Liz], 1963. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. Over the past five years, the market for contemporary art has ballooned. Whether the reason is supply or shifting taste (or, more ...

When we think about the good life, art and food rank pretty high in importance. (OK, we at The Salt might be a little biased.) So it seems only natural that the two mix. Foods crop up in all kinds of ...