Sometimes making art can be straightforward, nothing more than a person standing on a box for a minute, striking a pose, and having their photograph taken. These are the instructions for Piero Manzoni ...

“Piero Manzoni. Materials of his Time” at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street (2019), installation view, photo: Thomas Barratt, © Fondazione Piero Manzoni ...

Tickling the very concept of art, the Italian artist gained fame by tinning his own profundities and taking a line for a four-mile walk – all before he died aged 29 I first discovered Piero Manzoni ...

In 2000 the Tate bought a tin purporting to be the excrement of Italian artist Piero Manzoni for £22,350 from Sotheby's. The news provoked outrage. How could Nicholas Serota lavish such money on this ...

The Piero Manzoni Foundation in Milan has come under fire after it revealed that it destroyed 39 works—mostly paintings, purportedly by the late artist—in December. Piero Manzoni, who died at the age ...

A group of London School masterpieces from the collection of Joe Lewis generated £35.8 million, led by strong results for works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. “..Lines’ unfold over two floors and ...

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist or exhibition you should know.

In his brief but intense life as an artist, Piero Manzoni embraced and then cast off traditional aspects of visual art. Along with other post-war European artists, he experimented with all manner of ...

In 1877, the eminent critic John Ruskin cast a gimlet eye on Nocturne in Black and Gold, an impressionistic painting by James McNeill Whistler on sale at London's newly opened Grosvenor Gallery. "I ...