JR Unveiled a Huge Mural in Paris Dedicated to Victims of Police Brutality
The mural honors George Floyd and Adama Traoré, a Black man who died in police custody in France in 2016.
View ArticleStealing Black Artists’ Work for a Social Media Post Solves Nothing
Illustrator Danielle Coke noted on twitter that when white influencers repost her art without crediting her they are centering themselves.
View ArticleHank Willis Thomas Turns the US Department of Justice Building Into a Canvas...
Artist Hank Willis Thomas and think tank Incarceration Nations Network projected words by inmates onto the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
View ArticleBanksy’s Stolen Tribute to Victims of the Bataclan Attack Has Turned Up in Italy
A painting Banksy made on the Bataclan's emergency door had been stolen last year.
View ArticleVan Eyck’s Only Remaining Drawing Gets Its First Outing in 10 Years
The sketch of a beatific old man is the only undisputed surviving drawing by van Eyck.
View ArticleThe European Space Agency Is Helping Artists Create a Gallery on the Moon
Moon Gallery is a compact show of 100 works of art that will be displayed on an exterior panel of a lunar lander.
View ArticleWho Is Inigo Philbrick, the Art World Scammer Who Tricked Clients Out of $20...
Philbrick was arrested last Thursday in Vanuatu, where he'd been hiding out since October 2019.
View ArticleNYC Performance Spaces Have Stepped Up to Help Protesters, and Museums Should...
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the only museums in New York City currently participating in the Open Your Lobby initiative.
View ArticleMet Museum Commits to Confronting Racial Injustice; a Viral Instagram Post...
Writer Anisa Tavangar called out how the Met's department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas problematically groups together objects from all over the world.
View ArticleJean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Untitled (Head)’ Expected to Sell for $12 Million
Created during his period of extensive exploration of the human head; his drawings during this time would become Basquiat's crowning achievements.
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Is Reckoning With Racist Patron Avery Brundage
The museum was founded based on 8,000 objects collected by Avery Brundage, a former president of the International Olympic Committee who argued the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany should not be...
View ArticleA Letter by Van Gogh Discussing His Trips to Brothels Sold for $237,000
The letter was written while van Gogh and Gaugin were working in Arles in 1888, where they apparently made a number of trips to the local brothels together.
View ArticleHow a 14th-Century Statue of the Virgin Mary Was Discovered by a Fisherman in...
A man fishing for trout in the Sar River stumbled over what has tentatively been identified as a 700-year-old religious relic.
View ArticleAt Alone Gallery, There’s Not a Soul in Sight (But You’re Still Being Watched)
Tripoli Patterson's new gallery in East Hampton is designed to provide a completely solo art viewing experience, but he might just text you info about the art if he sees through the security cameras.
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Removes Confederate Portraits From the Capitol
'There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy,' Pelosi said.
View ArticleYou Can Zoom In On an Immaculate Copy of ‘The Last Supper’ on Google’s Arts...
The digital reproduction was made available to Google by the Royal Academy of the Arts in London.
View ArticleHow the Rise of Quarantine Nudes Inspired Artists Working in Isolation
A subculture of artists has found inspiration in nude photos provided by willing subjects stuck at home during quarantine. 'They're bored, they’re horny, they’re thinking more introspectively. All of...
View ArticleRemoving New York’s Racist Teddy Roosevelt Statue Has Wide Support—Except...
Even Roosevelt's great-grandson, Theodore Roosevelt IV, is in favor of the decision.
View ArticleRembrandt May Have Painted This Self-Portrait as a Gift For His Wife
The Old Masters version of sending your girlfriend a selfie?
View ArticleArt Restorers Call for a Crackdown on ‘Botchers’ After Another Painting Is...
'They're botchers who botch things up. They destroy things,' a Spanish art restorer told the Guardian this week after a copy of the 'Immaculate Conception' was altered beyond recognition.
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