One of Florine Stettheimer’s Famously Rare Paintings is Going Up for Auction
During her lifetime, Stettheimer rarely exhibited or sold her work and wanted it to be destroyed upon the event of her death.
View ArticleFrance’s Restitution of Art to Benin and Senegal Has Hit a Snag
The French Senate has been tussling over word choice in a proposed new law, as well as the formation of a new national council.
View ArticleBy Embracing Online Auctions, Sotheby’s Pulled Over $5 Billion in Sales in 2020
70% of Sotheby's auctions took place online this year, as opposed to 30% in 2019.
View ArticleThe Most Controversial and Ambitious Art Heists of 2020
This year, museums that sat empty due to the coronavirus were extremely vulnerable to thefts, and robberies indeed frequently took place.
View ArticleWhat the Newly-Passed COVID-19 Relief Bill Means for Theater and the Visual Arts
Museums that have yet to be built have finally been authorized, and struggling, existing spaces will receive financial aid.
View ArticleAn Observer Tribute to the Creative Talent We Lost in 2020
Honoring those who touched our lives with their works, ideas and lives.
View ArticleA Statue of a Slave and Lincoln that Frederick Douglass Criticized Has Been...
"It does not, as it seems to me, tell the whole truth," Douglass wrote of the statue, which shows a slave kneeling before Lincoln, in 1876.
View ArticleA Huge Concrete Vagina Sculpture is Drawing Attention to Women’s Rights in...
Only a few days ago, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tweeted that "abortion will never be approved on our land."
View ArticleA Spanish Research Team Has Attributed a Recently Found Canvas to El Greco
The painting's small size could indicate that it was used as a model for larger canvases, a researcher said.
View ArticleImpulsive Millennial Buyers are Breathing Life into the Pandemic Art Market
According to the chairman of Sotheby's fine art division, millennial buyers rarely ask to see condition reports.
View ArticleThis Record-Breaking Ring Has 12,638 Diamonds but Appears Too Big to Wear
The ring, which was made by Renani Jewels in India, broke the Guinness World Record for most diamonds set in one ring.
View ArticleArt Fairs in 2021 Will Likely be Local Affairs Instead of Jet-Setting Ones
Frieze L.A. is planning to be scattered throughout different locations, while Frieze New York has cut its exhibitor roster by two-thirds.
View ArticleShepard Fairey, KAWS, and More Contribute to This Film on Behalf of Young...
The film consists of 1,500 individual digital frames, each one of which was made by a different artist or artists.
View Article6,500 Silver Coins Centuries-Old Have Been Uncovered in a Polish Village
The discovery site is close to a location where, in 1935, 13,061 medieval silver ornaments and coins were also found.
View ArticleRichard Serra’s Repeatedly-Vandalized Qatar Work Has Been Damaged Again
'East West/West East' (2014) has been repeatedly vandalized in the wake of regional sanctions that have affected Qatar.
View ArticleHow Vulnerable is the Capitol Building’s Art Collection to Another Attack?
This week, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and smeared a bust of Zachary Taylor with a substance that appears to be blood.
View ArticleNew York’s Jewish Heritage Museum Was Targeted in an Anti-Semitic Attack
The incident occurred just days after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by Trump supporters, some of them clad in anti-Semitic attire.
View ArticleMatthew Bollinger’s Time-Consuming Portraits Shed Light on Missing Indigenous...
I started digging in online databases finding information on these young women who had gone missing on reservations. It was so sad that their identities had been reduced to these statistical images...
View ArticleActivists Pushing Back Against European Possession of African Art Appear in...
Activist Mwazulu Diyabanza Siwa Lemba said that recent demonstrations at museums were done to accelerate the process of restitution.
View ArticleAn Escape to Paul Cadmus and H.D.’s Beautiful Queer Beach
In the case of both the poet and the artist, it is this thrusting of their own complex, “problematic” (for their times) personhood out into the elements that contributes most forcefully to their...
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