The Embattled Museum of the Bible Has Returned Over 5,000 Ancient Artifacts...
The museum has been plagued with scandals for a while: last year, it acknowledged that all of its "Dead Sea Scroll" fragments were fake.
View ArticleA Highly Sought-After Botticelli Portrait Just Sold for a Record-Breaking $92...
Previously, the highest price a work by Botticelli had fetched at auction was $10.4 million in 2013.
View ArticleAngelina Jolie is Selling the One Painting Winston Churchill Made During...
Jolie and Pitt amassed a large art collection while they were together, but certain items have begun to be unloaded.
View ArticleThe Guerrilla Girls Say They Axed a Book Contract With Phaidon Due to Epstein...
Phaidon has been owned by MoMA's Leon Black since 2012. Just days ago, reports emerged that Black paid Epstein $158 million over 5 years.
View ArticleDamien Hirst’s Fake Shipwreck Treasures Will Be Displayed Alongside Works by...
'Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable' is an exhibition debuted in 2017 that featured 190 works culled from a fictional shipwreck.
View ArticleArtists and Art Workers Are Speaking Out to Ask for Leon Black’s Removal from...
In a series of statements signed by artists like Nan Goldin and Paddy Johnson, collectives and protest groups are agitating for change.
View ArticleFormer Met Director Compares Deaccessioning to Crack Addiction in...
Thomas P. Campbell took to Instagram on Sunday to compare institutional deaccessioning to crack cocaine addiction.
View ArticlePresidential Nikes That Were Made for Barack Obama are a Relic of a Very...
On February 12th, Sotheby's is auctioning off one of the two pairs of these sneakers that were ever made.
View ArticleThe Internet Accuses Kim Kardashian of Lying About North West’s Art
A teenager on TikTok said her art teacher mother taught North how to paint, but others aren't convinced the 7-year-old has the skills.
View ArticleAmsterdam’s ‘Slavery’ Exhibition Links Dutch Colonial Art to the Slave Trade
A Rembrandt portrait of a sugar refinery heir and dioramas made for Europeans both show how art smoothed over the raw edges of reality.
View ArticleLACMA Will No Longer Provide Its Director with Housing, Setting a New Precedent
Museums have been considering deaccessioning artwork to raise funds, but perks for executives aren't necessary expenditures.
View ArticleIrving Penn Lensed Images So Real We Wish We Could Experience Them
“What I yearn for as a photographer is someone who will connect the work of photographers to that of sculptors and painters of the past.”
View ArticleToday’s Google Doodle Honors María Grever, Who Penned Songs Covered by Frank...
Grever was tutored in her childhood by Debussy, and grew up to write hundreds of original songs.
View ArticleArtist Dominic Chambers Has a New Vision of Black Intellectualism
Black voices are being heard in a way that they haven’t necessarily been heard before, and what I want to do with this work is have a conversation about that.
View ArticleChristie’s is Cutting Off Public Access to Its Extensive Auction Archive in...
The auction house attributed the change to the coronavirus-induced reduction of the archives team.
View ArticleAsh Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time
“As I began to make the first series of new works for Linden in September and October, I let the material and the energy in making the work take on a life of its own,” Keating recalls. “The perlite,...
View ArticleNotorious Arts Scammer Anna Sorokin Has Been Released from Prison Early
The woman who passed herself off as a German heiress to scam New York City's arts elite is once again a free woman (on parole).
View ArticleThe Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Has Agreed to Return Ancient Thai Relics
Thai archaeologists believe that the relics were stolen and looted from the Nong Hong and Khao Lon temples over 1,000 years ago.
View ArticleConceptual Artist Alex Da Corte Has Landed the Met’s 2021 Roof Garden Commission
Da Corte's star has been rising over the years due to his dizzyingly strange large-scale installations that marry kitsch with dread.
View ArticleBritish Cultural Leaders are Being Told to “Retain and Explain” Problematic...
This month, UK cultural leaders will be told that a "noisy minority of activists" is "trying to do Britain down" by complaining.
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