Wax Lincoln Sculpture Melts into Memes, France Won’t Pay for Mona Lisa’s Own...
The Headlines MELTING LINCOLN. Jokes about a melting wax sculpture of the Lincoln Memorial, which has drooped into a “hot mess” amid record temperatures in Washington, D.C., are making waves online....
View ArticleStedelijk Museum Will Return Matisse Painting to Jewish Heirs of Albert Stern
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam will return a Henri Matisse painting to the heirs of a Jewish textile manufacturer who sold the piece while fleeing Nazi Germany. The institution announced on June 25...
View ArticleOriginal ‘Harry Potter’ Cover Smashes Auction Records, Selling for $1.9 M.
The original watercolor on the cover of the first book in the “Harry Potter” series sold for nearly four times its previous record, going for $1.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday. This...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules Against Civil Liability Protections for the Sackler Family
The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Sackler family could not be legally protected in actions related to the opioid crisis, according to the New York Times. The decision was related to a...
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Anton van Dalen, Artist Who Lovingly Chronicled New York’s East Village, Dies...
Anton van Dalen, an artist who devoted much of his career to memorializing the East Village, the New York neighborhood he called home for more than 50 years, died on Tuesday at 86. A representative...
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London’s June Auction Season Is Under the Microscope after Mixed Sales...
We’re in the thick of a slimmed-down summer season.After wiping its June evening sale in London off the calendar, Christie’s was hoping bidders would be hungry for the white-hot artists propping up...
View ArticleBrauer Museum Closes Amid Controversial Plans to Deaccession O’Keeffe Painting
Indiana’s Valparaiso University has closed its Brauer Museum of Art and dismissed its director, Jonathan Canning, amid a controversy over plans to sell key works of art from its collection. The moves...
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How Warehouse Terrada Turned Reclaimed Land at the Edge of Tokyo into Japan’s...
In a July 2023 report, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reported that the country’s art market in 2021 was approximately $1.5 billion. However, the latest Art Basel UBS report,...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe’s Home Declared a Landmark, Kehinde Wiley Accuser Responds to...
The Headlines MARILYN MONROE’S MANSION in Los Angeles has been declared a landmark in a bid to save it from demolition by its owners, according to Variety. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council...
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Queer Artists Brought Pain, History, and Hope to the 60th Venice Biennale
Deep within the cavernous Arsenale di Venezia, amidst hundreds of works on view at the 60th edition of the Biennale, two paintings by Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe offer an invitation into a queer,...
View ArticleMarina Abramovic to Quiet Glastonbury Attendees for Seven Minutes to Mark a...
Glastonbury, the widely attended music festival in England, generally makes a lot of noise, and this year will be no different, with fans there to see acts such as SZA, Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Avril...
View ArticleBrooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center Among New York’s Designated Cooling Centers...
With what is expected to be the hottest summer on record upon us, many people will seek temporary relief from the extreme conditions of heatwaves, as they did earlier this month, in unlikely places:...
View ArticleKendall Jenner Walks Around the Louvre Barefoot During Private Visit
Model, beauty entrepreneur, and reality television star Kendall Jenner recently uploaded photographs on Instagram documenting a recent visit to the Louvre Museum in Paris at midnight while it was...
View ArticleNew York City Mayor Eric Adams Restores $111 M. in Funding to Museums and...
After months of uncertainty, New York City Mayor Eric Adams reached a deal with the City Council on a new budget for 2025 that restores funding to libraries, parks, museums, and cultural institutions...
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Kimiyo Mishima, Japanese Sculptor of Ceramic Newspapers, Dies at 91
Kimiyo Mishima, a Japanese artist whose ceramic sculptures of newspapers that have begun to gain an international audience, has died, according to the Japan News. She was 91. Having initially begun as...
View ArticleFlorida’s Ron DeSantis Says ‘Sexual’ Festival Caused Him to Veto $32 M. in...
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has given the public some clarity on his veto last week of $32 million in arts and culture grants from next year’s state budget. According to a story published in the...
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A New Photo Exhibition by David Hockey’s Longtime Dealer Shows the Artist and...
The tale of the artiste maudit is often spun to inject mystery and intrigue into the lives of great painters, that image of a tortured soul working all hours for peanuts, fingers worn to...
View ArticleVideo: Arlene Shechet Brings Color and Humor to Her Monumental Sculptures
Art in America’s Summer 2024 “Icons” issue features a profile of Arlene Shechet, a sculptor known for her modestly scaled mixed-media works. As Glenn Adamson writes in his story, Shechet’s...
View ArticleIndependent Report Finds Bührle Foundation’s Provenance Research “Not...
An independent report recently found that provenance research done by the E. G. Bührle Foundation into its collection was “not sufficient” and the foundation’s published findings omitted information...
View ArticleBanksy Sends Inflatable Migrant Raft Into Glastonbury Crowd
On Friday, performance artist Marina Abramović successfully led the crowd at Glastonbury, a British music festival that attracts more than 200,000 people regularly, in seven minutes of silence, a...
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