Art
Darkly Funny Paintings Mash Up Comix and Cubism
Lucia Love is a talented, Brooklyn-based artist, but if you Google her name you'll probably find a different Lucia Love — a British hardcore porn star.
Benjamin Sutton
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: police took down a noose art installation, the leader of a Chinese antiquities looting ring was sentenced to death, and someone stole a public sculpture of a porcupine.
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Lost Caravaggio May Have Been Discovered in French Attic
A painting that a French family found in their attic while investigating a leaky roof may be a long-lost Caravaggio.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: seven Andy Warhol prints went missing from a museum, two men were arrested as authorities recovered a stolen Edvard Munch, and a Russian cultural critic was murdered.
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Cairo's Townhouse Gallery Partially Collapses
The façade of the historic building building at 10 Nabrawy Street in downtown Cairo that houses part of the revered Townhouse Gallery collapsed on Wednesday morning.
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Artist Claims Copyright to Four Photos of Robert Mapplethorpe in $65 Million Lawsuit
On Tuesday, the poet, actor, photographer, and makeup artist James R. Miller filed a lawsuit against the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, claiming copyright to four photographs that have been shown and sold for decades as Mapplethorpe's work.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: an artist sued two dealers for plotting to split up and sell off his installation, the Pompidou's former managing director racked up €40,000 in taxi fees, and a group of art students accused their professor of being a sleazeball.
Interview
Liberate Tate Activists Look Back on Six Years of Fighting BP Sponsorship
Last month, BP announced that it will end its 26-year-long sponsorship of Tate.
In Brief
Louisiana Republicans Target State Spending on Public Art
Louisiana, like many states and municipalities in the US, has had a "Percent for Art" law on the books for years.
In Brief
Starchitect Zaha Hadid Dead at 65
Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraqi-British architect, has died of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, the BBC first reported.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a UFO museum's flying saucer sculpture was stolen and smashed, a Japanese dealer was arrested trying to unload a $1.1 million antiquity, and Cambridge University tried to cover up the theft of a model skull.
Art
An Artist Navigates the Capitalist Code of Global Shipping
Art history is full of seascapes depicting the ocean as either a thoroughly charted territory over which nations fight and do trade, or an unknowable force that is forever beyond human control.