News
According to documents released this morning, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the New York Office of the FBI have charged a former studio assistant to Jasper Johns with the theft of 22 "unauthorized" Johns works. The assistant, 51-year-old James Meyer of
Art
The Madrid art collective Luzinterruptus has crafted a satirical public sculpture to protest the corrupt allocation of 3.96 million Euros ($5.3 million) to shift a Christopher Columbus statue a few meters in a public square.
Art
Last night, a suburban board in Detroit signaled its intent to pass a resolution discontinuing the collection of the special tax voted in to support the Detroit Institute of Arts should the institution's art or assets be liquidated. There remains a great deal of anxiety over whether or not Detroit w
Opinion
Professional art history charlatan Silvano Vinceti has narrowed down his quest for the Mona Lisa's definitely real body to one of three skeletons exhumed from Florence's Santissima Annunziata basilica, all of which are currently being tested at the University of Bologna, the Guardian reports. The jo
Opinion
Israel Hernández-Llach of Miami was tagging a shuttered McDonalds in Miami Beach when he was approached by police and fled. It's unclear exactly how the situation unfolded from there, but Hernández-Llach was soon dead, the result of a police tazering. The officers claimed that they shocked their vic
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Opinion
"Water is essential to life," notes the opening sentence of the "Tasting Water" menu at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's in-house Ray's and Stark's Bar restaurant, which has just launched the 45-page menu and hired Martin Riese, a "water sommelier." It's the sort of believability-tickling ploy
Opinion
A study in the latest edition of the British Journal of Aesthetics portends to determine whether aesthetics are assessed through exposure, as held in a widely cited prior work of research, or if there's a discernibly innate common component to human judgments of visual value.
Books
The 20th-century artist and academic Josef Albers made many significant contributions to the field of geometric abstraction, though the most enduring element of his pedagogical legacy is his 1963 textbook Interaction of Color.
News
The Detroit News has reported that it was Emergency Manager Kevin Orr who brought in Christie's to appraise the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) collection. Orr, who in turn claimed that he is acting on behalf of creditors, has come under fire in recent weeks for his seemingly cavalier treatment of t
Art
Few magazines managed to embody the creative aesthetic of their time as Verve magazine did in the first half of the 20th century. And although the Paris-based journal last received some attention in 1988, when Verve: The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature was published, it has mostly faded into o
Art
In what might be the first-ever exhibition of artworks co-curated by an intelligence agency, a show has been mounted at Fordham University's Center Gallery to showcase some of the finer specimens of forged art seized by the FBI's Art Crimes team.
News
Military Times is reporting that the American military has discontinued the bulk of its magazine offerings, a cut affecting some 891 publications, among them 17 art and art-related periodicals.