In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, thieves have stolen 17 valuable artworks from a museum.
November 20, 2015
The Louvre Is Empty
One week after terrorists killed 129 people in Paris, the French capital remains quiet, including its museums.
Exact Location of Vermeer’s “The Little Street” Discovered
Researchers in Amsterdam have pinpointed the long-debated location depicted in Vermeer’s painting “The Little Street” using sources from 17th-century records to Google Maps, the Rijksmuseum has announced.
The Refined Sloppiness of a No Wave Cinema Gem
Eric Mitchell once described his 1978 No Wave film Kidnapped as “a 1960s underground movie happening today.”
Sketches from a Carnivalesque Weekend of Brooklyn Performance Art
A different kind of paean to the carnivalesque transpires in New York City, outside RoseLee Goldberg’s curatorial reach.
Made in Cuba but Exhibited in LA
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — As US–Cuba relations begin to thaw, a pop-up art show continues the decades-long work of cultural diplomacy by Cuban artists.
The Radiance of the French Renaissance in Miniature
While the grandest glories of the French Renaissance were the elaborate castles circling Paris and adorning the Loire Valley, down in Central France a much smaller art form flourished.
Art Movements
This week in art news: Over 4,500 objects from the British Museum can now be viewed online, MoMA returns a Kirchner stolen from a Jewish collector by the Nazis, and Sotheby’s prepares for a sale of Star Wars memorabilia.
Hand-Cut Newspaper Mosaics Slow Down Our Reading
When she approaches a newsstand, Montreal-based artist Myriam Dion often buys 20 copies of that day’s paper — at times, even more than that.
In Wake of Terrorist Attacks, France Looks to Fight ISIS with Cultural Preservation
This week, France announced two plans to fight back against ISIS’s cultural destruction. French culture minister Fleur Pellerin unveiled a $6 million fund that will help France’s cultural institutions recover from the recent attack.
An Artist Persists in Syria in a Time of War
HONG KONG — What does it feel like to be an artist as the art and architecture of your culture is systematically being obliterated?
Prosthetic Devices for the Modern Psyche
Susanna Hertrich is as much a designer and researcher as she is an artist; her show at Art Laboratory Berlin constructs a narrative in which human senses, instincts, and emotions are prosthetically enhanced to better suit the specific challenges of the 21st century.