In Brief
The Louvre Will Offer Private Tours for Just $34 During Closed Hours
The new program, created in partnership with Airbnb, is designed to attract locals to the museum at times when it's not crowded with tourists.
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Art
Stream Docs About Beauty, Robin Williams in Aladdin, and More
This week, in our ongoing series on the best recent documentaries, we also highlight shorts about video games, reflecting the close relationship between YouTube and gaming.
News
Spongebob Painting Goes for $6M, Annie Leibovitz Portrait of Queen Still Up for Grabs
Plus, two Dutch Golden Age paintings will be returned to the family of art collector Jacob Lierens, and works by Basquiat, Rockwell, Warhol, and others are in the news.
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These Digital Stickers Bring New Life to the Renowned Unicorn Tapestries
Sunil Abraham, a quantitative researcher from Brooklyn, made 87 cutouts from the famous hangings.
Film
Juliette Binoche Offers a Tantalizing Performance in Her Two Latest Films
In both High Life and Non-Fiction, Binoche is a temptress equally tender and intimidating.
Art
Archaeologists May Have Found the Place Where Roman Emperors Were Baptized
Excavations conducted around the largest Christian cathedral built in the ancient Mediterranean have yielded new archaeological discoveries.
News
Week in Review: Paris Will Get a 100-Acre Park, Democrats Propose Increased Budgets for NEA and NEH
Also, Sotheby's will be the first international auction house to offer Indigenous Australian art outside of Australia or Europe, the Prado Museum is putting together a "disaster plan," and more.
In Brief
Middle Schoolers Reported Racism from Staff and Patrons During a School Trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
The museum has issued an apology for the "range of challenging and unacceptable experiences that made them feel unwelcome" and has launched an investigation.
Art
Courtroom Sketches from Ai Weiwei's Legal Battle Against Volkswagen
The artist has filed a lawsuit against the company for copyright infringement after the automaker used one of his works about the refugee crisis as a backdrop for its cars.
Art
The Curious Case of a Missing Monet
Lawrence Denham thought he struck gold when he found the French impressionist's painting on sale for $1,000; instead, he may have unwittingly revealed a scheme of online art fraud totaling more than $400,000.
Announcement
Reimagining Contemporary Art Education at Purchase College’s New Media Arts MFA Program
The program will specialize in interdisciplinary, beyond-the-studio learning. Applications are now open for Fall 2019.
In Brief
Artists Use Liquor Bottles and Inflatable Tanks to Highlight the Pain of Tiananmen Square Protests
30 years later, suggestive liquor bottles and inflatable military tanks capture the fraught response to the legacy of civil disobedience in China and Taiwan.