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This week in art news: anti-immigration protesters demonstrated at the unveiling of Manaf Halbouni's monument to the people of Aleppo, Sotheby's sued a dealer and a collector over an allegedly forged Frans Hals, and the Louvre reopened 24 hours after a man attacked a French soldier with a machete ne
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This week in art news: cultural organizations spoke out against President Trump's travel ban, art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad opposed the nomination of Betsy DeVos as US Secretary of Education, and the Library of Congress digitized 20,000 items from the papers of Sigmund Freud.
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This week in art news: South Korea’s culture minister was arrested for allegedly drafting an artists' blacklist, the Museum of Modern Art discarded a Pat Lasch sculpture, and the National Museum of American History pulled a book about President Trump from its gift shop after it was found to contain
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This week in art news: galleries and nonprofits participate in the #J20 Art Strike, the president-elect’s transition team reportedly plan to abolish the NEA and the NEH, and a Kickstarter for inauguration day posters raised over $1.3 million.
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This week in art news: dealer and collector Guy Wildenstein was cleared of charges that he'd concealed artworks to avoid taxes, financial disclosures revealed Steven Mnuchin's multimillion-dollar stake in a Willem de Kooning painting, and the artist behind the "Hollyweed" prank turned himself in.
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This week in art news: Facebook blocked a photo of a statue of Neptune for being "sexually explicit," the Louvre's attendance dropped following terrorist attacks in Paris, and a long-lost self-portrait by a female painter of the Dutch Golden Age was found.
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This week in art news: Yoshitomo Nara was sued by a cosmetics company he claims copied his work, a Henry Moore sculpture was installed at Columbia University despite students deeming it a "monstrosity," and India began construction on the world's tallest statue.
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This week in art news: San Francisco's Academy of Art University agreed to pay the city a $60-million settlement, a Manhattan art dealer was charged with trafficking illegal antiquities, and the first UK exhibition dedicated to the Moomins opened in London.
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This week in art news: ISIS recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the release of two jailed Tehran gallerists, and an 18th-century Chinese seal sold for $22 million at auction — over 20 times its estimate.
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This week in art news: Swiss authorities seized antiquities looted from Palmyra, dozens of artists were evicted from a Baltimore studio building, and the mayor of the Greek island of Milos demanded the Louvre return the Venus de Milo.
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This week in art news: a museum discovered that an 800-year-old Mixtec skull in its collection is a forgery, Iran barred works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art from leaving the country, and Zaha Hadid Architects distanced itself from principal Patrik Schumacher's pro-gentrification comment
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This week in art news: Giorgio Vasari's "Last Supper" was reinstalled 50 years after being damaged by flooding, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned a white nationalist conference that took place nearby, and David Hockney was commissioned to create a stained glass window for Westminster Abbey.