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A Resplendent Self-portrait by Tourmaline Enters Getty Collection
In “Summer Azure,” Tourmaline rockets upward into a cloudy blue sky, holding an astronaut helmet to her head.
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David’s Painting of Eminent Scientists Depicted Them as More Elite Than Revolutionary
The original composition showed the chemists “as wealthy tax collectors and fashionable luxury consumers rather than as the progressive and scientifically minded couple that define the portrait today.”
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Installation Commemorates Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Saudi Crown Prince’s Birthday
The oversized pen bleeds red over a sheet of paper inscribed with the names of over 140 prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia.
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Emmett Till’s Life Honored in Smithsonian Exhibition
A sign remembering Till, defaced with bullets, will be displayed across from the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Bard College Receives $50M for Curatorial Studies From Hessel Foundation and George Soros
Two $25 million gifts will support financial aid, contemporary art collecting, and more at the institution.
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Someone Spray-painted a Museum of Modern Art Entrance
A video shows the museum’s glass facade and revolving doors splashed with white and green paint.
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Drake's Next Album Cover Is Comically Bad — and Designed by Damien Hirst
The cover is a deluded, self-referential tribute to Hirst's career.
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Key Buildings for Chicanx Artists Added to LA Historic-Cultural Monument List
The Centro de Arte Publico and Mechicano Art Center were recognized for their contributions to the longstanding tradition of Chicanx cultural heritage in LA.
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Black Daguerreotypists Highlighted at the Smithsonian
The American Art Museum purchased a collection of early American photographs spanning the 1840s to the mid-1920s.
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A COVID-19 Mask That Kills the Virus? Scientists Say Yes
The technology is named "SakCu" — a combination of "Sak," the word for silver in Mayan, and "Cu," the chemical symbol for copper.
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Family Behind Bob Ross Inc. Responds to Unflattering Documentary Depiction
Bob Ross, Inc. (BRI) has taken a stand against the new Netflix documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal, and Greed (2021), which chronicles the TV painter’s rise to fame and subsequent legal controversies after his death. In a public statement released yesterday , BRI denounced the film’s “inaccurate and
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Week in Review: 350+ Encourage Protections for Afghan Artists; Armenian Heritage Sites Targeted
Also, controversy erupted after a Tiffany's ad featured a Basquiat painting, and more.