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A Handbook for Artists Facing Persecution
PEN America has released a critical guide for artists at risk, created with input from persecuted creators around the world.
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Week in Review: Gallery Graffitied With QAnon Conspiracies; MCA Chicago Lays off 11% of Staff
Also, MoMA Chairman Leon Black stepped down as CEO of his equity firm following a review of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but remains on the museum board.
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Museum of Bible Returns 5,000 Artifacts With “Insufficient” Provenance to Egypt
The US Department of Homeland Security returned the artifacts to Cairo yesterday, concluding Egypt’s efforts to retrieve the items since 2016.
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In an Unusual Crime, Someone Threw a Stolen Painting Into the Gardner Museum
The Boston museum, the site of one of history’s most notorious unsolved art crimes, now finds itself indirectly connected to another.
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A Fanciful Collection of Over 4,000 Rare Surrealist Books and Periodicals
Collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong, who have been building a collection of international Surrealist literature since the 1960s, donated the trove to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
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Pore Over Painstaking Details of “Girl With a Pearl Earring” in This 10 Billion-Pixel Panorama
A 3D microscope captured 9,100 photographs of the painting, stitching them together to create an exceptionally intimate experience of Vermeer’s masterpiece.
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Cuban Police Detained Artists During Peaceful Demonstration Honoring Writer José Martí
Tania Bruguera and Katherine Bisquet were among those detained prior to a peaceful demonstration convened by the 27N Movement in front of the Ministry of Culture in Havana.
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Montreal Gallery Vandalized With QAnon Graffiti on Eve of Biden Inauguration
Ralph Alfonso, co-founder of BBAM! Gallery, believes that the spray painting of “Pedogate” is related to the gallery’s current exhibition, "You're Gayer Than A Picnic Basket."
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Artist Edmund de Waal Donates 2,000 Books to Iraqi Library Decimated by ISIS
The artist donated his “library of exile” to the Mosul University Library, once one of the largest libraries in West Asia, housing over a million books and rare historical materials before it was destroyed.
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MCA Chicago Lays Off 41 Workers, Prompting Backlash
Citing a revenue drop due to the pandemic, the museum has cut 11% of its workforce.
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MoMA Chairman Leon Black Steps Down as CEO of Equity Firm Following Review of Jeffrey Epstein Ties
A company report determined that Epstein had provided “legitimate advice” to Black related to the billionaire’s vast art collection.
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Meet YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries
The vibrant pigment, created accidentally in 2009 by chemists at Oregon State University, is now commercially available.