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Rembrandt van Rijn Etching Sells for Over $80,000 at Swann Galleries Sale
Plus, the iconic black outfit worn by Olivia Newton-John in the film Grease has sold, along with a $4 million painting by Édouard Manet.
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Marciano Art Foundation Abruptly Closes in Wake of Unionization Effort
Citing low attendance, the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles announced its decision to close indefinitely. The closure came just days after 60 employees publicly announced intentions to unionize.
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Iraqi Artists Face Travel Obstacles to Visit Gulf Wars Exhibition at MoMA PS1
Some of the artists participating in the exhibition were denied travel visas to the US, while others had no chance of attending the exhibition's opening because of Trump's travel ban or their asylum status in other countries.
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Dread Scott's "Slave Rebellion" Promises an Empowering Take on the Historical Reenactment Trope
In 1811, hundreds of enslaved people marched through Louisiana chanting “freedom or death.” While their oft-forgotten journey ended in massacre, artist Dread Scott spent six years organizing a reenactment to celebrate the legacy of their courage, to be staged November 8-9.
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Salvador Dalí's Tarot Cards Will Tell Your Surreal Future
The deck was originally created for the 1970s James Bond film Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore and Jane Seymour, but it never appeared in the picture.
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Tenants of Downtown LA Art Colony Face Evictions, But Might Have the Law on Their Side
The city recently passed two new measures beefing up renters’ protections, and the artists facing displacement are taking full advantage of the law.
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Polish Art Community Rebuffs Ministry of Culture's Controversial Choice for a Museum Director
After ousting the previous director, the ministry plans to hire a new director without the customary open call process. The nominee, Piotr Bernatowicz, has been accused of misogyny and anti-Semitism.
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Dozens of Museums Will Be Filled With Feminist Art Ahead of US Presidential Election
The Feminist Art Coalition has coordinated with museums nationwide to display feminist art in anticipation of the 2020 election.
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Coco Fusco Casts Trump as a Heartless Tin Man
Contentious relations between the United States and China underscore the display of Fusco's "Tin Man of the Twenty-First Century" at the Anren Biennale in China's Sichuan province.
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Nazi Memorabilia Slated for Exhibition Are Mostly Modern Forgeries, Experts Say
Many of the objects, which were slated for an exhibition at the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, had multiple misspellings in German, misused or wrongly contextualized National Socialist symbols, and errors in the names of Nazi-era institutions.
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Week in Review: Keith Haring "Crack Is Wack" Mural Refurbished, Artist Withdraws Work from MoMA PS1
Also, art workers at UOVO lost their union vote by a margin of three votes, 800 musicians have signed an open letter pledging to boycott all Amazon festivals and events, and more.
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Irving Penn's 1948 Vogue Photograph of Peruvian Children Sells for Over $93,000
Plus, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security returned a marble head of the god Pan to Italy, and the most expensive Pokemon card of all time has sold.