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This Disputed Caravaggio Is a Centuries-Long Mystery and Was Sold for an Undisclosed Price
Plus, a painting by Toyin Ojih Odutola achieved the highest-ever price for work by a Nigerian artist.
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New Museum Union Rallies Against Stalled Contract Negotiations During Summer Exhibition Openings
The workers chanted and handed out leaflets on Tuesday night as its summer exhibitions opened to visitors, amassing a crowd of nearly 300 supporters.
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Detroit Street Artist Arrested While Painting Mural Commissioned by City
“They treated me like a felon even though I was commissioned by the city to do this,” said Sheefy McFly, adding that he felt "racially profiled and bullied."
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3,800 Volunteers Have Joined an Artist to Challenge Trump’s Idea of a “Big, Beautiful Wall” on the US–Mexico Border
With the help of thousands of volunteers, Enrique Chiu is creating a large-scale mural on Mexico's side of the border to spread a message of peace.
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A San Francisco Art Nonprofit Is Trying to Save Its Building From Developers
The Lab, a veteran experimental art space, is raising money to buy the historical Redstone Labor Temple in the city's trendy Mission District before it's turned into corporate offices.
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Week in Review: Sotheby's Sells for $3.7 Billion, an Art Philanthropist Couple Helped Fund the Anti-Vax Movement
Also, leading Jewish studies scholars are defending the former director of the Berlin Museum after his resignation, the Association of Art Museum Directors passed a resolution calling on art museums to pay their interns, and more.
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The Gun that May Have Killed Vincent van Gogh Sold for Over $180,000
Plus, Sotheby's has gone private to the tune of $3.7 billion, LA's Broad Museum has acquired a work by David Hammons, and the world's largest of visual and concrete poetry has moved.
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The Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Killed Is Rebuilt as a Memorial in Chicago
Samaria Rice has partnered with artist Theaster Gates to rebuild the gazebo as a temporary meeting place for those affected by racially motivated killings and police brutality.
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Jewish Studies Scholars Support Resigned Director of Berlin's Jewish Museum with Two Public Letters
Leading Jewish studies scholars came out in defense of Peter Schäfer, himself a prominent Talmud Scholar, and called accusations of anti-Semitism against him "false" and "outrageous."
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This New York Couple Has Donated Millions to Museums — And the Anti-Vax Movement
Bernard and Lisa Selz have contributed more than $3 million in recent years to the anti-vax movement. They've also given millions to institutions like the Frick Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Art Museum, and the World Monuments Fund.
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Week in Review: Artists Protest BP, Hong Kong Institutions Strike to Oppose Extradition Bill
Also, a group of activists occupied El Museo del Barrio during its 50th-anniversary celebration, installations about child immigrant detentions appeared across NYC, and more.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music Employees Vote in Favor of Union
BAM administrative workers and cinema staff voted in favor of forming BAM’s seventh union by an 82% margin. "It's heartening to see workers coming together and standing up for themselves," one employee tells Hyperallergic.