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New Picasso Museum Will Boast World’s Largest Collection of His Works
The Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso Museum will feature a collection of more than 2,000 works inherited by the artist's stepdaughter.
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See the Finalists for the National Mall's First Memorial to Native American Veterans
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian shared five potential concepts for the permanent monument in Washington, DC.
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Artists and Arts Workers Call on Institutions to Reject Calling Trump’s Border Wall Art [UPDATED]
Twenty-five artists and cultural workers have signed an open letter blasting art institutions' support of a project to have the prototypes for Trump's border wall designated as a national monument.
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Satirical Artist Sues Museums That Excluded Him for $100 Million
Artist Robert Cenedella alleges that a “corporate museum cartel” engaged in an “unlawful conspiracy” to manipulate the market.
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4,400-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Dedicated to Priestess Heptet Discovered
In Heptet's newly uncovered tomb, it's all about the monkey paintings.
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Impasto Imposter Smears Paint Around Lower East Side Gallery
The gallery's director reportedly threw the culprit out after catching him or her many color-handed.
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This Artist Will Build You a Lego Model of Your House
Shari Austrian uses photographs and architectural plans to create Lego houses based on customers' homes.
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Laser Imaging Reveals 60,000 Maya Structures Under Jungle Canopy
Researchers have made major new discoveries in Central America that suggest Maya settlements were more complex and expansive than previously known.
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Boston and Philadelphia's Art Museums Gamble Loaning a Painting on the Super Bowl
The outcome of Museum Bowl 2018 will depend on whether the Philadelphia Eagles or the New England Patriots prevail on Sunday.
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French Art Dealers Join Chorus of Opposition Against Jeff Koons's Big Bouquet
The 80,000-pound sculpture is still being fabricated, but already an association representing 255 French art dealers wants it moved.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a trucker drove across the Nazca Lines, Lorde wore an excerpt from a Jenny Holzer piece to the Grammys, and the Manchester Art Gallery removed a Pre-Raphaelite painting in order to "prompt conversations" about museum display and interpretation.
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“We’re Fed Up”: Artists Break into Mexico City Museum, Demanding It Get with the Times
The group, called "Los Hemocionales," protested El Eco’s programming, claiming it hasn’t lived up to its promise as an experimental institution.