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Students Invent Way to Light-Paint in 3D
Two-dimensional light painting is so passé.
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An Eclectic Lineup at This Year’s Governors Island Art Fair
This is an artistically rich summer for Governors Island.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: rediscovered sketches by van Gogh's doctor suggest that the artist cut off his entire ear, David Bowie’s art collection headed to auction, and Shepard Fairey created a stylized version of Jonathan Bachman's viral Black Lives Matter photograph.
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Liberal Artists Don't Need Orgasms, and Other Findings from OkCupid
Could your Neil Gaiman book collection reveal something about both your political leanings and your willingness to squeal like a dolphin during sex if your partner asked?
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Gavel Gavel, Your Art's a Success: David Bowie’s Collection Heads to Auction
We've heard his music and seen his own artworks, but the personal art collection of David Bowie has remained largely hidden from the public eye.
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Basquiat's Former Home and Studio Gets a Permanent Plaque
Yesterday, a permanent plaque was unveiled outside the former home and studio of Jean-Michel Basquiat at 57 Great Jones Street in Manhattan.
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Artists and Authors Call on Israel to Release Palestinian Poet
Over 150 literary figures are calling for the release of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, who since last year has faced charges in Israel for sharing her poetry on Facebook and on YouTube.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Banksy stencil rats were destroyed in Melbourne, an art dealer accused his former partners of selling him $30 million worth of fakes, and a philanthropist sued to get the millions she'd donated to a museum back.
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Pokémon Go Users Flock to Museums, Passing Picasso in Search of Pikachu
If you've visited a museum in the last few days and spotted larger-than-average groups of people wandering around and looking a tad lost, their eyes glued to their phones, you were likely witnessing the phenomenon of Pokémon Go.
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British MPs Propose Bill to Return the Elgin Marbles to Greece
With the 200th anniversary this week of the July 11, 1816 purchase through an Act of Parliament of the Parthenon Marbles for the British Museum, members of parliament are introducing a bill that would repatriate the ancient artifacts.
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Artists Start to Build Trump’s Border Wall, Using Anti-Trump Art
The beginnings of a wall with Trump's name on it have emerged along the US-Mexico border, but it is not likely what the presumptive Republican nominee has in mind.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Sydney University art students clashed with police during protests, a Manhattan intersection was temporarily renamed in honor of the late street style photographer Bill Cunningham, and Maurizio Cattelan unveiled his "Spaghetti Car."