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The Houses of Parliament are not your advertising billboard, British government officials are reminding anyone eyeing the UNESCO World Heritage Site as a surface for light projections.
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This week in art news: Elton John loaned works from his photography collection to Tate Modern, a museum of LGBTQ history and culture sustained gunfire damage, and French police seized a painting attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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An artist's pencil drawing of a nude Donald Trump has resulted in what appears to be an indefinite ban from Facebook.
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Energy giant BP will cease its sponsorship of Tate in 2017.
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Back when the Park Avenue Armory served as the headquarters for New York State’s Seventh Regiment of the National Guard, it housed on its ground floor a massive, high-ceilinged room where retired soldiers could lounge with a brandy in one hand, a cigar in the other, and a spittoon by their sides.
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Shunga, the Japanese term for erotic art, was highly popular during the Edo Period, with artists still creating to fill demand even after the government banned the explicit illustrations in 1722.
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Last month, we reported that a pair of artists scanned the bust of Nefertiti, currently on display in the Neues Museum in Berlin, without the permission of museum officials. Now, many people are raising questions about the authenticity of their work and what that even means.
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If you're strolling through the Lower East Side, you may just run into the Koch Brothers — or specifically, a new mural that plasters their mugs on a wall on the corner of Rivington and Suffolk streets.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: two tourists were arrested for taking naked pictures at Machu Picchu, a Snapchat post led police to a stolen sculpture, and ancient Mesopotamian artifacts were found at a refugee camp in Slovenia.
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This week in art news: the international criminal court began its first war crimes trial for the destruction of cultural monuments, scientists claimed to have identified Banksy using geographic profiling, and Iggy Pop posed as a nude life model for New York Academy of Art students.
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“THROUGH OUR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS WE ALL OWN ART,” reads a new painting by British artist Bob and Roberta Smith (who is one guy).
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In the age of smartphone cameras and social media, it seems easier than ever for members of the public to freely share pictures of contemporary art.