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A 60-foot-long mural by street artist Kenny Scharf has been stolen from the East River Esplanade in Harlem for the second time — but at least this time the heist was captured on camera.
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An Acoma shield that was removed from a May auction in Paris that included human remains and indigenous sacred objects has yet to be returned.
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Sometime early next year, a monumental sculpture of the Cuban writer and national hero José Martí is expected to rise on Havana's busy Paseo del Prado.
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Six days before the start of the fall semester at Pacific Northwest College of Art, a group of Master's candidates and professors received an email from the dean of students informing them that their program was suspended and they would not be teaching or studying as planned.
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This week in art news: Italy lobbied to have Venice excluded from UNESCO's list of endangered heritage sites, a makeup artist and model sued Richard Prince for copyright infringement, and the Portland Art Museum revealed plans to repatriate an 18th-century painting to Korea.
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The U.S. Latina/o Art Forum has just put out a call to action for all its members, urging them to “increase the representation of Latinx art at the 2017 Annual [College Art Association] Conference by submitting a proposal to present a paper.”
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On this week’s art crime blotter: the makers of a Millennium Falcon–shaped shed struck back, a thief attempted to hold a sculpture ransom, and a painting of a nude man with a teapot set local prudes boiling.
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Although once charged with the incredibly unglamorous task of eliminating sewage from London, the Crossness Pumping Station boasts a stunningly ornate interior.
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This week in art news: a former Malian rebel leader pleaded guilty to cultural destruction at the International Criminal Court, Italy will give all teenage residents €500 to spend on culture for their 18th birthdays, and Banksy's "Spy Booth" mural was removed and possibly destroyed.
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One of the most bizarre art authentication cases in recent memory came to a close yesterday with a federal judge’s ruling that Peter Doig did not paint a desert scene signed “Pete Doige 76.”
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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Long Island City yesterday to protest the almost complete absence of unionized workers at the 5Pointz redevelopment site — despite a promise by the project’s developer that he would only employ union workers for the job.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a cycling-themed cow statue goes missing, one art dealer sues another over a Jeff Koons sculpture, and a former guard takes the Metropolitan Museum to court.