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Have Hokusai, Will Travel: Japan's New Passports Feature Ukiyo-E Master's Prints
Japanese citizens are set to receive new passports, and they will salute Katsushika Hokusai, the renowned ukiyo-e printmaker and painter.
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Virginia Arts Commissioners Threaten to Defund Museum Over "Anti-Christian" Paintings
Members of a Virginia arts commission are calling a pair of Mark Ryden paintings blasphemous and threatening to slash funding for the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art for including them in a forthcoming show.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: bronze statues and coins were salvaged from a Late Roman shipwreck, artist Pyotr Pavlensky was convicted of vandalism over a pro-Ukraine performance, and the Brooklyn Museum offered employee buyouts to help close its $3 million budget deficit.
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Brazilian Artists Protest Interim President's Dissolution of Ministry of Culture
Vice President Michel Temer has only just assumed the interim presidency of Brazil, and already he's implementing contentious policies.
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Greenpeace Activists Climb the British Museum to Protest BP Sponsorship
Today, the British Museum received a guerrilla re-branding from activists urging it to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, an agreement now in talks for possible renewal next year.
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Protesters Disrupt a BP-Sponsored Exhibition at the British Museum
Art activist group BP or not BP? yesterday staged a double intervention at the British Museum to protest BP's sponsorship of Sunken cities, a new exhibition showcasing artifacts from two ancient, submerged Egyptian ports.
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Restored Studio Opens for Public Tours
When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney set up her sculpture studio in Greenwich Village's MacDougal Alley, one 1907 newspaper headline blared: "Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley."
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a psychedelic zebra sculpture was stolen and recovered, an arts organization shuttered following an embezzlement fiasco and lye attack, and vandals smashed a David Bowie painting.
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Smithsonian Doubles Its Bill Traylor Holdings Ahead of 2018 Retrospective
Bill Traylor's drawings and paintings were not recognized by the art world until decades after his death in 1949.
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W.A.G.E. Calls for New Museum to Fully Compensate Artists
Artist advocacy group Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is calling for the New Museum to receive certification to ensure all its artists earn fair pay as the building plans for expansion, funded by an ongoing $80 million capital campaign.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Ukrainian border guards recovered 17 paintings stolen from the Castelvecchio Museum, Greece renewed its bid to have the Parthenon Marbles repatriated, and a neurologist claimed to have diagnosed the condition of the woman in Andrew Wyeth's iconic work "Christina's World."
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A 19th-Century Birdcage Automaton Comes to Life, and Auction
Shimmery, singing birds flit from perch to perch and a butterfly flaps its hand-painted, iridescent wings above an animated fountain on a three-tune musical automaton birdcage clock by Bautte & Moynier.