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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a serial brain tissue thief strikes a museum, a suicidal man attacks a Picasso-inspired exhibition, and an art dealer's grandson sues a gallery over a $25 million Modigliani.
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Online Archive Commemorates Artists Affected by or Lost to AIDS
Artists whose lives were affected by AIDS now have a space dedicated entirely to showcasing and honoring their works.
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The Senate Finance Committee Is Scrutinizing Art Collectors’ Private Museums
The private art museum trend has become so prevalent in the US that Uncle Sam is taking notice.
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Artist Activists Decry Global Warming During Paris Climate Conference
Since no world summit would be complete without artistic demonstrations, activists around the globe have created art protesting climate change and corporate sponsorship of COP21, from live tattooing performances to parody advertisements installed on Paris streets.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the ancient city of Petra was added to Google Street View, Scotland Yard opened its "Black Museum" of historic crime artifacts to the public, and the US government is sued over lost footage of JFK's assassination.
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How a Rare Judas Painting Survived the 16th-Century English Reformation
During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War.
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New Acquisition Makes the Rubin Museum World Leader in Tibetan Astrological Art
With the Rubin Museum of Art's recent acquisition of a mid-18th-century manuscript known as White Beryl, the Manhattan museum now holds the world's leading collection of Tibetan astrological and cosmological paintings.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a pub's neighbor is peeved about its penis mural, a flying cow sculpture gets grounded in India, and unscrupulous Lincolnalia collectors nab an Abe statue.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Over 4,500 objects from the British Museum can now be viewed online, MoMA returns a Kirchner stolen from a Jewish collector by the Nazis, and Sotheby's prepares for a sale of Star Wars memorabilia.
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In Wake of Terrorist Attacks, France Looks to Fight ISIS with Cultural Preservation
This week, France announced two plans to fight back against ISIS’s cultural destruction. French culture minister Fleur Pellerin unveiled a $6 million fund that will help France’s cultural institutions recover from the recent attack.
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A Poop Art Show Aims to Wipe Out the Global Sanitation Crisis
The smiling poop emoji is just five years old, but it has already infiltrated American culture, inspiring everything from halloween costumes to nail decals.
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Bridge Down! Prepare for Hellish Traffic During the Miami Art Fairs
Those of you going down to Miami for the art fairs in two weeks should brace yourselves for a hellish traffic nightmare