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On this week's art crime blotter: an artist sued two dealers for plotting to split up and sell off his installation, the Pompidou's former managing director racked up €40,000 in taxi fees, and a group of art students accused their professor of being a sleazeball.
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This week in art news: Florentijn Hofman accused Brazilian protesters of plagiarizing his giant duck sculpture, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was criticized for a planned display devoted to Bill Cosby, and the Denver Art Museum returned a stolen sandstone sculpture to C
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Swedish archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old necropolis in Egypt that dates to the New Kingdom and holds dozens of tombs containing remnants of ancient artifacts.
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A new study confirms your suspicions that in the art world, delusional self-regard pays off: researchers found that work by narcissistic artists is likely to sell for more money at auction than work by their humbler counterparts.
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The New York Public Library has launched an incredibly handy new tool for anyone conducting photography-related research or simply interested in exploring the history of the medium through the lives of its practitioners.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a UFO museum's flying saucer sculpture was stolen and smashed, a Japanese dealer was arrested trying to unload a $1.1 million antiquity, and Cambridge University tried to cover up the theft of a model skull.
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Yesterday marked the beginning of Museum Week, an annual social media campaign that gives museums around the world the opportunity to engage with the public in a number of ways.
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A sliver of land lying on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint border, long a neighborhood mystery home to a lone and enigmatic RV, now hosts a tiny independent radio station broadcasting music to listeners around the world.
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This week in art news: the Syrian army moved closer to retaking the ancient city of Palmyra, Cuban artists and dissidents were detained in anticipation of President Obama's visit, and Moscow's Shukhov Tower was added to a watch list of at-risk cultural heritage sites.
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Artist Alexis Leiva Machado, who works under the pseudonym Kcho, has partnered with Google to bring high-speed wifi to the Cuban public at rates nearly 70 times faster than services currently available — and at no cost to users.
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From letters written by female impersonators to illustrated guides to cross-dressing, material chronicling the experiences of transgender people is currently being digitized and catalogued online.
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Tens of thousands of magic lantern slides, for decades hidden in the collections of museums and archives across Europe, are currently being digitized and released into the public domain.