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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an abducted alien sculpture was recovered, a recovering meth addict returned a stolen Thomas Kinkade sculpture, and wild Winnipeggers smashed a public art installation.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a new report suggested that Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections sold off Nazi loot after World War II, satellite imagery confirmed that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Nabu in Nimrud, and Kanye West released a new music video inspired by the work of artist Vincent Desiderio.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a new report suggested that Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections sold off Nazi loot after World War II, satellite imagery confirmed that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Nabu in Nimrud, and Kanye West released a new music video inspired by the work of artist Vincent Desiderio.
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The Business of Making Custom Clouds in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Somewhere in the city, there are white Mercedes Benzes, peace signs, and hearts floating up into the sky.
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Performers in ICA Miami Show Claim They Were Pressured to Penetrate Themselves with Rope
In Laura Lima's current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami — the Brazilian artist's first solo museum show in the US — a braided, blue industrial nylon rope snakes through the building's massive atrium, crawling over its white columns and beams to form an imposing, tangled w
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Mural in Abandoned Philly Building Becomes Wall Art for Future Condo
Real estate developers whitewashing or tearing down walls covered in graffiti is a familiar narrative, but it appears we may have reached such an advanced stage in the cooptation of street art that those days will soon be at an end.
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World's Oldest Operating Photo Studio Closes in India
After more than 150 years of documenting the faces and landscapes of India, a photo studio that many considered the world's oldest in operation has shuttered.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a Florida man beheaded a 13th-century statue, a man was arrested under suspicion of stealing a trailer full of blue-chip art, and a 300-pound sculpture of a bear turned up 700 miles from where it went missing.
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Australian Arts Community Campaigns Against Federal Budget Cuts
Waving signs that read, "Art changes lives," "Art bites back," and "Value artists," a crowd on Friday, June 17 swarmed outside the Sydney office of Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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Vietnamese Artists Respond to Marine Disaster Through #IChooseFish
In early April, a disturbing sight appeared on the central Vietnamese coast.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Christo's floating walkways were damaged following huge numbers of visitors, a 350-foot-tall statue of Christopher Columbus was inaugurated in Puerto Rico, and Banksy's spray-painted SWAT van headed to auction.
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Anti-Trump Art Bus Dons Disguise to Deter Attacks from Confused Trump Haters
A few weeks ago, in Las Vegas, the T.RUMP Bus — a former Donald Trump campaign bus transformed into a traveling anti-Trump art project — got egged in a Walmart parking lot. Later, in Denver, a man spray-painted an inverted pentagram on its side.