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Many artists have suffered the indignity of having their work ripped off by one big company or other. But few have experienced the particular pain, as Brian McCarty has, of having their art illegally appropriated by ISIS.
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MIAMI BEACH — There has been a stabbing in the Nova section of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair.
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This week in art news: the Art Miami fair was flooded following torrential rain, forger Shaun Greenhalgh claimed to have created a work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, and artist Stefan Glerum designed two 60-foot stained glass facades for a new housing project in Amsterdam.
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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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Artists whose lives were affected by AIDS now have a space dedicated entirely to showcasing and honoring their works.
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The private art museum trend has become so prevalent in the US that Uncle Sam is taking notice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.