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Art Movements
This week in art news: Germany's culture minister revised a controversial export bill, two stolen Warhol prints were handed over to the LAPD, and posters protesting the DSEI Arms Fair appeared across London.
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Education, Not Wealth or Class, Matters Most When It Comes to Making Art
According to findings at the University of Oxford, wealth has absolutely nothing to do with whether people pick up a paintbrush or attend a dance class.
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Gaily Forward! The US’s Only Museum of LGBTQ Art Is Doubling in Size
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art announced yesterday a major expansion of its current Soho space that will result in the near doubling of the young institution's footprint.
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A 23-Foot-Tall Air Filter Is Turning Rotterdam's Smog into Jewelry
This month, a 23-foot-tall outdoor structure that improves the air quality of the surrounding area landed in Rotterdam.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a trucker took down an Antony Gormley statue, vandals hammered a shiny public sculpture, and a Swiss dealer got in trouble for selling stolen Picassos to a Russian billionaire.
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USC Administration Shuts Down Art Students' Blog
Last month, an unofficial blog set up by graduate students at USC’s Roski School of Art was quietly taken down.
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A Petition to Stop "Irresponsible" Restoration of Chartres Cathedral
A new petition against the cathedral's restoration claims work done over the past six years has irreversibly damaged the 800-year-old building and erased centuries of the history that makes it so special.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Anish Kapoor's Versailles sculpture was vandalized for a third time, a soccer-themed issue of THE THING Quarterly tackles art critic Ken Johnson, and a new project space opened at a secret location in NYC.
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Artists Take Pens to Their Wall Labels at the Lyon Biennale
The 2015 Lyon Biennale officially opened today, but some participating artists have already expressed dissatisfaction with how their works are presented.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Warhols go missing in Los Angeles, a papier-mâché cat goes up in flames, and vandals attack a dystopian equestrian sculpture.
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US Customs Officials Confiscate Sculpture Made of Weapons
A legal battle is brewing over a sculpture by Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda after customs officials, considering it a weapon, confiscated it from its owner.
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Anish Kapoor's Versailles Sculpture Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Slurs
Anish Kapoor’s "Dirty Corner" (2011–15) sculpture in the gardens of Palace of Versailles has been vandalized again but this time with offensive words, including anti-Semitic slurs.