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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: photos of same-sex couples are vandalized, Justin Bieber's street stencil campaign irks San Francisco, and a man wearing a panda hat steals art from a King Kong fast food restaurant.
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Ellsworth Kelly, Who Relentlessly Pushed the Boundaries of Abstraction, Dead at 92
Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most strident pioneers of abstraction and minimalism in the United States from the 1950s onward, has died at age 92.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a fire at Brazil's Museum of the Portuguese Language left one dead, the family of art dealer Daniel Wildenstein braced for a trial over $600M in tax fraud and money laundering, and archivists preserved artworks left in the streets of Paris after last month's terror attacks.
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Arts Education Is Growing in NYC Public Schools
Art classes are often the first to be sacrificed from school curriculums when budgets get cut — which makes the 2014–15 New York City Department of Education “Annual Arts in Schools Report" a welcome bit of good news for young artists in the five boroughs.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a photographer sued Jeff Koons over a painting from 1986, an art thief tagged the artist in an Instagram post of his loot, and Nicolas Cage agreed to return a stolen dinosaur skull.
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Artist Shames Taylor Swift Over Pirated Painting, but Decides to Shake It Off
Last year, New Orleans-based artist Ally Burguieres painted a picture of a smiley little fox. A few months later, Burguieres was surprised to find that pop star Taylor Swift had shared an image that looked exactly like the fox painting on Instagram.
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From a 12,000-Year-Old Turkish City to a Finnish Airport, Europe's Most At-Risk Heritage Sites
Western media stories about cultural heritage destruction have recently focused on places like Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: New Orleans City Council voted to remove four confederate monuments, a Vasudeo S. Gaitonde painting set a new auction record for an Indian artwork, and Ed Ruscha donated a collection of his prints to the Tate.
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The World's Oldest Tattoos Are on the Weathered Skin of an Alpine Ice Mummy
When hikers in the Alps stumbled upon the mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman along the Austrian–Italian border in 1991, the body was so well preserved that they feared they'd discovered the corpse of a fellow mountaineer.
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Guards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Protest Changes They Fear Could Endanger Collection
BOSTON — Last weekend, gallery guards of the Museum of Fine Arts were standing outside the institution’s main entrance on Huntington Avenue holding signs, passing out leaflets, and singing as part of their ongoing protest.
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New German Museum Focuses on Artists Persecuted by Nazis and Communists
Chances are you've never heard of Milly Steger.
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New Site Lets You Report Facebook and Other Networks When They Censor Art
Nudity in art has been around for thousands of years, but Facebook still can't take it.