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BP Will Cease Controversial Tate Sponsorship
Energy giant BP will cease its sponsorship of Tate in 2017.
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A Glittering Restoration of the Park Avenue Armory’s Veterans Room, with a Modern Touch
Back when the Park Avenue Armory served as the headquarters for New York State’s Seventh Regiment of the National Guard, it housed on its ground floor a massive, high-ceilinged room where retired soldiers could lounge with a brandy in one hand, a cigar in the other, and a spittoon by their sides.
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Rare Shunga Scroll of Gay Erotic Scenes Goes to Auction
Shunga, the Japanese term for erotic art, was highly popular during the Edo Period, with artists still creating to fill demand even after the government banned the explicit illustrations in 1722.
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Could the Nefertiti Scan Be a Hoax — and Does that Matter?
Last month, we reported that a pair of artists scanned the bust of Nefertiti, currently on display in the Neues Museum in Berlin, without the permission of museum officials. Now, many people are raising questions about the authenticity of their work and what that even means.
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The Koch Brothers Loom Large in Lower East Side Mural
If you're strolling through the Lower East Side, you may just run into the Koch Brothers — or specifically, a new mural that plasters their mugs on a wall on the corner of Rivington and Suffolk streets.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: two tourists were arrested for taking naked pictures at Machu Picchu, a Snapchat post led police to a stolen sculpture, and ancient Mesopotamian artifacts were found at a refugee camp in Slovenia.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the international criminal court began its first war crimes trial for the destruction of cultural monuments, scientists claimed to have identified Banksy using geographic profiling, and Iggy Pop posed as a nude life model for New York Academy of Art students.
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A New Website Lets You Browse Images of All Publicly Owned Art in the UK
“THROUGH OUR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS WE ALL OWN ART,” reads a new painting by British artist Bob and Roberta Smith (who is one guy).
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Rauschenberg Foundation Joins 21st Century, Embraces Fair Use
In the age of smartphone cameras and social media, it seems easier than ever for members of the public to freely share pictures of contemporary art.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: 14 members of a British museum-robbing ring were convicted, Christie's sued collector Jose Mugrabi for failing to pay for a $37 million Basquiat he won at auction, and the NYPD seized a crate labeled "art" only to find it full of weed.
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A 5,000-Year-Old Linen Dress Is the World's Oldest Woven Garment
An over-5,000-year-old linen dress was recently confirmed as the world's oldest woven garment.
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Library of Congress Acquires Four Decades of Courtroom Art, Spanning Manson to Madoff
With some exceptions, courtrooms remain one of the few places where photography is forbidden, so sketching is a vital way of capturing the moods, emotions, and actions of what's going on.