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Holy Toledo! Big Red Art Ball Makes a Roll for It
On Wednesday night, a giant, 250-lb red ball tumbled down a road in Ohio, spurring locals to break the age-old command of parents to not chase rogue balls in the streets.
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Banksy’s New Apocalyptic Theme Park Is Designed to Disappoint
Today, it was officially announced that British artist Banksy has constructed a dystopian riff on Disneyland in a derelict seaside resort in Weston-super-Mare, England.
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FBI Offers Reward for Two Stolen N.C. Wyeth Paintings
Seen any sentimental oil paintings of medieval knights hanging around lately?
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Cat Running for Canadian Parliament on Anti-Graffiti Platform
The new independent parliamentary candidate for Montreal's tony, predominantly anglophone NDG–Westmount district is a a four-year-old cat named Humbert.
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ISIS Murders Former Chief of Antiquities in Palmyra
Khaled al-Asaad, who served as the director general of the Palmyra Directorate of Antiquities and Museums from 1963 to 2003, was beheaded Tuesday by ISIS fighters in the ancient city.
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Artist Shocked When Her Art, Lost in Transit, Turns Up at Auction
On August 4, 2014, Cal Lane, a Canadian artist based in New York, shipped three boxes each containing three of her large Veiled Hood Stain prints to her gallery in Montreal, Art Mûr.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: sculptures by "the Soviet Henry Moore" smashed in Moscow, a Roman altar stolen from a British Museum, and a Chicago museum's Ronald McDonald statue decapitated.
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Looking at the Data Behind Free Museum Admission
The question of whether or not art museums should be free tends to get people riled up.
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Peekaboo, the NYPD Is Watching You!
The New York Police Department (NYPD) wants to regain the trust of the New Yorkers it alienated with recent controversies like “Stop-and-Frisk” and the killing of Eric Garner.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the FBI revealed that the suspects in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist are dead, the Knoedler Gallery settled three of the 10 lawsuits stemming from its forgery fiasco, and Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids will become a television series.
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Three Years After Sandy, South Street Seaport Gets $10.4 Million from FEMA
This week the South Street Seaport got an essential boost.
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Historic Chapel in Mexico Mysteriously Torn Down
Did a small town in Mexico bulldoze a historically protected chapel at the heart of its community last month?