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Escaped Convicts Swapped Celebrity Portrait Paintings for Tools
Art may calm disturbed minds, but Richard Matt's knack for drawing didn't keep him from snapping his 72-year-old boss's neck in 1997.
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Transatlantic Trade Agreement Could Spell Disaster for Culture
We all know about NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, but TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership currently being brokered between the United States and European Union, has received some attention in Europe and remarkably little in the US.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a number of rock paintings were documented for the first time in Colombia's Chiribiquete national park, David Shrigley designed a mascot for the Partick Thistle football club, and New York's Stonewall Inn received landmark status.
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Spanish Museum Director Who Gave Hairdresser a Solo Show Under Investigation
The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, the main modern and contemporary art museum in Spain's third city, grossly inflated its attendance figures, overpaid for acquisitions, and made a number of other suspicious moves during the 10-year tenure of its former director, Consuelo Ciscar.
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Singapore's Huge National Gallery Will Open with Pompidou and Circumstance
The largest public collection of modern Southeast Asian art is opening this October, and the institution that will house it just announced a collaborative exhibition with the Centre Pompidou in 2016.
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ISIS Obliterates Two Early Islamic Tombs at Palmyra
The much-feared destruction of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra has begun.
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South Street Seaport Added to List of Most Endangered Sites in the US
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 11 Most Endangered Historic Places today, including sites across the United States threatened by development, demolition, or decay.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: vandals attack San Francisco mural of same-sex couples, a jailed banker's Basquiat gets repatriated, and an artist's gunshot performance gets his Swiss gallery in trouble.
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Manhattan's Last Natural Vista Will Be Protected
The unbroken vista of cliffs and trees on the New Jersey Palisades will be preserved after LG Electronics agreed to redesign their headquarters in a settlement with conservation groups.
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European Copyright Reform Could Restrict Photography in Public Spaces
Restrictions on photographing or filming copyrighted art, architecture, or other objects in public might get stricter in the European Union.
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MoMA Workers Vote to Approve New Contract
On Monday evening, employees of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) who are members of the United Autoworkers Local 2110 voted to approve a new three-year contract that was offered by the museum's administration on Friday.
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Death With Dignity: German Collective Reburies Deceased Migrants in Berlin
This morning in Berlin, a small crowd gathered around an open cemetery grave to pay their respects to a 60-year-old Syrian refugee.