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This week in art news: the ancient city of Petra was added to Google Street View, Scotland Yard opened its "Black Museum" of historic crime artifacts to the public, and the US government is sued over lost footage of JFK's assassination.
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During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War.
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With the Rubin Museum of Art's recent acquisition of a mid-18th-century manuscript known as White Beryl, the Manhattan museum now holds the world's leading collection of Tibetan astrological and cosmological paintings.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a pub's neighbor is peeved about its penis mural, a flying cow sculpture gets grounded in India, and unscrupulous Lincolnalia collectors nab an Abe statue.
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This week in art news: Over 4,500 objects from the British Museum can now be viewed online, MoMA returns a Kirchner stolen from a Jewish collector by the Nazis, and Sotheby's prepares for a sale of Star Wars memorabilia.
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This week, France announced two plans to fight back against ISIS’s cultural destruction. French culture minister Fleur Pellerin unveiled a $6 million fund that will help France’s cultural institutions recover from the recent attack.
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The smiling poop emoji is just five years old, but it has already infiltrated American culture, inspiring everything from halloween costumes to nail decals.
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Those of you going down to Miami for the art fairs in two weeks should brace yourselves for a hellish traffic nightmare
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South Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) will very soon have a new director, but the local art community is protesting the top candidate for the position, Bartomeu Marí.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: raccoons go on rogue art crawl, artists' work is trapped after a gallery's eviction, and a Star Wars print is swiped by Canadians who've gone over to the dark side.
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"Gentrification in progress," read the tape, its black type printed on yellow strips as all good warnings are.
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More than 100 activists and artists affiliated with community groups from throughout the city gathered at the Brooklyn Museum this morning to protest its hosting of the 2015 Brooklyn Real Estate Summit.