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While his toxic, formaldehyde-based work may not be the most environmentally friendly art production in the world, Damien Hirst's new personal studio and gallery in Stroud, England — where his team will be plunging ever more creatures into preservatives — is being designed by a small, eco–conscious
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In a statement posted to their website late yesterday, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has affirmed its support of its host city's Chapter 9 bankruptcy proceeding.
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Conservators have discovered an entire wall painting done by five Pre-Raphaelite artists in a house in a London suburb. The building, known as the Red House, was the home of Arts and Crafts movement founder William Morris between 1860 and 1865; sometime during those years, Morris completed the paint
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In a show of scholarly inquiry turned jingoistic battleground, the Egyptian Archaeologists' Syndicate has demanded that foreign researchers and foreign institutions be expelled from the country. According to a report published earlier today in the country's English-language Ahram Online, Syndicate C
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Museum looting in Egypt, Norman Foster leaves Moscow project, Ed Ruscha joins SFMOMA board, Mike Kelley retrospective, and more.
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A German court ruled yesterday that Berlin and Hamburg-based conceptual and performance artist Jonathan Meese had not violated the country's notoriously strict anti-hate laws in his performances of the Nazi salute.
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According to documents released this morning, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the New York Office of the FBI have charged a former studio assistant to Jasper Johns with the theft of 22 "unauthorized" Johns works. The assistant, 51-year-old James Meyer of
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Petroglyphs in western Nevada have been identified as the oldest of their kind in North America. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder conducted a study that dates the rock carvings to between 10,500 and 14,800 years ago.
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There are few coins as fabled at the infamous 1933 Double Eagle. It is a fascinating story of government and gold, but with a twist.
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Yesterday, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced that they will be "making roughly 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose."
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Sculptor Ruth Asawa passes away, graffiti gentrification in London, a tourist breaks of a Florence statue's finger, and more...
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The only surviving copy of Orson Welles' 1930 silent film Too Much Johnson was long thought totally lost after a fire devastated Welles' home outside Madrid in 1970, yet yesterday the George Eastman House not only announced it had been recovered, but that a screening would be held this October.