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Hotel Replaces Porn-on-Demand with Art-on-Demand
The owner of a hotel chain in Scandinavia has decided to ditch the pornography channels in all of his properties, and at one, he's replacing the porn with contemporary art.
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Beastie Boys Mom Donates Major Renaissance Painting to Massachusetts Museum
This month, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts announced it has acquired Paolo Veronese’s "Venus Disarming Cupid" (circa 1560), which is believed to be one of the few works by the famed Renaissance master still in private hands.
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Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Charged with Murder, Claims Innocence
Prominent South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa has been accused of murdering a woman in a suburb of Cape Town and will go on trial starting on Monday. He denies the charge.
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Listen to the Eerie Tune of a Toy Pig That Last Played as the Titanic Sank
Just over a hundred years since it serenaded Titanic survivors huddled in a lifeboat on the icy seas, a little toy pig's music has been resurrected.
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Art Movements
Artifact looting and ancient church destruction in Egypt, the Christie's appraisal of DIA, Old Masters saved in Berlin, 5 Pointz death knell, and more.
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An Art CSA Grows in Brooklyn
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) has long been a fixture of many of the more enlightened communities in the United States. By selling "shares" of a season's crop ahead of time, the practice generates a predictable income and demand for agricultural products, allowing many smaller-scale farmers
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Stolen Shot "Wins" Samsung Photo Contest
Samsung's #LiveInTheMoment Instagram photo contest has been mired in controversy since a winning photograph was discovered to be the image of another photographer that was altered by flipping, cropping, and adding a filter.
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Archeologists Uncover 5,000-Year-Old Board Game Pieces
Some things are as old as civilization as we know it: agriculture, government, written language, a reverence for cats, and gaming. As further proof of that last one, Turkish archeologists have unearthed what they think are the oldest board game tokens ever found.
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MoMA Turns Their Private Garden into a Public Park for the Mornings
This September 9, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is starting new free early hours in its Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The move is in effect year-round to turn this private space into a public space each morning.
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Shakespeare Not Quite the Fount of Language He Was Previously Held to Be
As old texts are gradually digitized, the number of words whose lineage was previously traceable only to Shakespeare's pen has sharply decreased.
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Damien Hirst's New Studio Complex Is Called "Science"
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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Detroit Institute of Arts Does Not Object to City Bankruptcy Relief
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.