Black Art Has Its Moment, Finally
The New York Times - What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museums, commercial ...
The Big Review: Leonardo at the Louvre
The Art Newspaper -The celebrations of artists of the past have rarely acquired a political dimension, as has been the case with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). One may recall that the legacy of this universal ...
How Provincetown Became a Radical Art Haven
artsy - The light and natural, coastal beauty of Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, has inspired artists for over a century. “Provincetown is a place of contrasts: a rugged, rural site with...
NY collector says he was duped into selling Brancusi sculpture
The Art Newspaper - A New York collector has filed a $200m lawsuit against a lawyer whom he claims persuaded him to sell a Brancusi sculpture for only $100,000 with the understanding that he would be amply comp...
Eight Artist Withdraw From Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Ties to Tear Gas
NY Times - Eight artists have asked the Whitney Museum of American Art to remove their works from this year’s Biennial, citing what they describe as the museum’s lack of response to calls for the resignation of...
Inside Hushed Museum Hallways, a Rumble Over Pay Grows Louder
The NY Times - The art handlers at the Guggenheim work under some unusual conditions, having to hang paintings slightly askew and tilted to account for the museum’s sloped floors and curved walls. - read more ...
Germany returning Stone Cross artifact to Namibia
DW - A Berlin museum said it is returning the Stone Cross of Cape Cross, a key cultural artifact, to Namibia. The cross, placed on Namibia's coast by Portuguese explorers in 1486, is a symbol of the country's c...
“The beheading of culture is irrevocable”
dezeen - The flow of famous individuals was endless in its useless vanity and uncertainty. Many great stars, visibly on edge for their act of great entrance, were seen shaky on their feet, babbling to their pub...
Claude Monet Sells for $110M at Sotheby’s
Hyperallergic- One of Claude Monet’s iconic haystack paintings, “Meules” (1890), sold for $110,747,000 at Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on May 14, becoming the first Impressionist to sur...
A Scholar Has Cracked the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
Artnet - An academic in the UK has unraveled the mysteries of a coded medieval manuscript that has confounded experts for more than a century. Professional codebreakers, linguistics specialists, and computer pr...