Claude Picasso, the Spanish Artist’s Youngest Son, Has Died at Age 76
artnet news - Claude Picasso, son of Pablo Picasso and the longtime administrator of the late Spanish artist’s estate, has died at the age of 76. - read more ...
British Museum Fires Worker Accused of Stealing Gold and Gems
NY Times - The museum said that it had dismissed a worker accused of taking the items, some thousands of years old, from a storeroom. The police are investigating. - read more ...
Poland’s quest to retrieve priceless Nazi-looted art
BBC - One of those was Madonna with Child, a 16th Century painting attributed to Italian Alessandro Turchi. A Nazi official who oversaw the looting of art included the painting on a list of hundreds taken f...
Italian government bans NFT sales by museums to protect their cultural heritage
design boom - The Italian government aims to stop digital art sales by museums to protect the country’s cultural heritage from NFT frauds. This decree is a reaction to the recent 240,000€ sale of an NFT of Mic...
The Met Museum Plans to Hire a Team of Provenance Researchers Amid Increased Scrutiny Around Its Collection
artnet news - Amid increased scrutiny from political groups, criminal investigators, and media outlets, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a slate of new initiatives to review its holdings for objects...
The Louvre Closes Because of a Strike
Domus - “Due to public strikes, the Musée du Louvre is not able to be open for now. We thank you for your understanding,” Paris’ best-known museum wrote on Twitter last Monday. - read more ...
In Chinese Photography, Political Anguish Made Physical
The NY Times - In an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum, conceptual Chinese photographers of the tumultuous ’90s use the human body to document their pain. - read more ...
‘Notoriously cruel’: should we cancel Picasso? Collectors, artists, critics and curators decide
The Guardian - He was the 20th century’s most influential artist – but he was also a monstrous misogynist. On the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, we ask: is it time to mothball the master? - read more ...
Coca-Cola’s New Ad Puts Canonical Paintings by Warhol, Vermeer, Van Gogh, and Other Artists to Work… Selling Soda
art news - Some six decades after Andy Warhol offered his laconic critique of consumerist culture via his silkscreens of Coke bottle after Coke bottle—“A Coke is a Coke,” he explained—Coca-Cola is delivering a...
TWENTY EMERGING JAPANESE ARTISTS SHOW IN KYOTO
Design Boom - Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art celebrates the opening of Visionaries: Making Another Perspective at its Higashiyama Cube exhibition space. The show has been thoughtfully curated by the renowne...