Art and Society

artnet news - Two of France’s biggest cultural institutions, the Palace of Versailles and Louvre Museum, were evacuated on Saturday, October 14, after receiving bomb threats. - read more   ...

DW - Pulitzer Prize-winning Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov knows global attention is shifting to Israel, but his film on Russian atrocities remains essential. - read more ...

Hyperallergic - Palestinian artist Heba Zagout was killed with her two young children in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on Friday, October 13, her sister confirmed on Facebook. The 39-year-old artist’s death was ...

NY Post - A $5,000 painting was stolen from a Manhattan gallery in a smash-and-grab robbery early Monday, according to cops and sources.- read more ...

Hyperallergic - Seven Egon Schiele works that belonged to Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum were handed back to his heirs. - read more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...