Washington Post Nixes Weekly Local Art Column
The Washington Post eliminated its weekly In the Galleries art column effective immediately, as first reported in BmoreArt and confirmed…
Category: Culture & Arts
Immersive Art Is Exploding, and Museums Have a Choice to Make
Blockbuster art exhibitions were once largely the province of museums. Crowds now flock to popular immersive exhibitions—where all you see…
Iowa Excavates Its First-Ever Mastodon Fossil
At the end of the last Ice Age, a land bridge emerged between Siberia and North America offering wandering humans…
Police report: Evidence supported charges of embezzlement, forgery for WTVP’s Lesley Matuszak
There was enough evidence to charge former WTVP president and CEO Lesley Matuszak with embezzlement of funds and forgery, had…
London Zoo Removes Banksy Mural for ‘Safekeeping,’ And More
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BOOM AND BUST. The New York…
Who Was Simonetta Vespucci, Botticelli’s Enduring Muse?
Like many famous artworks from the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) has a larger-than-life quality. The…
are we getting the balance right?
If you work in the arts, you are used to staying tight-lipped about new works in development, and artists tend…
Banksy’s London Animal Artworks, Ranked
For over a week, the mysterious street artist Banksy took to the streets of London and, under the cover of…
Amrita Sher-Gil Was a Visionary Modernist. But Export Rules Are Complicating Her Market Surge
During Amrita Sher-Gil’s brief but intense lifetime, the Hungarian-Indian artist tirelessly embraced her passion for painting, creating groundbreaking Modernist paintings…
Paramount TV Studios Shutting Down in Restructuring
Paramount Global is shutting down its namesake TV studio as the company embarks on a major round of layoffs. Paramount…
Thousands of Taylor Swift Fans Flood Vienna Museums After Fees Waived
Thousands of Taylor Swift fans flooded museums in Vienna over the weekend after multiple institutions waived entry fees after three…
A Rosa Rolanda Self-Portrait Woven With Intrigue
Rosa Rolanda, Autorretrato (Self-Portrait)Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ArkansasChosen by: Rod Bigelow, Executive Director The work is currently…
Will the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript Ever Be Solved?
Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the…
Kasper König, Exhibition Maker Who Guided Contemporary Art, Dies at 80
Kasper König, whose trailblazing work as a curator, museum director, and educator has had a profound influence on the course…
The New Style of Artist Career
What is the future of an art career? Where do you look to find relevant new culture? And as an…
Giving Black Percussionists a Boost in the Orchestral World
Participants in the 2024 ABOP-in-LA intensive Raynor Carroll has seen how the orchestral world works. The former principal percussionist of…
At MoMA, LaToya Ruby Frazier Updates American Iconography
There’s nothing more American than the idioms capturing the pride of hard work and individuality, the “pull yourself up by…
Man Under Investigation After Pouring Water on 6,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings
Spanish authorities are investigating a man for pouring water over 6,000-year-old cave paintings in an attempt to take clearer photographs…