The New Documentary ‘Copyright Infringement’ Unpacks the Art and Action Behind Artist Cj Hendry’s Beloved Scavenger Hunt
What would you do to get your hands on a free, limited-edition Cj Hendry t-shirt? If you are one of…
After 15 Years on Governors Island, Artist-Run Fair Portal Was Rejected From the Site This Year, as Demand for Exhibition Space Grows
Portal: Governors Island, formerly known as the Governors Island Art Fair, has been booted from its namesake location off the…
After Five Years of Renovations—and Months of Labor Negotiations With Staff—New York’s Hispanic Society Finally Reopens
For over five-and-a-half years, the galleries at New York’s Hispanic Society Museum and Library have been closed for renovations, its…
You Can Get Your Tarot Cards Read by an Art Witch Channeling the Ghost of Hilma af Klint at the Armory Show
Visitors to New York’s Armory Show, which opened to VIPs today, can catch a glimpse of what the future may…
Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen Just Opened a New Branch of His Globe-Spanning Cultural Institute in a Historic Venice Palazzo
Los Angeles’s Berggruen Institute, founded by Paris-born billionaire art collector Nicolas Berggruen, inaugurated its new European headquarters today in Venice’s Casa dei…
One of Uruguay’s Most Prominent Artists Is Funding and Building the Country’s First Contemporary Art Museum
Pablo Atchugarry, one of Uruguay’s leading contemporary artists, is planning to open the nation’s first contemporary art museum in the resort…
7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’
On March 5, 2014—less than a week after its founding—Artnet News published a short item based on a New York…
Organizers of an Unauthorized Banksy Show Will Issue Refunds After Visitors Complain There Aren’t Enough Real Banksys in It
An unauthorized Banksy exhibition in Seoul has come under fire from visitors disappointed that the vast majority of the works…
Three Amoako Boafo Paintings Were Just Launched Into Space Aboard Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Ship
Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo is headed for the stars. And no, we’re not talking about his unbelievable market. This morning,…
Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again
On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest…
Judith Scott Defied Stereotypes About Down Syndrome and Became a Famous Sculptor. A Poignant New Children’s Book Tells Her Story
When Joyce Scott was seven years old, her parents sent her twin sister Judith Scott, who had Down Syndrome, to…
Sick of Immersive Van Gogh Already? Three Separate Companies Are Launching Competing Immersive Monet Experiences
Get ready for the Claude Monet experience. Or rather, the Claude Monet experiences. Not one, not two, but three separate…
Two Paintings by Ireland’s Foremost Impressionist, Found Buried in an Ohio Storage Unit, Could Fetch $60,000 at Auction
An Ohio family got more than they bargained for when they consigned their parents’ estate to auction. In the back…
Archaeologists in England Unearthed a Long-Lost Monastery Presided Over by a Powerful Anglo-Saxon Queen
Archaeologists from the U.K.’s University of Reading have discovered the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery that was ruled by a…