Tag: News
Maurizio Cattelan’s Much Adored (and Maligned) Banana Artwork Is Now in the Guggenheim’s Collection Thanks to an Anonymous Donor
Next time you visit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, there might be a banana taped to the wall. That’s right: the viral sensation that was Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian—a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall and priced at $120,000—has been donated to the…
Hauser & Wirth, Thaddaeus Ropac, and Other Galleries Just Signed on to an Upstart Digital-Only Art Fair Opening in October
Most art fairs have been cancelled for 2020, but if you’re selling digital art, now might just be the right time to start one. That’s the thought behind the new Daata Fair, which will present international contemporary video and digital…
Reversing an Earlier Decision, Marlborough Is Not Closing Its New York Gallery—But It Is Trading Lawsuits With Ousted Former President Max Levai
A simmering legal battle between New York’s Marlborough Gallery and Max Levai, its ousted former president, is heating up as the sides traded lawsuits filed on September 16. Levai is suing the gallery for $10 million, alleging that the board conspired…
Michelangelo’s ‘Bandini Pietà’ Is Undergoing Its First Major Restoration in Italy—See Images of the Newly Luminous Sculpture Here
New restoration work is helping art historians understand Michelangelo’s Bandini Pietà, one of the Renaissance master’s great unfinished sculptures. A preliminary cleaning has already revealed previously unknown details, such as different tool marks marks made by the artist and remnants of…
As One of the First Major Museums to Reopen in California, the de Young Says It Is ‘Ready to Provide Succor’ to San Franciscans
The de Young Museum in San Francisco will reopen for members on September 22 and to the public on September 25, making it the first major art institution in the city, and one of the first in the state, to…
Baffling Archaeologists, This Ancient Depiction of the Cosmos Could Be 1,000 Years Younger Than Previously Thought
Archaeologists are questioning everything we think we know about the stunning ancient artifact known as the Nebra Sky Disc. Thought to be the oldest known depiction of the cosmos, the bronze and gold artifact may actually be 1,000 years younger…
MoMA Asked All Staff to Return to Work on Site. But Some Feel They’re Being Forced to Choose Between Their Job and Their Health
On August 27, three days after getting the green light from New York State, the Museum of Modern Art reopened to the public, with mandatory reservations, limited capacity, and new safety protocols in place. But museum staff has already been…
Why Economists Never Agree on Anything?
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As COVID Dampens Art-History Job Prospects, Yale University Decides Not to Accept New Graduate Students to the Department in 2021
In a sign of the struggles facing institutions of higher education and students alike, Yale University has announced that it will be accepting no new graduate students to its department of art history for fall 2021. “In order to ensure that the…
Meow Wolf’s Santa Fe Workers Want to Unionize, But the Company Says Its Immersive Art Wonderland ‘Works Best Without a Union’
Employees at Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe entertainment company that creates immersive art-type installation spaces, have formed a union. The Meow Wolf Workers Collective, as the group is called, announced plans to align with the Communications Workers of America, which represents telecommunications,…
A High-Stakes Freeport Art Heist Is a Key Plot Point in Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending New Film, ‘Tenent’
Blockbuster film director Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated science-fiction spy thriller, Tenet, finally hit US theaters on September 3, bringing audiences a high-brow tale of time-bending espionage. And somewhat surprisingly, the movie features a subplot involving blue-chip art collecting. That’s because the…
A Remarkable New Study Suggests That Stonehenge Was Built to Amplify Sound During Ancient Ruling-Class Rituals
We may never fully solve all the mysteries of Stonehenge, the monumental prehistoric circle of stones built on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. But a new study suggests that it may have been designed to amplify sound in very…
How Much Is a Signature Worth? An Epic Friendship Book Signed by Cosmio de Medici and a Holy Roman Emperor Sold for $3.1 Million
In 1648, Augustus the Younger, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, attempted to purchase Das Große Stammbuch, a “friendship book” from the collection of the recently deceased Philipp Hainhofer, a wealthy, well-traveled merchant from Augsburg, Germany. Augustus failed, and the lavishly illustrated volume did…
Hackers Have Stolen Private Information From Donor Lists to 200 Institutions, Including the Smithsonian and the UK’s National Trust
Anonymous hackers have accessed data containing the personal information of donors to several hundred cultural institutions, universities, and charities in the US and the UK, including the Smithsonian Institution and the National Trust. The data was copied in a ransomware attack on…
Today’s Google Doodle Celebrates Pioneering Artist Jackie Ormes, the First Professional Black Woman Cartoonist in the US
Google’s daily Doodle for September 1 honors Jackie Ormes, the first professional Black woman cartoonist in the US. The occasion is the 75th anniversary of her longest-running comic strip, Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger, first published on September 1, 1945. The single-panel cartoon, which…
Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Tony Cokes Video Commission to Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center
Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New…
An Oxford Museum May Have Accidentally Kept a Rembrandt Painting Languishing in Its Basement for 40 Years, New Tests Suggest
A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has found that Head of a…
Iranian-American Artist Siah Armajani, Who Reimagined Public Spaces in Cities Around the World, Has Died at 81
The Iranian-American artist Siah Armajani, best known for his community-focused, large-scale public installations that exist at the intersections of art, architecture, and technology, has died at the age of 81. The cause of death was heart failure, according to Art Asia Pacific.…
Theaster Gates, Laci Jordan, and Other Artists Have Teamed Up With Snapchat to Make Selfie Filters for the 2020 March on Washington
As crowds gather in the US capital to mark the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with renewed calls for racial equality, Snapchat has enlisted six Black artists, including Theaster Gates, to digital design face…
Melbourne’s triple whammy of misery as locked down locals suffer blackouts and water outages – Daily Mail
Melbourne under siege as a triple whammy of misery sweeps the city with widespread blackouts, 250,000 without water and panic buying after wild weather and the coronavirus combined for a perfect storm Melbourne residents already struggling through city’s crippling COVID-19…