Ministry of Culture employees look at the famous caryatid statues inside the new Acropolis Museum in Athens 10 January 2008. The Greek president visited the new museum that is expected to be ready to open its gates to the public in early 2008.AFP PHOTO/Louisa Gouliamaki (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP …
Greece Introduces New Law to Combat Art Forgery and Vandalism Read More »
Bored Ape #8398 OpenSea A long-running legal saga between Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club, and artist Ryder Ripps and his business partner Jeremy Cahen, has finally ended, with the parties reaching a settlement on Tuesday. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, the parties disclosed that they agreed to …
Madeleine Grynsztejn. MCA Chicago. At year’s end, Madeleine Grynsztejn will leave her post after 18 years as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which bills itself as one of the world’s largest museums devoted to the art of today. The museum, which launched in 1967 with a Fluxus happening by John Cage, Dick …
The National Assembly in Paris. Photo by Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas via AFP In what was described as “a decisive step in the long road to the restitution of property looted in Africa during the colonial era,” on Wednesday the French National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved a proposed bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate’s …
Proposed Restitution Law in France Advances in National Assembly Read More »
The Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion was closed in 2022 by its artists and curator. Photo Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on Friday that has imposed sanctions on five Russian cultural figures who are involved with organizing the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The news was first …
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks at a press conference in September. Getty Images When the Basque regional government made a formal request last week to Spain‘s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso‘s Guernica (1937), the region’s head of government, Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, said he expected more robust discussion on …
Melissa Chiu. Photo Shannon Finney/Getty Images Melissa Chiu will depart her post as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York, making her the latest person to depart a Smithsonian-run museum as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. She will report to Solomon R. …
People looking at phones, looking at Beeple’s humanoid pig-dogs at Art Basel Miami Beach. Daniel Cassady You couldn’t possibly have thought that you’d seen the last of Beeple‘s grotesque robot dogs? Last appearing in Art Basel Miami Beach‘s new Zero10 digital art section in December, Regular Animals is now on the loose in San Francisco. …
Beeple’s Elon Musk–Robot Dog Is Roaming the Streets of San Francisco in Viral Stunt Read More »
A visitor walks past an artwork by German artist Thomas Zipp at the 2021 edition of Arco Madrid. Photo Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images Thomas Zipp, the German punk musician, painter, and installation artist with a relentlessly critical eye, has died. His gallery, Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, announced the news on social media, writing that …
Thomas Zipp, Visionary Installation Artist With a Punk Sensibility, Has Died Read More »
Josh T. Franco, the recently appointed director of USLAF, is plotting the organization’s future. Courtesy USLAF A decade ago, Latinx art within the US didn’t have as much visibility as it has now. One of the key organizations advocating for this increased prominence in mainstream institutions is the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), founded in …
With a New Director, US Latinx Art Forum Plots Its Future Read More »
