The Secret Handshake was removed not long after it went on view this week. Photo Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images After going viral online this week, a statue of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein disappeared from view on Wednesday morning. The circumstances of the removal remain uncertain. The anonymous …
The Blaffer Art Museum. Courtesy Blaffer Art Museum The Blaffer Art Museum, an institution run by the University of Houston, is experiencing a period of tumult following the appointment of Laura Augusta as director and chief curator in 2024, according to a report published Texas art magazine Glasstire on Wednesday. The report stated that the …
Texas’s Blaffer Art Museum Faces Turmoil Following Appointment of New Director Read More »
Ai Weiwei said Die Zeit‘s “vengeful actions stem from a narrow and petty form of censorship.” Photo Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Chinese artist Ai Weiwei claimed that the German newspaper Die Zeit portrayed him in “a distorted and unjust manner” in an article it published this past Thursday. His claim follows another he made earlier …
Ai Weiwei Accuses German Newspaper of ‘Vengeful Actions Stemming from Petty Censorship’ Read More »
Adrian Cheng. Photo Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images for Festival de Can One year after Adrian Cheng resigned as CEO of his family’s Hong Kong property firm, New World Development Co. (NWD), the mega-collector has announced his next venture: ALMAD Group. The details of the new business are predictably fuzzy. The announcement reads as if Cheng, who …
The Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May appears to have worn a bodycam and filmed the incident, according to federal investigators. Elias Rodriguez, the suspect, was indicted on hate …
Alleged Capital Jewish Museum Shooter Filmed His Crime with Bodycam Read More »
(From L) Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy, Director of the British Museum Nicholas Cullinan, and France’s Minister of Culture Rachida Dati sign an agreement for loaning exchange of Bayeux tapestry and Sutton Hoo treasures during a ceremony at The British Museum in London July 9, 2025, during the second day of a …
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers (1888). The work is currently owned by the Sompo Japan Museum of Art. Public domain. The heirs of German Jewish banker and art collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy have called on the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Thursday to revive their lawsuit seeking the return of a Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers painting they …
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, with artist Adam Cvijanovic, unveils a new mural painted by Cvijanovic at St. Patrickís Cathedral on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in New York. The mural, which is the largest permanent artwork commissioned for the cathedral in its 146-year history, celebrates the 1879 Apparition at Knock, Ireland, the faith …
Jackson Pollock in his studio in 1953. Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images An extinct variety of manganese blue paint is one of the many inextricable ingredients of Jackson Pollock’s 1948 masterpiece Number 1A, according to the authors of a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The nearly nine-foot-wide canvas, splattered …
Jackson Pollock Masterpiece Found to Contain Extinct Manganese Blue Read More »
Dan Lie, To let go, 2024. ©Jacopo LaForgia/Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Barbara Wien The Gold Art Prize, a series of five awards given biennially to AAPI and Asian diaspora artists, has named this year’s batch of winners, among them up-and-comers such as Dan Lie and Stella Zhong. In addition to Lie and Zhong, Morehshin …
