Sep 28, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Bélizaire, an enslaved black teenage boy, has been restored to a painting from which he was erased, now on display at the Met. Bélizaire was a household slave of the Freys, a wealthy white family living in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the mid-1800s. In 1837,...
Sep 22, 2023 | News & Trending
AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, according to a new ruling by a federal judge, and the consequences may be broad. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit brought several months ago against the U.S. Copyright Office by one Stephen Thaler. His aim is to list...
Aug 16, 2023 | Art, Donations, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is donating $2 million to the Smithsonian American At Museum, to endow a new fellowship there. Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract impressionist painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s and painted into the early 2000s. From...
Aug 14, 2023 | Culture, News & Trending
Nero’s theater has been discovered in Rome, during excavations for a new hotel near the Vatican. A new Four Seasons hotel is being erected on religious land in Rome, and during excavations under what will be its gardens, an ancient theater was discovered. The...
Aug 11, 2023 | Art, Culture
Maine trails will be getting a little artistic touch soon, with the return of Portland Museum of Art’s “Art Outside.” The program was a success last summer. L.L.Bean, the Maine Department of Agriculture, the Conservation and Forestry Bureau of Parks and Land,...
Jul 26, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
A Chicago museum is building a new program to teach art, promoting artists of color at the same time. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is working with Romi Crawford to built an intensive semester-long art course, an alternative to traditional models of art...
Jul 22, 2023 | Art, Music, News & Trending
Haptic suits are here to give deaf and hard-of-hearing people a new way to enjoy live music. Not Impossible Labs is an organization focused on using technology in various forms to increase accessibility, tackle food insecurity, and protect human rights. “By packing...
Jul 10, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
The Real Unreal will open soon in Grapevine Mills, Texas, the latest of Meow Wolf’s surrealist immersion experiments. The Real Unreal is the home of a fictional, multigenerational family, and the various rooms and spaces of it take visitors through the stories...
Jul 3, 2023 | Art, Film, News & Trending
The intro to Secret Invasion is putting AI animation front and center in one of media’s most popular franchises. In Secret Invasion, the mood is supposed to be one of distrust and unease. Viewers met the shapeshifting Skrulls in Captain Marvel in 2019 as...
Jun 29, 2023 | Art, Auctions
A lost Rubens painting could sell for as much as $7.7 million, or even more, at Sotheby’s next month. “Saint Sebastian Tended by Two Angels,” was painted over 400 years ago. It shows the young Roman soldier Sebastian, naked and peirced by soldier’s arrows...
