Nov 10, 2023 | Art, News & Trending, Profiles
Salvatore Del Deo and his family will be able to stay in their long-term home, after a close brush with eviction. Salvatore Del Deo, 95, has been a fixture of the Cape Cod art scene for decades, since he and his wife settled their after coming coming home from WWII....
Oct 21, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
Empty canvases or art? A Danish artist is having it out with a judge over repaying a museum for the commission of two blank paintings. The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark commissioned artist Jens Haaning two years ago to contribute two works to their...
Oct 15, 2023 | Culture, News & Trending
AI-generated work may soon need to be labeled on Amazon, after complaints from actual authors, but not yet. Amazon has introduced new regulations requiring authors who wish to sell books through its e-book program to disclose in advance if their work includes...
Oct 8, 2023 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Michelle Wibowo, of West Sussex, spent over 150 hours carefully crafting the Tower Bridge of London out of sugar. As an accomplished sugar artist with numerous accolades to her name, Michelle enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to recreate the world-renowned...
Oct 1, 2023 | News & Trending
A headless bronze statute of Marcus Aurelius has been seized by New York law enforcement from a museum in Ohio, worth $20 million. According to Turkish officials, the oversized bronze statue of a man in draped embroidered cloth and carefully figured sandals was stolen...
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,...
