Jul 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending, Organizations
The “Women Who Dared” collection, assembled by Sandi Nicholson, is the largest private collection of women-created art, and you can see parts of it in any New York area hospital. Nicholson spent over thirty years traveling the world to collect art by women. Her...
Jul 9, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
The Firelei Báez art installation in the Watershed is bringing the Caribbean to Boston. In 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston opened the Watershed, a space for large-scale installation art set into the industrial maritime setting of the East Boston...
Jul 2, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
A bookmark drawn by the hand of Vincent Van Gogh is on display now, after over 230 years tucked away – where else – in a book. In June 1883, Vincent Van Gogh lent a novel to his friend, the Dutch artist Anthon van Rappard. The novel, Histoire d’un Paysan...
Jun 25, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Two masterwork paintings recovered almost a decade after a 2012 art heist, according to Greek police. In January 2012, “Woman’s Head” by Pablo Picasso and “Mill” by Piet Mondrian were stolen in a lightning quick raid on the National Gallery of Greece, in Athens....
Jun 21, 2021 | Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
Santa Monica, California, is going rainbow for June. To celebrate Pride Month, the tourist core of Santa Monica is painting itself all the colors of the rainbow with the “Rainbow Road Art Walk.” Santa Monica Pier, downtown including the Third Street Promenade, and...
Jun 11, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
It’s finally happening – The Obama portraits are going on tour. And they’re starting at the Art Institute of Chicago. Unveiled in 2018, the official state portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have been a large draw in the National Portrait Gallery in...
Jun 4, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending, Profiles
An art feud worth over $1 billion is currently being fought in courts around the globe. Yves Bouvier is a Swiss art dealer who buys and sells art for staggering amounts of money. Dmitry Rybolovlev is a Russian billionaire who made his fortune selling fertilizer to...
May 28, 2021 | Art, News & Trending
Chadwick Boseman, the Oscar-nominated Black actor who passed away in 2020, is to be honored by his alma mater, Howard University. The historically Black university will be renaming its College of Fine Arts for him. When Boseman was a student at Howard, studying...
May 21, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
In Giverny, France is a garden that much of the world would recognize. The water lilies of the Japanese-inspired lake and gardens inspired the man who lived there – none other than the impressionist master Claude Monet. For forty-three years from 1883 to 1926, the...
May 14, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Music, News & Trending, Profiles
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan was the voice of anti-war protest and civil rights. In the 70s, he traveled through country music into contemporary gospel, an icon of the born-again Christian. Since the 1980s, he’s been touring on the Never Ending Tour with an...
