Nov 29, 2021 | Art, Auctions, Culture, New York, News & Trending
The fall art auctions in New York City are always worth a watch, and this year they’ve blown away old records. A surge in global wealth among the already-wealthy and an urge to lock money into inflation-resistant investments like fine art have been the major...
Nov 22, 2021 | Art, Culture
Hong Kong’s newest art museum is already feeling a bit of pressure. The M+ Art Museum in Hong Kong opens this week, a 700,000 square foot temple to contemporary art. Debuting with over 8,000 works, it is one of the world’s largest and most representative...
Nov 12, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Music, News & Trending
Broken Covers is maybe one of the most unique album collections in the world – it consists of only the very worst. Not the worst music – the collector, Steve Goldman, admits he hasn’t listened to most of his finds. No, he’s collecting the worst album art...
Nov 11, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
The Pyramids of Giza have been the site of many things over their 4600 years, and now an art show is set in the sands around them. The first known international art show at the site, “Forever Is Now” is being put on by Art D’Egypte. Art D’Egypte, founded...
Oct 29, 2021 | Art, News & Trending, Organizations
The Museum of Forgeries is equal parts prank, social experiment, and commentary on the nature of art as currency. It’s the latest project by the art and design collective MSCHF (pronounced “mischief”), which purchased an original sketch by Andy Warhol at...
Oct 22, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Art Explora has announced its plans to set sail, quite literally, as a mobile art museum touring the sea in a €32 million Euro sailboat. Art Explora is a French non-profit established in 2019, with the goal of making art more accessible to all. Founded by tech...
Oct 20, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
OnlyFans is not typically the home of fine art, at least by most definitions. But with art museums running into censorship on platforms like Facebook and TikTok, they’ve found a niche to share classic works of art with a new audience. The Vienna Tourist Board...
Oct 13, 2021 | Museums, News & Trending
DNA evidence isn’t usually a part of art theft investigation. But Nils M., a Dutch man, left behind such evidence at not one, but two recent major heists. In March 2020, security footage at the Groninger Museum in Groninger showed a man breaking two glass doors...
Oct 5, 2021 | Film, Museums, News & Trending
George Lucas owns an art museum. This surprising news caused a brief ripple in the art world when he first announced over a decade ago that he planned to build one. Many thought that if it ever came to fruition, it would be simply a novelty, a vanity project for a man...
Sep 28, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Automania is the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition – an exploration of cars as art, art of cars, and the challenges of design posed by something with so many essential features. The nine cars featured in the show were lifted into the museum’s...
