Maine trails will be getting a little artistic touch

Maine trails will be getting a little artistic touch

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,...
Protestors Glued Their Hands to Italian Masterworks

Protestors Glued Their Hands to Italian Masterworks

Climate activists keep gluing themselves to artworks, and they’re not doing it out of any disrespect, but to force open a dialogue. Many of the original artists would probably have approved. In recent weeks, climate activists for Just Stop Oil and the Italian...
Nepalese Stele Finds Its Way Home After 40 Years

Nepalese Stele Finds Its Way Home After 40 Years

At some point in the 1980s, looters swiped a stone sculpture of a Hindu diety from a small shrine in Nepal. After several years on the black market, it appeared at auction at Sotheby’s. Despite a complete lack of provenance, the art auction house sold it to a...
Crypto-Art: BEEPLE

Crypto-Art: BEEPLE

It’s so easy to acquire digital art that many people, even professionals working on corporate design, tend to think of it as ownerless. Or at least valueless. After all, if a file can be infinitely replicated, how can it be owned? But digital art has rights of...