May 12, 2016 | Art, Auctions
If you have elderly parents or basic cable, you know the show: people bring in family items or garage sale finds to have them appraised by experts, and with any luck, their finds are worth maybe a few hundred bucks. For one Antiques Roadshow participant, the number...
May 10, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
So much for the new expansions to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The $600 million expansion project will be put on hold after museum officials announced last month that they would be changing focus from the new project to figuring out what to do...
May 6, 2016 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
A woman pushing a boulder as big as she is, made of household things and yellow twine across the Bayonne Bridge from Staten Island to New Jersey–while not technically illegal–attracts police attention. Which is how one of Mary Mattingly’s performance...
May 4, 2016 | Art, Donations, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Billionaire and philanthropist David Geffen, considered one of the world’s top art collectors, has made a generous gift of $100 million to New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The funds will go to its newest expansion project, and so far Geffen’s donation is the largest...
Apr 28, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
This week, art teacher Allison Wint told the Detroit Free Press that she believes she was fired from her job after using the word “vagina” in her lecture about the art of famed American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. While it certainly should not be problematic to refer to...
