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...
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...
Jul 26, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
A Chicago museum is building a new program to teach art, promoting artists of color at the same time. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is working with Romi Crawford to built an intensive semester-long art course, an alternative to traditional models of art...
May 29, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
A Madrid museum is about to debut with an exhibition of five hundred years worth of royal art collections. The Royal Collections Gallery, due to open in Madrid in June, will be themed all about royal tastes. It will host hundreds of masterwork paintings, tapestries,...
Apr 24, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
Landscapes by Picasso will feature large in an “unprecedented exhibition” of the artist’s work, on display in Cincinnati this summer. Picasso is well-known as a portrait artist. Though many would argue that his most famous work is too abstract to be considered...
Apr 17, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Fake Basquiat paintings sold on eBay have led to a former auctioneer pleading guilty to fraud and lying to the FBI in California. Jean Michel-Basquiat was a Puerto Rican artist who got famous as a graffiti artist and ended up selling to international galleries and...
