Jan 16, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
The Detroit Institute of Arts is in a legal fight with the alleged owner of a van Gogh painting on display there. The painting, titled “The Novel Reader” or “The Reading Lady,” depending on which art history book you read, is not one of Vincent van Gogh’s better...
Dec 5, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
A secret shipment of avant-garde art has been removed from war-torn Ukraine, and is on display in a Spanish museum. Two trucks pulled up to the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv in the early hours of a November morning, only hours before the Russians renewed...
Nov 14, 2022 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Anonymous donors are helping to make 21 different arts museums in San Francisco free for a weekend. The two-day event will take place over the weekend of December 3 and 4. The San Francisco Free Museum Weekend was created in collaboration by the Asian Art Museum, Fine...
Sep 5, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
The Guelph Treasure art dispute between a German museum and the heirs of Jewish art dealers has been dismissed by a U.S. court for a second time, over jurisdictional issues. The Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure, is a 200 million euro hoard of silver and gold church...
Aug 1, 2022 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, Music, News & Trending
Raphael tapestries are being shown for the first time in the United States, at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Raffaello Sanzio, better known to the world as Raphael, was one of the trinity of masters of the High Renaissance. The rivalry, real or exaggerated,...
Jul 25, 2022 | Art, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Looted artifacts are on their way back to Italy, as New York investigators hand over 142 objects they’ve seized in the past year. A third of the stolen assortment came from the collection of Mr. Steinhardt, a billionaire antiquities collector who was made to...
