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...
Sep 20, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
The Met Gala looks like a ludicrous circus, if you don’t know what it’s about. The celebrity elite dressing in outlandish extravagance and impracticality, just to eat dinner and take pictures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tickets are $30,000 a seat,...
Jun 25, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Two masterwork paintings recovered almost a decade after a 2012 art heist, according to Greek police. In January 2012, “Woman’s Head” by Pablo Picasso and “Mill” by Piet Mondrian were stolen in a lightning quick raid on the National Gallery of Greece, in Athens....
Jun 11, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
It’s finally happening – The Obama portraits are going on tour. And they’re starting at the Art Institute of Chicago. Unveiled in 2018, the official state portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have been a large draw in the National Portrait Gallery in...
May 21, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
In Giverny, France is a garden that much of the world would recognize. The water lilies of the Japanese-inspired lake and gardens inspired the man who lived there – none other than the impressionist master Claude Monet. For forty-three years from 1883 to 1926, the...
