Dec 20, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, New York
A gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace in England in 2019, and four men have been charged with maybe the world’s funniest theft. The gold toilet is an artwork named “America.” The artist, Italian Maurizio Cattelan, made it in 2016 out of solid 18-karat...
Sep 28, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Bélizaire, an enslaved black teenage boy, has been restored to a painting from which he was erased, now on display at the Met. Bélizaire was a household slave of the Freys, a wealthy white family living in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the mid-1800s. In 1837,...
Jun 5, 2023 | Art, New York, News & Trending
The Vessel in New York City remains indefinitely closed, after measures fail to prevent a fourth suicide on the art structure in only four years. The Vessel is the centerpiece of the Hudson Yards urban development, a 150-foot-tall assembly of 154 interconnected...
May 15, 2023 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Two murals thought lost from the Empire State Building have been found on an antiques and design website. Winold Reiss, a German-born American artist from the 1920s and 30s, painted eight art deco murals in 1938 to decorate the Longchamps, a restaurant in the ground...
Mar 29, 2023 | Culture, New York, News & Trending
A Hebrew Bible over a millennia old is going up for auction, and Sotheby’s hopes it will sell for at least $30 million. The Codex Sassoon is 1,100 years old. It’s handwritten on parchment and leather-bound, and a nearly-complete copy of the Hebrew Bible....
Jan 11, 2023 | Art, Culture, Music, New York, News & Trending
Opera star Sonya Yoncheva is launching a record label to try to connect her art to the new generation. Sonya Yoncheva, 41, is a soprano from Bulgaria, and has sung in many of the largest operatic venues and productions of the last ten years. In 2021 alone, she sang in...
