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,...
Sep 22, 2023 | News & Trending
AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, according to a new ruling by a federal judge, and the consequences may be broad. The ruling is the result of a lawsuit brought several months ago against the U.S. Copyright Office by one Stephen Thaler. His aim is to list...
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...
Aug 14, 2023 | Culture, News & Trending
Nero’s theater has been discovered in Rome, during excavations for a new hotel near the Vatican. A new Four Seasons hotel is being erected on religious land in Rome, and during excavations under what will be its gardens, an ancient theater was discovered. The...
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...
Jul 22, 2023 | Art, Music, News & Trending
Haptic suits are here to give deaf and hard-of-hearing people a new way to enjoy live music. Not Impossible Labs is an organization focused on using technology in various forms to increase accessibility, tackle food insecurity, and protect human rights. “By packing...
