Nov 11, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
The Pyramids of Giza have been the site of many things over their 4600 years, and now an art show is set in the sands around them. The first known international art show at the site, “Forever Is Now” is being put on by Art D’Egypte. Art D’Egypte, founded...
Oct 29, 2021 | Art, News & Trending, Organizations
The Museum of Forgeries is equal parts prank, social experiment, and commentary on the nature of art as currency. It’s the latest project by the art and design collective MSCHF (pronounced “mischief”), which purchased an original sketch by Andy Warhol at...
Oct 22, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Art Explora has announced its plans to set sail, quite literally, as a mobile art museum touring the sea in a €32 million Euro sailboat. Art Explora is a French non-profit established in 2019, with the goal of making art more accessible to all. Founded by tech...
Oct 20, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
OnlyFans is not typically the home of fine art, at least by most definitions. But with art museums running into censorship on platforms like Facebook and TikTok, they’ve found a niche to share classic works of art with a new audience. The Vienna Tourist Board...
Oct 13, 2021 | Museums, News & Trending
DNA evidence isn’t usually a part of art theft investigation. But Nils M., a Dutch man, left behind such evidence at not one, but two recent major heists. In March 2020, security footage at the Groninger Museum in Groninger showed a man breaking two glass doors...
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,...
Sep 10, 2021 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Love Is in the Bin” is for sale again, and this time it could net over $5.5 million dollars. Originally titled “Girl With Balloon,” the painting was a by-the-artist recreation of one of Banksy’s famous graffiti artworks, featuring exactly what it says in the...
Aug 30, 2021 | Art, News & Trending
Bernard Zakheim was a Polish immigrant who came to San Francisco and studied under Mexican muralist and revolutionary Diego Rivera. He painted a series of intricate frescoes detailing the history of medical innovation in California. Painted as a commission for the...
