May 13, 2020 | Art, Articles
In a massive, lightning-strike effort coordinated by the World Customs Organization, Interpol, and Europol, authorities around the world teamed up last fall to attack 300 open investigations into art and artifact theft in over 100 countries. More than 19,000 artworks...
May 6, 2020 | Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The Met to its friends – is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of New York City’s largest tourist attractions, drawing an average of 7.3 million visitors a year, over a third of them international tourists. It...
Apr 24, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring is not one of Vincent van Gogh’s better known works. More realistic than his later, more impressionist pieces like Starry Night, this 1884 painting is dark in moody browns and grays, with sparks of yellow, green, and red...
Apr 23, 2020 | Art, Museums, New York
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), cultural icon of New York City, closed all of its doors on March 12th due to the COVID-19 crisis racking the Big Apple. A responsible decision, even if every day closed feels like it jeopardizes the chances of the non-profit museum...
Apr 17, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Since the middle of March, all performances in Washington State have been canceled, which is obviously disastrous to many artists and organizations. Performances which don’t take place don’t earn, even if they’re only donation-supported. A survey...
Apr 9, 2020 | News & Trending
Shing Yin Khor is an installation artist and sculptor from Malacca, Malaysia, now settled in LA. Their installations, many of them verging on or outright performance art, have been understandably impacted by the current state of the world. Museums all across the...
Apr 1, 2020 | Art, Donations, Exhibitions
The first object in Robert and Betsy Feinberg’s collection of Japanese art was not a fine silk painting or a hand-carved wood fan; it was a $2 poster print of a screen painting of an early Portuguese ship arriving in Japan in the 16th century. They found it in a...
Mar 30, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms are art meant to transport the viewer. Into outer space or the solace of one’s own mind, that’s up to the individual, but one cannot stand in the middle of any of his creations and not feel themselves to be somewhere...
Mar 20, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
“I want to engage kids while they’re sitting at home. I want them to experience art for normalcy. We are all scared, and confused,” said Cassie Stephens in an interview with Good Morning America. Stephens is an art teacher from Franklin Special School District...
Mar 9, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Miniature art is transportive in a way in which perhaps nothing else is. It draws the viewer closer, makes us lean in, tilt from side to side as we try to peer into tiny spaces, trying in some manner to fit ourselves inside. “The magic is in the invitation extended to...
