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....
Mar 20, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Valparaiso University wants to sell off many of its artworks, but students and faculty disagree. Valparaiso University, a Lutheran institution in Indiana, has a robust art collection in the Brauer Museum of Art on their campus. Among their nearly 3000 pieces are...
Mar 13, 2023 | Art, Culture, News & Trending, Organizations
Ontario police have arrested eight people in connection with the forgery of thousands of artworks by a popular indigenous artist. Norval Morrisseau was a painter from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation in Ontario, Canada. Known as the “Picasso of the...
Mar 6, 2023 | Art, News & Trending
Andy Warhol and his work is at the center of a case which may change the way art and copyright interact. In 2021, an appeals court declared that Andy Warhol, famous pop artist of the 60s and 70s, had illegally appropriated a photograph taken by photographer Lynn...
Feb 27, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
A Jeff Koons sculpture of a balloon dog was shattered at Art Wynwood in Miami by a careless visitor. The famous balloon animals by Jeff Koons look fragile, over-sized sculptures of balloon dogs and rabbits like a clown might make at a street fair. And they are...
Feb 22, 2023 | Art, News & Trending
Calvin and Hobbes author Bill Watterson is back in the storytelling craft, after a 28-year-long hiatus. Watterson has led a quiet life since Calvin and Hobbes, avoiding a public career on the coattails of his creation. He doesn’t sign autographs, speak at...
Feb 13, 2023 | Art, News & Trending
Art for the moon is taking off in March, in the form of an engraving on gold by artist Sacha Jafri. Jafri’s work, “We Rise Together — By the Light of the Moon,” is scheduled to fly into space on a United Launch Alliance rocket powered by...
Feb 6, 2023 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
Ai Weiwei is featured in one of the largest exhibitions in the UK in nearly a decade, with his large scale works on display in the Design Museum in London later this year. Ai Weiwei grew up with his father in political exile, and has always been openly critical of the...
Jan 30, 2023 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
A Hercules fresco from Herculaneum is one of the 60 pieces of illegally trafficked artifacts being returned to Italy by the United States. Dozens of artifacts, between 1500 and 3000 years old, were recovered from private collections in the past few years. Found in...
Jan 23, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending
Reinventing paintings is nothing new. Artists have been riffing off each other’s art since art was invented. It’s a way to use someone else’s ideas to add depth to your own, like quoting someone who inspires you. And no art should be immune from...
