Dec 20, 2021 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
Federal charges have been brought against two artists in Washington state for falsely claiming to be Native American. Two separate but very similar cases have been brought against the artists Lewis Anthony Rath and Jerry Chris Van Dyke. It’s a crime in the...
Dec 13, 2021 | Art, Donations, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Peter Lynch has donated his art collection to Boston College, a gift of 30 works worth over $20 million together. Lynch is the vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research co, an investment company, where he was hired in 1966 because he caddied for the...
Dec 6, 2021 | Art, Gallery, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Stolen art and antiquities have been a core part of the New York art world literally as long as the city has existed. That’s coming to light, day by day. Not all art theft is Mission Impossible-style heists or burglaries in the night. Most of it is simply...
Nov 29, 2021 | Art, Auctions, Culture, New York, News & Trending
The fall art auctions in New York City are always worth a watch, and this year they’ve blown away old records. A surge in global wealth among the already-wealthy and an urge to lock money into inflation-resistant investments like fine art have been the major...
Nov 22, 2021 | Art, Culture
Hong Kong’s newest art museum is already feeling a bit of pressure. The M+ Art Museum in Hong Kong opens this week, a 700,000 square foot temple to contemporary art. Debuting with over 8,000 works, it is one of the world’s largest and most representative...
Nov 12, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Music, News & Trending
Broken Covers is maybe one of the most unique album collections in the world – it consists of only the very worst. Not the worst music – the collector, Steve Goldman, admits he hasn’t listened to most of his finds. No, he’s collecting the worst album art...
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...