Oct 31, 2022 | Art, News & Trending, Organizations
Monet painting “Meules” (“Haystacks”) wasn’t damaged, in the latest food-based activist protest stunt. The climate activist group Letzter Generation (Last Generation) visited the Museum Barberini, just outside Berlin. Once inside, they put on workvests, and...
Oct 24, 2022 | Culture, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
The Hamptons has a long list of art offerings for a nice weekend away from New York City. On the far eastern end of Long Island, New York, the Hamptons has been an artistic and privileged retreat since before the Civil War. These days, it is wide open to tourists,...
Oct 17, 2022 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
Damien Hirst burns 1000 of his own signature paintings, and he says he’ll burn thousands more to make his point about the value of art. “The Currency” is a project that Hirst began six years ago. He painted 10,000 unique paintings, all abstract works of colored...
Oct 10, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
SEE MONSTER is one of the UK’s largest art installations, built and planted on a mega-platform standing on the beach of Weston-super-Mare. The massive oil rig structure was once a gas platform n the North Sea. Weighing 450-tonnes, it was brought by barge to...
Oct 3, 2022 | Film, News & Trending
Abigail Disney puts out a documentary criticizing the legacy of her family, after years of outspoken disagreement. Abigail Disney is the granddaughter of company co-founder Roy Disney, Walt Disney’s brother and the numbers man behind the whole organization. For...
Sep 26, 2022 | Art, Music, New York, News & Trending
The Met Opera season opens for 2022, with a lushly dark staging of a play written over 200 years ago. “Medea” by Luigi Cherubini and François-Benoît Hoffman premiered in Paris in 1797, and turned heads then. It’s based on a much older play, written in the 400s...
Sep 12, 2022 | Art, Music, News & Trending
Nirvana wins a lawsuit over their 1991 Nevermind album cover, brought by the man who was featured on it as an infant. The cover of Nevermind by Nirvana, featuring a nude infant with nothing censored underwater in a pool being tempted by a dollar on a fishhook, was...
Sep 5, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
The Guelph Treasure art dispute between a German museum and the heirs of Jewish art dealers has been dismissed by a U.S. court for a second time, over jurisdictional issues. The Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure, is a 200 million euro hoard of silver and gold church...
Aug 29, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
Michael Heizer has spent 50 years completing his massive art installation, “City”, and now he’s opening it to the public. Michael Heizer began building “City” in 1970, out in the desert of Nevada. It may be the largest contemporary artwork in the world, built on...
