Apr 4, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
“Guarding the Art” is a special exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art – one curated entirely by its security team. Some time ago, museum trustee Amy Elias realized that no one spent more time with the art than the guards patrolling the museum. Not the experts, not...
Mar 28, 2022 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Yves Klein’s invisible art sold for pure gold in 1958, and the receipt will sell for half-a-million Euros, according to Sotheby’s. In 1958, French artist Yves Klein set a empty cabinet in an empty room in a Paris art gallery and thousands of people paid to...
Mar 21, 2022 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
Pysanka, Ukrainian egg decorating, is seeing a wave of popularity as a way of connecting with the news. Pysanka (pronounced pi-san-kuh) is a Slavic art form dating back at least to the pre-Christian era. The oldest known example was found recently in Lviv and dated to...
Mar 14, 2022 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum is racing to protect the country’s largest art collection while the Russian invasion advances west towards Lviv. The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum is the largest art museum in Ukraine, a castle-like columned beauty that...
Mar 7, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
Russian artists are speaking to oppose Putin’s war, but may suffer consequences for it. Kirill Savechenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva were the two artists set to represent contemporary Russia in La Biennale di Venezia, the glittering international art-world event...
Feb 28, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
An artificial intelligence won’t be allowed to copyright a work of art, according to the US Copyright Office. In 2019, Steven Thaler attempted to formally copyright a digital painting on behalf of an algorithm he’d made, called the Creativity Machine. The...
Feb 21, 2022 | Art, Gallery, News & Trending
A security guard in a Russian art gallery damaged a million dollar painting by doodling eyes on it, in what is being called “a lapse in sanity.” Anna Leporskaya’s avant-garde painting Three Figures was painted at some time in the 1930s, and features three...
Feb 14, 2022 | Art, Gallery, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Nader Tehrani, the Iranian-born architect of the Melbourne School of Design, will be leading the renovation of the Met’s Ancient Near East and Cypriot galleries. Nader Tehrani has honed his skills in architecture all over the world. He has erected works in...
Feb 7, 2022 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
The Foxes by Franz Marc is predicted to break records when it goes up for sale at auction in March, according to Christie’s in London. The Foxes, a poignant expressionist painting by German painter Franz Marc, was sold under duress by German-Jewish collected...
Jan 31, 2022 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
Picasso heirs are looking to enter the cryptocurrency market in a big way, selling off photos of a never-circulated Picasso original as NFTs. Pablo Picasso’s career was long and incredibly prolific. In the 75 years he spent making art, he produced an estimated...
