A veritable head-scratcher of an exhibit has landed at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Organized by the artist Shahryar Nashat and criticism Bruce Hainleythe show has no title or press …
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A German court has convicted five men for their involvement in the shocking $119 million Dresden jewelry robbery
THE jewelry theft that shocked the world in 2019 can finally be resolved. Five men, aged 24 to 29, were convicted this morning of breaking and entering the Green Vault …
A new anti-Mafia museum in Italy will immerse visitors in sights, sounds and smells
May 23, 2023 marks 31 years since tensions between the Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra and the Italian government reached an explosive climax. This date will now also mark the opening …
It is no exaggeration to say that the National Picasso Museum in Paris changed my life. I first visited on a school trip when I was 17 and curious about …
Eleventh Hour Fundraiser Saves Santa Fe Art Museum From Closing + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here’s what you need to know on Tuesday, May 16. …
Photographer Edward Burtynsky brings a high-tech scanner to help digitize Inuit art
Between 1950 and 1980, a treasure trove of Inuit art – some 89,000 drawings in total – was created at Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) near the southern tip of Baffin …
Archaeologists digging along a train track in Mexico have found an extremely rare statue of a Mayan deity
Archaeologists excavating construction sites along the New Maya Train Route in Mexico have found a rare statue of the Mayan god K’awiil. The works are part of a salvage mission …
The lowest paid workers in the public art sector in the UK are often those who create the art. This is the sobering conclusion, if not the total surprise, to …
In her studios in Manhattan and Maine, artist Inka Essenhigh creates luminous, ethereal landscapes from buckets of paint and coffee
Inka Essenhigh thinks painting is a private matter. The American artist has two studios, one nestled in the woods of Maine, the other on the fifth floor of an old …
Did Michelangelo have a divine complex? An expert suggested he painted himself in ‘The Creation of Adam’
In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, God stretches out a finger to animate the world’s first man with the spark of life. …