The artist Beeple donated an NFT work to the Castello di Rivoli contemporary art museum in Turin, deemed too rude for YouTube. Beeple’s work FTX BOARD MEETING, DAY #5676 13.11.2022 …
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Maybe after all there is hope that Venice will survive into the next century. On June 1, for the very first time, at a conference organized by the new Fondazione …
Diego Rivera mural’s $50 million fate uncertain as bankrupt San Francisco Art Institute campus hits the market
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) campus is now available for purchase after the school was seized earlier this year. The institution in financial difficulty closed its doors to new …
A generation ago, public statuary in the UK was neglected. The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) was founded in 1991 to remedy this, and one of its most enduring …
New organization wants to empower US museums to reallocate resources from objects to people
Three years after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which exposed systemic problems in American museums, what has really changed in the field of museums is up for debate. While …
Unesco members vote overwhelmingly, but not unanimously, to readmit the United States
The United States is expected to join Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in July following a special two-day session held at the headquarters of the United …
An exhibition on Belgian avant-garde artist Anna Boch includes an interior scene from her own apartment, with Van Gogh’s Peach trees in bloom hanging on his living room wall. This …
British Romantic artist William Blake called his spooky and frenetic illustrations “prophetic works”, describing the imagination as proof of “human existence itself”. This oracular heritage has found a new anchor …
Fewer than half of California State University campuses comply with federal regulations on Native American restitution, audit finds
Fewer than half of campuses in the California State University system have followed federal guidelines to repatriate Native American remains or cultural objects for more than three decades since the …
This week: In the final episode of this season, James Goodwin, an expert on the art market and its history, tells us what high inflation and high interest rates mean …