The management of the M+ Museum in Hong Kong has found a clever way to get people to open up about their mental health, through the art of Yayoi Kusama. …
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A University in Idaho Removed My Abortion-Related Art, Strengthening My Resolve to Tell These Stories
One day in 2018, I found myself in a Planned Parenthood clinic in New York City waiting for abortion pills and, as an artist, I was concerned about visualizations. I …
Auctioneer admits helping create fake Basquiats seized by FBI during museum raid
The murky origins of the fake works by Jean-Michel Basquiat that were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last June in a spectacular raid on the Orlando Museum …
Individuals and art institutions can now easily find stolen artwork from their phone. On April 10, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a version based on an application from …
The Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum will be transformed by Jacolby Satterwhite’s kaleidoscopic video installation
One of the Metropolitan Museum’s most iconic spaces, the vast main hall known as the Great Hall, will get a makeover this fall thanks to a new multimedia commission from …
Steve McQueen’s portrait of the head of the Arts Council will be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London
Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen makes his presence felt in London with his must-have Grenfell movie at the Serpentine Galleries (until May 10). McQueen will also cause a stir in …
experts race to preserve ancient Afghan Buddhist heritage site Mes Aynak from copper mining
The Taliban have backed an 18-month conservation project to safeguard the Afghan heritage site of Mes Aynak, a 2,000-year-old Buddhist town at risk of destruction by a long-delayed mining project. …
Movie star Owen Wilson is channeling Bob Ross, the late and legendary 1980s TV painter loved by millions, in a new film called Painting due out next month. Ross, dubbed …
The Art Newspaper: If you could live with just one piece of art, what would it be? Sook-Kyung Lee: It would be Nam June Paik’s tv buddha (1974). It is …
Pace Gallery will mount an exhibition of Picasso’s sketchbooks to mark 50 years since the artist’s death
Picasso’s sketchbooks first appeared in 1986, when the Pace Gallery organized I am the notebook—a groundbreaking exhibition in New York of 45 sketchbooks, which later traveled to museums around the …