It’s been ten years since Tate Britain last hung up its permanent collection, and in that time museums have had something of an accountability. Widespread public and critical opinion has …
Interior Design
How star architects can – and should – live up to their responsibility to integrate suicide prevention into museum design
Content Warning: This article is about suicide. A month ago, a friend of mine committed suicide in circumstances that still seem terribly unreal. This friend who was a talented poet, …
Extraordinary wristwatch belonging to China’s last emperor sold for $6.2 million, setting multiple auction records
After lots of fanfarePhillips made $6.6 million in its Imperial Patek Philippe direct sale in Hong Kong, tmost of which comes from the star lot, a historic Patek Philippe reference …
Over 300 community members turn out to clean up the vandalized Tschabalala Self sculpture at the De La Warr Pavilion in the UK
The community of Bexhill-on-Sea in the UK rallied around the artist Tschabalala Selfwith hundreds of volunteers showing up over the weekend to help restore his bronze sculpture to the De …
Artist Trevor Paglen sounds the alarm about our new era of ‘psy-ops capitalism’ in reality check show at Pace Gallery
Do you remember “the dress” from 2015? For a few weeks that year, a low res image of a random dress fomented a seemingly inescapable internet debate over whether his …
In an unconventional match, the UK’s oldest cathedral has recruited graffiti guru Ant Steel for its artist-in-residence scheme
Ant Steel is not your typical graffiti artist. He’s not one to scale walls or stealthily paint street corners under cover of darkness. Steel asks permission to paint. Always. He …
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Lady Lilith” was an infamous symbol of vanity. Here are 3 facts about this alluring Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece
In the cultural ether of Victorian England, Lilith – a former Talmudic seductress and the mythical first wife of Adam – emerged as a figure of renewed fascination with popular …
Washington-based artist who falsely claimed Indigenous heritage to sell his work has been sentenced to 18 months
A Washington state-based artist has been sentenced to 18 months federal probation for violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act (IACA) after falsely posing as a Native American to sell …
A 2,000-year-old gold Greek stater just sold for $6 million at auction, making it the most expensive ancient coin ever sold
A private collector has spent a pretty penny to get his hands on a 2,000-year-old gold Greek coin. Known as the Panticapaeum stater, after the ancient Greek city in modern-day …