PaintingEver Wonder What Happened to All of Bob Ross’s ‘Happy Little Paintings’? More Than 1,100 of Them Are Holed Up in a Virginiaartnet.com - Taylor Dafoe But now a handful of them have been acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Bob Ross painted three versions of every artwork that appeared on …
Art After 30 Years, a Stolen Renaissance Masterpiece Returns to Italy With a Show in the Artist’s Hometownartnet.com - Sarah Cascone Pinturicchio’s missing 'Madonna and Child' has gone on view at the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. It took nearly 30 years, but the Italian police …
Art See Vivian Suter’s New Show at ICA Boston, Inspired by Her Home in the Guatemalan Rainforestartnet.com - Caroline Goldstein The artist's work can also currently be seen throughout New York City. “Vivian Suter” Institution of Contemporary Art, Boston through December 31, …
Art As a Nationalist Fervor Takes Hold in Italy, Foreign Museum Directors Could Be on the Way Outartnet.com - Sarah Cascone Italy began hiring its first foreign museum directors in 2015, but the right-wing government may force them out with counter-reforms. In 2015, Italy …
Art Two Artists Withdraw Their Work From a Show at the Shed in Protest of Billionaire Board Member Stephen Rossartnet.com - Eileen Kinsella A.L. Steiner and Zackary Drucker quietly removed their work to protest Ross's recent Trump fundraiser. Two artists who collaborated on a project on …
Art From ‘The Bachelor’ For Art Boys to a Cringeworthy New Trump Portrait: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Weekartnet.com - Caroline Goldstein Monica King Goes Solo – The veteran of galleries such as Pace and Kasmin is starting her own eponymous gallery in the newly flourishing art mecca of …
ArtA Street Artist’s Portrayal of Larry Bird Will Get a Makeover After the NBA Legend Complained That He Doesn’t Actually Haveartnet.com - Katie White The superstar former Celtics forward was not thrilled with how he was depicted. When a mural of Basketball Hall-of-Famer Larry Bird popped up on the …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoArtA Guardian Arts Editor Sparked a Fury by Suggesting Curators Don’t Need to Be Named in Reviews. Here’s What’s Really atartnet.com - Naomi Rea At the heart of the debate is the matter of curatorial prestige—and pay. An arts editor at the Guardian kicked up a storm this week when he took to …
Sculpture A Giacometti Sculpture Damaged by a Clumsy Cat Was Deemed ‘Worthless’ by Authenticators on a TV Show. Then It Sold for $612,000artnet.com - Taylor Dafoe A new round of experts removed layers of spackling paste and household paint to uncover the Swiss master's signature. Last fall, authentication …
Art Art Industry News: The Star of the Obamas’ First Netflix Movie Is an Art-Collecting Chinese Billionaire + Other Storiesartnet.com - artnet News Plus, Ai Weiwei leaving Berlin for Cambridge and historians are wary of a new statue in Central Park dedicated to the suffrage movement. Art Industry …
Damien Hirst TIME Magazine Names the Shed and a Damien Hirst-Designed Las Vegas Hotel Suite as Among the World’s ‘Greatest Places’artnet.com - Taylor Dafoe Other highlights include the V&A Dundee in Scotland, the Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal, and the Mori Building Digital Art Museum in …
Art Like ‘The Bachelor,’ But for Art Boys? NBC Is Looking to Cast Single Artists for a New Reality Showartnet.com - Caroline Goldstein Back in April, Vanity Fair‘s Rachel Dodes posited something that those of us in the capital-A Art World have known for a long time: Art Boys are so, …
Art‘Comics Were a Way to Communicate’: How Maria Qamar’s Pop Art Charmed Instagram, Mindy Kaling, and Now the New York Artartnet.com - Sarah Cascone The Instagram sensation makes art about the millennial Desi experience. The title of artist Maria Qamar’s first solo show, “Fraaaandship,” comes from …
Archives Trailblazing Art Dealer Andrea Rosen Donates Her Gallery Archives to the Smithsonianartnet.com - Eileen Kinsella The treasure trove of documents shines a light on the 1990s art world. The influential art dealer Andrea Rosen is getting a permanent spot at the …
Art The Estate of Terry Allen Kramer, a Flashy Heiress and Tony-Winning Broadway Producer, Will Hit the Auction Block This Fallartnet.com - Taylor Dafoe Led by works from Picasso, Pissarro, and Matisse, Kramer’s collection is expected to fetch as much as $21 million. Terry Allen Kramer, the late …
Takashi MurakamiTakashi Murakami Has Covered Practically Every Square Inch of a New Hong Kong Art Center With His Colorful Work. See theartnet.com - Kate Brown Takashi Murakami‘s tripped-out universe has touched down in Hong Kong. The 57-year-old artist’s mix of fashion, graphic art, cosplay, and graffiti is …
Play buttonArt‘Being an Artist Is a Pursuit of a Feeling of Freedom’: Watch Avery Singer Combine the Digital and the Analogue to Put Herartnet.com - Caroline Goldstein As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. At the time of her “New York Close Up” …
Art Commissioned by Boris Johnson as the Eiffel Tower of London, Anish Kapoor’s ‘Orbit’ Is Now More Than $15 Million in Debtartnet.com - Sarah Cascone In a failed attempt to draw visitors, the work was re-designed by Carsten Höller to make it the world's longest slide. The mega-sculpture in East …
Art The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Will Soon Be Powered Entirely by Solar Energyartnet.com - Eileen Kinsella The museum has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the effort. The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles is making history with its plan …
Art Art Industry News: A Viral Instagram Hoax Has Been Tricking Famous Artists (But Not Kara Walker) + Other Storiesartnet.com - artnet News Plus, an Australian official questions Yoko Ono's art chops and the MIT Media Lab struggles to free itself from its Jeffrey Epstein ties. Art Industry …
Tribeca Monica King, Who Earned Her Stripes at Pace and Paul Kasmin Galleries, Is Opening Her Own Tribeca Spaceartnet.com - Eileen Kinsella Monica King Contemporary is the latest gallery to open in the neighborhood, which has quickly become a hotbed for dealers. Monica King, a veteran of …
Google Doodle Ever Wonder How All Those Quirky Daily Google Doodles Get Made? We Spoke to the Head of the Projectartnet.com - artnet News It takes a small army of designers and planners to keep the project going. In 1998, Google’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were on their …
ArtThe Museum of Ice Cream Is Opening a Supersized Permanent New York Flagship, With a Three-Story Slide and a ‘Hall of Giantartnet.com - Sarah Cascone New York is about to get a whole lot sweeter. The juggernaut that is the Museum of Ice Cream, which helped kick the pop-up museum trend into high …
Artists The Inexhaustible Gerhard Richter Will Design New Stained Glass Windows for Germany’s Oldest Monasteryartnet.com - Kate Brown The artist will be collaborating with his friend, the composer Arvo Pärt, on the surprise commission for the Benedictine abbey. Just when you think …
Play buttonArt Ariana Grande’s Legal Battle With an Artist Who Claimed Her ‘God Is a Woman’ Video Ripped Off His Candle Paintings Is Overartnet.com - Sarah Cascone Pop star Ariana Grande and artist Vladimir Kush have settled their legal dispute. The singer stood accused of ripping off a pair of Kush’s paintings …
Art The Internet Is Going Bananas With Memes Mocking Pro-Trump Artist Jon McNaughton’s Latest ‘Masterpiece’—See Them Hereartnet.com - Taylor Dafoe The right-wing artist makes the case that history will remember the presidency as... a knockoff Monet? Jon McNaughton, probably the world’s leading …
Art Art Loans Boost Britain’s International Influence. So Why Are Three Major UK Museums Putting Them on Hold?artnet.com - Javier Pes The British Museum and the V&A are among the museums that are halting or cutting back loans. One of the first things the UK’s new arts minister, …
Art Mark di Suvero, Peter Saul, and Others Petition the di Rosa Center Not to Sell Off Its Collection of Bay Area Artartnet.com - Sarah Cascone The center says it can't afford to stay afloat without a major deaccessioning. The di Rosa Collection Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, California, …
Art After 12 Years in Charge of Berlin’s Top Art Museums, Power Director Udo Kittelmann Is Stepping Downartnet.com - Kate Brown The director has raised the international profile of the city's most prestigious museums while continuing to organize big exhibitions. After 12 years …
