Now in Her Eighties, Huguette Caland Is Celebrated for Her Sensual, Feminist Artartsy.net - Tess Thackara Huguette Caland, Untitled, circa 1970. Courtesy Huguette Caland.When Huguette Caland’s father died, she responded in vivid red oil paint. Cancer/ …
British Museum British Museum workers came out in support of a trustee who resigned.artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton The British Museum. Photo by Ham, via Wikimedia Commons.British Museum workers have come out in support of Ahdaf Soueif, the former museum trustee …
Mick Jagger Mick Jagger is starring in a new, “erotic neo-noir” art heist movie.artsy.net - Wallace Ludel Mick Jagger performs at a Rolling Stones concert in 2007. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images.Mick Jagger is slated to star in a new art heist thriller …
Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art received a gift of 45 works of African contemporary art.artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton Chéri Samba, Water Problem, 2004. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York.The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has received a trove of 45 …
Art The Cape Cod Town That Became an Inclusive Haven for Artistsartsy.net - Alina Cohen George Tooker and Paul Cadmus, Provincetown, ca. 1945. PaJaMa Keith de Lellis GalleryThe light and natural, coastal beauty of Provincetown, on the tip …
Play buttonFlickr How James Turrell Transforms the Sky into Artartsy.net - Kelsey Ables James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion. Courtesy of Rice University Moody Center for the Arts.In a …
Sotheby's Sotheby’s shareholders sued the auction house to stop Patrick Drahi’s acquisition bid.artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton Sotheby’s evening sale of post-war and contemporary art in New York in May 2019. Photo courtesy Sotheby’s.Two Sotheby’s shareholders are suing the …
Art Mega-Collector Dakis Joannou Turned a Remote Greek Island into an Art Meccaartsy.net - Nate Freeman On a Monday in late June, after the Art Basel fair in Basel, Switzerland, the billionaire collector Dakis Joannou docked his yacht in the small …
Art Marisa Merz, a key member of Italy’s Arte Povera movement, died at age 93.artsy.net - Wallace Ludel Marisa Merz with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, which she won at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Photo by Barbara Zanon/Getty Images.Marisa …
Art Four more artists withdrew from the Whitney Biennial.artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton View of the Whitney Museum of American Art from Gansevoort Street. Photo by Ed Lederman, 2015, courtesy the Whitney Museum.On Saturday, a day after …
Art The Glamorous Chinese Restaurant That’s Served the Art World for 50 Yearsartsy.net - Julia Wolkoff Andy Warhol, Portrait of Michael Chow, 1981. © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New …
Artists Understanding Vermeer’s Mysteries, beyond “Girl with a Pearl Earring”artsy.net - Alina Cohen Girl with a Pearl Earring, ca. 1665. Johannes Vermeer Mauritshuis, The HagueOnly about 34 canvases survive from Johannes Vermeer’s enigmatic oeuvre (a …
West Africa Benin received a $22.5-million loan to build a museum for the royal statues being restituted by France.artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton The Royal Palaces of Abomey. Photo by Karalyn Monteil, © UNESCO.Benin has received a €20 million ($22.5 million) loan from the French Development …
Louvre Abu Dhabi The Louvre will offer luxury cruises in the Adriatic Sea and Persian Gulf.artsy.net - Wallace Ludel The Ponant cruise ship Le Lyrial in Venice. Photo by VWPICS/Nano Calvo/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.The Louvre has announced its latest …
Neil Armstrong The Smithsonian has restored the space suit Neil Armstrong wore during the Moon landing.artsy.net - Nate Freeman This space suit was worn by astronaut Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first man on the Moon on July 20, 1969. It …
Whitney Museum Four artists demanded their works be removed from the Whitney Biennial.artsy.net We were angry when we learned of Kanders’ role as CEO of Safariland, a company that manufactures tear gas and other weapons of repression. At the …
Play buttonArt The Objects That Defined 1980s Youth Cultureartsy.net - Scott Indrisek E.T. move poster. Courtesy of the Willis Museum.Everyone’s 1980s are a little bit different. As someone who was born in 1981, it was the decade of my …
Art The Many Faces of Ecstasy in Artartsy.net - Wallace Ludel Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647–52. Via Wikimedia Commons..The truest depictions of ecstasy in art exist in the muddled …
Art A $1-million grant will support a major exhibition featuring more than two dozen MacArthur “genius grant” winners.artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Obodo (Country/City/Town/Ancestral Village), 2018. Installation view at MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist, …
Graffiti Despite Graffiti’s Global Popularity, Cities Still Criminalize Itartsy.net - Elisa Shoenberger Mural by JC Rivera, Chicago. Photo by Terence Rivera, via FlickrStreet art and graffiti have become big business in the art world. In October 2018, …
Art A collector who was duped into selling a Brancusi for $100,000 is suing for $200 million.artsy.net The New York Post has the details of a strange and potentially juicy lawsuit between a New York collector and a man who claimed to be a representative …
Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei won his lawsuit against a Volkswagen dealer and was awarded $258,000.artsy.net Ai created the work for World Refugee Day and it was installed at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Coppenhagen from June 20 to October 1, 2017. In an …
Tate Modern The Tate museums declared a “climate emergency” and pledged to reduce their carbon footprints.artsy.net The directors of the four branches of the Tate museums group—Tate Britain’s Alex Farguharson, Tate Modern’s Frances Morris, Tate Liverpool’s Helen …
Art The Most In-Demand Artists at Art Fairs in the First Half of 2019artsy.net - Benjamin Sutton Jeff Koons and KAWS dominated the conversation during this year’s spring auctions, but Artsy data shows that Yayoi Kusama was the artist most …
Bernard Arnault The French mega-collector Bernard Arnault is now the second-richest man in the world.artsy.net For the first time in years, Bill Gates has been knocked out of the top two perches on the list of the richest people on Earth. Shares of the luxury …
Art The Louvre removed the Sackler name from its galleries.artsy.net The Louvre has officially removed the Sackler name from its galleries, becoming the first major museum to do so. Since 1997, the museum had been home …
Emoji “Face with tears of joy” is the most popular emoji in the U.S.artsy.net Emoji users in the U.S. can’t get enough of the “face with tears of joy” emoji (😂), according to a survey recently conducted by Adobe, whose …
