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On Friday Google’s homepage pays tribute to the prolific Philippine artist and activist Pacita Abad, who on this day in 1984 became the first woman to receive the Philippines’s 10 Outstanding Young Men award. Her pioneering painting practice foregrounded overlooked women—Indigenous Filipina, domestic workers from Pakistan, Cambodian refugees. “I … [Read More...]
A California man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for attempting to sell over $6 million worth of forged paintings he claimed were by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. On Wednesday Philip Righter, who resides in West Hollywood, pleaded guilty to wire … [Read More...]
In June, Black Lives Matters protestors in Bristol toppled a monument to 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston. The 18-foot-tall statue was then thrown into the Bristol harbor amid cheers from a crowd of onlookers. Since then, artists and activists have proposed replacements for the sculpture’s empty plinth. … [Read More...]
Jean-Michel Basquiat meets Dr. Martens in the latest collaboration between the artist’s estate and a retailer. On Thursday, the British footwear brand unveiled a new line featuring art from the paintings Dustheads and Pez Dispenser and the album cover for “Beat Bop,” a 1983 single by Rammellzee and K… [Read More...]
Last week major museums and galleries in the United Kingdom, including the Tate galleries and London’s National Gallery, confirmed reopening dates for the summer. But a new survey indicates that the British public may not flock to them once they throw their doors back open. A new survey conducted… [Read More...]
Why protest the detention of immigrants across the United States on Independence Day? When asked that recently, artist Dread Scott responded with a Frederick Douglass quote: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Scott is one among the 80 artists participating in “In Plain Sight,” a … [Read More...]
Italian authorities announced on Wednesday that they have recovered a Banksy work honoring the victims of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks that was stolen from Bataclan concert hall in 2019. The British street artist painted an image of a young girl in mourning on a door of the Parisian music venue after… [Read More...]
Juan Genové, one of Spain’s most celebrated artists and known for his social realist style, died of natural causes on Friday, according to El Pais. He was 89. Over five decades, Genové proved a keen observer of others, often painting crowds from a distance. Genové was born in 1930 in Valencia, Spain, … [Read More...]
In 1863, the Paris Salon, an annual art exhibition sponsored by the French government and the Academy of Fine Arts, received over 5,000 submissions. Acceptance to the Salon was often a career-making achievement, leading to state commissions and notoriety. That year, more than two-thirds were refused by the conservative panel—including … [Read More...]
Merry Norris, a powerhouse in the Los Angeles cultural community and cofounder of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, died Monday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at the age of 80. The cause of death was pneumonia, according to an obituary in the Los Angeles Times. Norris was one … [Read More...]
As the embattled Boy Scouts of America prepare to face an estimated 1,700 lawsuits over allegations of sexual abuse, creditors are taking stock of the organization’s assets. Buried in a bankruptcy filing last week was a listed for its collection of original Normal Rockwell—potentially worth millions of dollars—as an asset that … [Read More...]
“What does it mean to be with you? Saying yes to everything you want?” “Are you with me?” “It’s my body! Even when it rebels.” These were a few of the phrases painted onto the white tablecloths, beside sunsets and seascapes and a pair of purple ovaries, … [Read More...]
Since the 1970s, the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania has displayed Portrait of a Young Woman, a 1632 portrait long attributed to studio assistants in Rembrandt’s workshop. Around two years ago the painting was sent for a routine cleaning to New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where conservationists … [Read More...]
A drawing discovered in a Vienna cathedral may transform art historians’ understanding of a Northern Renaissance artist’s career. According to the Art Newspaper, specialists were alerted to a painting found buried beneath centuries of dirt on the wall above the gift shop at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the … [Read More...]
Unless a British gallery or museum can pay its price tag, a landscape by the seminal English artist Thomas Gainsborough is unlikely to leave the United Kingdom in the near future. The U.K. has barred the export of Going to Market, Early Morning, a 1773 Gainsborough painting that was bought … [Read More...]
Since 1995, the National Gallery in London has been trying to acquire the Italian Baroque painter Orazio Gentileschi’s work The Finding of Moses (ca. early 1630s). At long last, after a fundraising campaign and more than 20 years of trying, the museum has finally bought the artwork. On Wednesday morning, the … [Read More...]
A five-story townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate townhouse at 132 West 11th Street has been in the … [Read More...]
The bust—dubbed Head of Alexander the Great—was seized last February from the New York gallery by the Manhattan district attorney. Read More The post New York Gallery Files Suit to Block Return of Ancient Artifact to Italy appeared first on ARTnews. [Read More...]