Art World Art Industry News: Picasso Museum Workers in Spain Held a Silent Protest to Demand Equal Pay + Other Stories Plus, the U.K. is extending its ivory ban and the Gropius Bau launches an AI program. By Artnet News, May 24, 2023
On View ‘You Really Don’t See Nude Forms Anymore’: Artist Sarah Meyohas on Her Surreal New Holographic Portraits of the Female Body The artist's new show at Marianne Boesky marks her first solo exhibition in the U.S. By Min Chen, May 24, 2023
Art World In an Unconventional Matchup, the U.K.’s Oldest Cathedral Has Recruited Graffiti Guru Ant Steel for Its Artist-in-Residence Program Steel and other community members will create large-scale works for an exhibition in November. By Richard Whiddington, May 23, 2023
On View Artist Trevor Paglen Sounds the Alarm on Our New Era of ‘Psy-Ops Capitalism’ in a Reality-Testing Show at Pace Gallery We're moving from “surveillance capitalism” to an even more manipulative era, the artist said. By Taylor Dafoe, May 23, 2023
Art History Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Lady Lilith’ Was an Infamous Symbol of Vanity. Here Are 3 Facts About This Alluring Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece The influential canvas is currently on view in "The Rossettis" at Tate Britain. By Katie White, May 23, 2023
Pop Culture Did Jeff Bezos Really Immortalize His Girlfriend in a Sculpture on the Bow of His $500 Million Superyacht? The hood ornament bears an uncanny resemblance to Lauren Sánchez. By Vittoria Benzine, May 23, 2023
Law A Washington-Based Artist Who Falsely Claimed Native Heritage to Sell His Work Has Been Hit With an 18-Month Sentence The man, Jerry Chris Van Dyke, sold more than $1,000 worth of carved pendants based on Aleut masks in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. By Taylor Dafoe, May 23, 2023
Crime More Than 300 Community Members Show Up to Clean Tschabalala Self’s Vandalized Sculpture at the U.K.’s De La Warr Pavilion In a malicious act of destruction, someone had covered the statue of a Black woman with white spray paint. By Sarah Cascone, May 23, 2023
Art World A ‘Golden Period’ Stradivari Violin Once Owned by Catherine the Great Could Sell for Millions of Dollars at Auction The violin has been in the collection of no fewer than two Russian Empresses, including Catherine the Great. By Brian Boucher, May 23, 2023
Archaeology A 2,000-Year-Old Chalkstone Receipt, Carved With Customer Names and Prices, Was Just Uncovered in Jerusalem The object might have been carved by a craftsman to keep track of money paid or still owed by his clients. By Adam Schrader, May 23, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: Spain Puts the Finishing Touches on Its Very Fancy $186 Million Royal Museum + Other Stories Plus, climate activists turn the Trevi Fountain black and Kurt Cobain's guitar sells for $600,000. By Artnet News, May 23, 2023
Museums German Museums’ Unexpected New Gambit to Stop Climate Activists From Attacking Their Art? Inviting Them to Drop By The Last Generation group took part in performance art pieces in museums around the country. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 23, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions Is Art Better When You Can Touch It? We Tried an Offbeat Museum Tour That Lets You Get Up Close and Personal With the Exhibits An exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in the U.K. invites visitors to dance with Tang dynasty figurines and share their deepest secrets with a Giacometti. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 23, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions For His First European Institutional Show in a Decade, Art Star Yoshitomo Nara Brings All of His ‘Little Worlds’ to a Major Museum in Vienna The exhibition at the Albertina Modern features more than 400 artworks from the artist's oeuvre. By Vivienne Chow, May 23, 2023
Archaeology Cosmic Ray Scanning Has Revealed a Greek Tomb Hidden Beneath the City of Naples Researchers used a powerful scanning technique that can penetrate through rocks and walls far below the earth's surface. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 23, 2023
