Art World An Audio History of the AIDS Epidemic Will Play All Month Long in New York to Mark the 40-Year History of the Crisis David Wojnarowicz and Larry Kramer are among those whose voices can be heard. By Brian Boucher, 1 day ago
Art World Havana Officials Reached a Historic Agreement With Protesters Over Artistic Freedom. Then Cuba’s President Denounced the Deal The culture minister met with Tania Bruguera and other artists for hours over the weekend. By Brian Boucher, 1 day ago
Art World A Remorseful Young American Has Returned an Ancient Artifact She Stole on Vacation in Italy to Give Her Boyfriend A package with the pilfered stone showed up recently at the National Roman Museum. By Brian Boucher, 2 days ago
Art World A $145 Million Collection of Works by Warhol, Rothko, and Hirst Is at the Center of London’s Largest-Ever Divorce Battle Tatiana Akhmedova accuses her husband and son of conspiring to hide the art from her. By Brian Boucher, 2 days ago
Art World Archaeologists Just Discovered Tens of Thousands of Ultra-Realistic Ancient Rock Paintings in the Colombian Amazon The Colombian territory has been newly opened up to exploration. By Brian Boucher, 2 days ago
Art World The Aspen Art Museum Invited an Artist to Reimagine Its Gift Shop. Now, It’s a Bazaar Selling Fake Teeth and $50,000 Drawings Artist Jonathan Berger took inspiration from offbeat New York City shops that bear the imprint of the owner’s personality. By Brian Boucher, 3 days ago
Art World A Shanghai Gallerist Is Opening a Robot-Filled Production Studio to Help Artists Realize the High-Tech Projects of Their Dreams Will Jung Lee's Miralab foster a Chinese Jeff Koons or Takashi Murakami? By Brian Boucher, 3 days ago
Art World While Installing Her Show at a Canadian Museum, an Artist Discovered a Looted Statue in the Collection. Now, It’s Headed Back to India During her research for an exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Divya Mehra developed suspicions about the Hindu sculpture. By Brian Boucher, Nov 24, 2020
Art World Four Long-Lost Sketches by a Teenage John Constable, Forgotten for 200 Years and Found in a Scrapbook, Are Heading to Auction The drawings were found in a book that was tucked in a family album. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Politics In a Landslide Decision, Workers at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Have Become the Latest Major US Museum Staff to Unionize Museums employees across the country have been unionizing in the past several years. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Art World Archaeologists at Pompeii Have Discovered the Bones of What May Have Been a Master and a Slave Killed by the Eruption of Vesuvius The two men may have been trying to escape the city. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Art World An Underwater Sculpture Park Coming to Miami Beach Is a Stark Warning About What Climate Change May Bring The underwater sculptures will form a kind of reef to help regrow damaged coral. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Art World The Investigative Art Collective Forensic Architecture Has Issued a Report on What Led to the Devastating Blast in Beirut The group has published the first full account of the explosion in a 15-minute video pieced together from an array of materials. By Brian Boucher, Nov 20, 2020
Art World The MFA Houston Cleared Countless Hurdles to Build Its Dazzling $385 Million Expansion. Now, It’s Finally About to Open Its Doors The new facility houses a significant collection of Latino and Latin American artists built by curator Mari Carmen Ramírez. By Brian Boucher, Nov 20, 2020
Art World The Director of Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center Has Resigned Following an Investigation Into Complaints That She Fostered a Toxic Workplace Some 30 employees have left the museum since Susan Dackerman took the helm. By Brian Boucher, Nov 19, 2020
