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, Nov 30, 2020
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, Nov 30, 2020
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, Nov 30, 2020
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 & Tech 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 RamĂrez. 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
Art World Billionaire Sheldon Solow Allegedly Gamed the Tax System for Years With His Inaccessible Art Museum. Now His Widow Will Open It to the Public The real estate magnate’s holdings are rich with works by major artists including Basquiat, Miró, Matisse, and Picasso. By Brian Boucher, Nov 19, 2020
Law & Politics Six Artists Are Suing a Property Owner for Painting Over Beloved Murals at a Famed San Francisco Gay Bar During Pride Month The artists are suing under the Visual Artists Rights Act, which allows for up to $150,000 per destroyed artwork. By Brian Boucher, Nov 18, 2020
Art World A Fire Has Devastated Jacob’s Pillow, Destroying a Historic Theater at the Massachusetts Avant-Garde Dance Haven No one was hurt in the blaze. By Brian Boucher, Nov 17, 2020
Art World As MoMA Rehangs a Full Third of Its Collection, the Art of the Internet Age Takes Center Stage The museum has rehung a third of the 60 galleries devoted to its collection. By Brian Boucher, Nov 17, 2020