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
Art World With Tourism on Hold, the de Young Museum Turned to Its Backyard With an Open-Call Show for Local Artists. The Response Was Epic Curators received an overwhelming response to an open call for work from artists in the San Francisco area. By Brian Boucher, Nov 16, 2020
Art World Tourists Pass This Enigmatic Portrait in Florence Every Day. Now a Scholar Says It Was Probably Carved by Michelangelo Himself Long attributed to the Renaissance master in the popular mind, the carving might actually be by the artist’s hand, says a museum curator. By Brian Boucher, Nov 13, 2020
Art World Turkmenistan’s President Has Installed a 19-Foot-Tall Gold Statue of His Favorite Dog in the Nation’s Capital The sculpture celebrates the Central Asian Shepherd. By Brian Boucher, Nov 13, 2020
Art World England Has Approved a Highway Tunnel Underneath Stonehenge, Overruling Warnings From Cultural Preservationists The $2.2 billion project could remove the sight and sound of passing cars, but critics warn it would do more harm than good. By Brian Boucher, Nov 12, 2020
Art World Archaeologists Have Uncovered an Astounding Ancient Burial Site in Norway. Here’s What It Tells Us About the Prehistoric One Percent At the center of the discovery is a boating vessel in which the dead were placed to guide them safely to the afterworld. By Brian Boucher, Nov 12, 2020
Art World John Waters Has Pledged to Donate His Art Collection to the Baltimore Museum Once He Dies—So Long as It Names Its Bathrooms After Him The gift includes nearly 400 works of art. By Brian Boucher, Nov 11, 2020
Art & Exhibitions All of Your Favorite Memes Are About to Be Recognized as the Works of Art They Truly Are in the First-Ever Memennial Curator can haz your submissions? By Brian Boucher, Nov 11, 2020